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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42
Well people were blasting the "crappy Chroma demoduator" used in the "magget box" When I posted about this on FB vintage TV forum, with stuff like ," I hated the Magnavox tube sets! Chroma demoduator was crap, could not get good flesh tones."
I cant really say, but i DO like the CTC-16XL better, and this is the only and first set i have seen using a 6MK8.  |
Yes they had that reputation. There is a switch we called the brownuator SW.
If on it gives gives a brown cast to the color.You have to also watch the
plate resistors to the demods. Motorolas & Sylvanias too ! Bottom line
is turn off the auto color switches, AFT is the only one to use IMHO.
To be fair Zenith did something similar. Early " Custom" series sets
( 9-181 main board ) that replaced the S3 ( 9-160) had a puky orange pix.
Then better sets came out & had a great pix. A few minutes in the
manuals gave the reason. Better sets had auto color, cheap sets did not !
Turning off the auto color gave the good pix, turning it on gave the orange
pix. So from that point on we modified every one without auto color we sold
& the pix was as good as any.
Told the Boston service rep about it & he told me "this conversation never
happened" and DONT tell Chicago !
enuf fer now
Zeno
LFOD !