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Old 06-24-2012, 08:49 PM
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Location: I'm in San Diego, but lived in Hong Kong for a long time
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Actually.......

I wish I could FIND the thing, but my TV repair class in Hong Kong...we had a "learning set" in the classroom that WAS a huge 25" plexiglass console color set. Even BETTER than what you imagine it looks like, it also had "fail modules" and switches allover the chassis to "induce" problems. I so wanted to HAVE one of those!

You could "crack" different parts of the yoke with pushbutton switches, kill the HOT....take caps "out of circuit", etc. What was REAL cool was the pushbuttons were POPO...so you could NOT tell what position the switches were in. This thing made a PHENOMENAL tool for testing us pupils. Profesor would configure the set in some failed mode...and pupil gets to try and figure out whats up.

Had NO idea what sort of chassis it was, but we had two of those sets. One of them was a tube set....both color. The solid state set had most of it's silicon in SOCKETS so these things must have cost a FORTUNE with all the identical little "fail modules"
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