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TinCanAlley, you said that many TVs before the 60s did not have transformers, that is somewhat backwards. It is more true that most TV before the mid 50s had transformers. The reason for having a design without a transformer is weight and cost. The more portable sets from the mid 50s on wanted to reduce weight so a transformerless design was used. Also tubes that worked on lower B+ became available so rectifying the line voltage or using a voltage doubler would work. Of course reducing the cost was always a factor.
Large screen consoles tended to have transformers. This all changed however when solid state (transistor) TV came out, the transistors had to have a much lower voltage to operate on, a transformer was the only efficient way to get that. When on the subject of isolation transformers be careful of confusing chassis ground with the power ground (earth) and power neutral. |
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Even on properly designed transformer powered sets if a primary to secondary short develops that can be bad for your scope (and the set often will work fine despite the short). I'm fairly sure I've had that happen before. Sometimes I'll measure AC voltage between my scope ground and chassis onna set before connecting them just to be safe.
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Don't know if this has ever been true in the USA but in the UK/Europe there were some sets (1980s?) that used a bridge rectifier and connected one side of the output to the chassis. Hence the chassis was always live (hot) at half mains (line) potential. Definitely need an isolating transformer to do any useful work on those.
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