GE Portacolor Chassis AB-E

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...and it gets more detailed. The H-4/HE Chassis was in production in late 76 / early 77, making the tube Porta Color the true last Porta Color. Apparently, a lot of tube stock, tooling still in place, and multiple outlets (Western Auto, Packard Bell, Canada?) led GE to make a last production run with available parts. Most were left from a cancellation of a 1974 (production in 75) WT Grant contract to make Bradford-badged Porta Color sets.

So let's see....Packard Bell, WT Grant, Truetone and who else used the HD/H-4 chassis? HE chassis was GE-specific, as I am told.

[andy]

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Originally Posted by andy

GE made a lot of strange decisions over the years. I have a Bradford branded Portacolor that must have been made just before that cancellation.

GE made Bradford Porta Colors using all chassis except the HE and 10QA chassis, looking through the Sams.

Originally Posted by andy

I have two 10JA sets, and both appear to have been real dogs. They do produce a good picture though.

One had a bad solder connection on the CRT heater transformer that probably caused intermittent problems since it was new. It also had an intermittent mixer transistor in the VHF tuner which would work for days, then stop. Just touching a test probe to one of the tuner test points would make it spring to life, but it would eventually fail again.

If it was the one with a MOSFET mixer, blame the NEC (Japanese) mixer transistors made for GE. I forget the EP15X number, but we saw a couple of those. Bitch to get at in the tuner! The blue sheet warned about the time, suggesting a tuner swap if the time went beyond an hours' time. It also affected the bigger screen JA sets and one MA chassis/model.

[andy]

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