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Another freebee set, I don't need.
Another town-wide garage sale Saturday.
I hit the garage sales again this Saturday. I picked up a few items that I thought I could use. An RCA DTV converter with the proper remote, half price after 12:00 PM. A Zenith 9" cube type color set. Another weakness of mine, as I have a few, both remote and manual tuning. I feel they don't take up much space. Finally, a 19" Sanyo, with proper remote, both clean, marked free. I asked the gal if it works. Reply, it works great! Get it to my place, fired it up and a severe vertical underscan. It looked too even, regarding the picture shape. I didn't think, it was a fault in the vertical circuit. Rather than look for component fault, I looked up the service menu access code and looked at all the parameters. The vertical size showed a Zero value, where all the others showed some kind of a value. Pressed the volume up and watched the results. The picture spread properly at the value 30. I don't how that could have happened! |
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Hmmm... weird in fact !..
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You gotta keep getting the Zeniths til you got all the
colors & the AC-DC model. Neat little sets but not much fun at component level. Sanyos e-prom probably zapped by static. Same idea as with the infamous RCA CTC175 etc chassii. Hash from bad grounds corrupted data. 73 Zeno |
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Regarding the Zenith cube set, that one, I had to buy. It's a plain Jane white job, as are a few of my others. One of my other white cubes, seems to be discolored and I was thinking about spray-painting it metalic red or something. I have one Heath branded model that, IIRC is an AC-DC job. BTW, what colors did they come in? |
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The AC/DC was only in black IIRC & came with a sun screen. Quasar also sold the same type earlier but only had a preset tuner. Otherwise an very nice set. The remotes had a matching hand unit shaped like the TV & matching color. Both were BIG sellers especially at Xmas for the kids rooms. 73 Zeno |
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I was running my latest cube purchase, while I was working with my power tools. Saws, drywall driver, etc so I cranked up the volume so I could hear it. The sound is remarkable, compared to the newer offerings. |
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