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13" GE color TV from 1982
A friend gave me this 13" GE color set from 1982, and it uses the 13AC-F "griplett special" chassis. This is the upper scale version with a non-remove cable ready tuner and I recall these had a good picture. I think these were better than the 13BC chassis that replaced it, which was actually sort of a hybrid set that used a GE tuning assembly that was paired with a Matsushita mainboard.
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Very cool looking old set, nice score.
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Had one as a teenager, good set for the Nintendo of the day.
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Our every encounter with them was a 'griplet nightmare' or Portacolor from hell in trying to pin down the intermittencies.
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Great sets once you labored over them with a hot iron for awhile. Not difficult to service; but time consuming. The main filter cap would sometimes also go bad causing jailbars or a sensitivity to mains sag. Other that that, I can attest to the fact that the electronic tuner was more reliable than an RCA of the time (CTC-117 era).
The CRTs never go bad. 13VAMP22*. I have a high hour example and the tube can still blind you without defocusing on high contrast scenes. Just a benefit of GE making their own tubes....EIA 188. When Sylvania made their own, those were always superb as well. Last edited by zenith2134; 06-21-2022 at 03:38 PM. Reason: *that is definitely the wrong tube number for these. My mind cannot recall the correct one offhand. |
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Classy looking set!
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I liked the idea that they always included the schematic under a removable cover on the back. Did GE foresee that the set would need a lot of service?
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Funny thing is if it were not for the griplets the AA, AB, AC & EC were as a reliable sets as you could find. Well when sales dept gets in the way bad crap happens, remember those 18" Sylvania AC cords ? 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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They sure did sell a pile of them. Most likely parents bought them for their kids thinking GE was a reliable brand.
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