New Zealand made TV sets

[AndrewM]

Daro - Thanks for the kind offer for a scan of the manual but that won't be necessary. I'm lucky to have a full set of manuals for this chassis. If you happen to find a chassis in your travels, I'd be very interested in having it.

Glen - The Thorn 4000 (4KA) proved so unreliable in Australia that AWA-Thorn started to use imported Mitsubishi chassis for all their TV's from around 1976 on. We missed out on the later English Thorn models.
The Australian Philips K9 had a earthed chassis with a isolated switchmode power supply. Your live chassis K9 must have been a European import.
Did your Pyes use T series chassis numbers? The last black and white sets here used a T27 chassis. The first colour chassis was the T29. It underwent some revisions for a couple of years and then Pye switched to using Philips chassis (KT2, KT3 and KL9) until they were shut down along with Kriesler around 1980/1981.

[Glenz75]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

Daro - Thanks for the kind offer for a scan of the manual but that won't be necessary. I'm lucky to have a full set of manuals for this chassis. If you happen to find a chassis in your travels, I'd be very interested in having it.

Glen - The Thorn 4000 (4KA) proved so unreliable in Australia that AWA-Thorn started to use imported Mitsubishi chassis for all their TV's from around 1976 on. We missed out on the later English Thorn models.
The Australian Philips K9 had a earthed chassis with a isolated switchmode power supply. Your live chassis K9 must have been a European import.
Did your Pyes use T series chassis numbers? The last black and white sets here used a T27 chassis. The first colour chassis was the T29. It underwent some revisions for a couple of years and then Pye switched to using Philips chassis (KT2, KT3 and KL9) until they were shut down along with Kriesler around 1980/1981.

Hi Andrew, thats interesting about Pye as I had a look at some of my b/w service manuals and they are also using T suffixes for the chassis type, ie T18, T20, T25, T27 etc. I wonder if they are the same as your versions?
Our colour Pye sets started from CT101,102,103 and so on. Some of the later Pyes like your ones also used the KT3/KL9 and even the Philips CTO chassis right up until the late 1980's so the Pye name must have carried on a bit longer here than in Australia...

G.