rca xl-100 and works in the drawer commercials

[kramden66]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2Hgu_kDss

rca is at 57:00 , quasar around 2:02

gotta love the life size tubes

[Telecolor 3007]

You mean 2:02:xy, not minute 2:02. It's around 2:02:24. The "Quasar" was solid state, "R.C.A." XL-100 was hybrid
I like the lady from 1:58:51

[AlanInSitges]

XL100 were definitely solid state, as was that particular Quasar. Someone here recently told me they later added a cheaper 4-tube hybrid WID set as well.

[Yarehobbyso$]

We sold both of those brands (and later, Philco, and Zenith). The RCA XL-100 stood for 100% solid state. The Quasar I was solid state, the Quasar II went back to hybrid with four tubes. Had to love all the bad connections in the 'works in the drawer'. I've still got boards or modules for those; most problems came down to pin contacts, not the board itself.
Dan

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Yarehobbyso$

We sold both of those brands (and later, Philco, and Zenith). The RCA XL-100 stood for 100% solid state. The Quasar I was solid state, the Quasar II went back to hybrid with four tubes. Had to love all the bad connections in the 'works in the drawer'. I've still got boards or modules for those; most problems came down to pin contacts, not the board itself.
Dan

I've heard that the XL in XL-100 stood for eXtended Life, and it was borrowed from older nomenclature such as the CTC-16XL.

[Jeffhs]

I have an RCA 19" CTC-185 TV, bought new in 1999, which also has "XL-100" and next to it "Commercial SKIP", at the upper left corner of the cabinet, above the CRT. I spoke over the phone with an RCA representative several years later and found out that "XL-100", as used on RCA TVs of 1990s-21st century vintage (as mine is), did not stand for "Extended Life" but was simply a model designation. I haven't seen this on today's RCA Roku TVs or other RCA flat screen sets; perhaps the "XL-100" designation was dropped, either at the turn of the last century or when RCA began marketing Roku sets. It may have been that RCA felt it no longer had to promote its 100-percent solid-state TV design after the year 2000 (and certainly after the DTV transition, when CRT sets were declared all but obsolete), although this is purely conjecture on my part.

BTW, I am not at all sure if the XL-100 branding had anything to do with the RCA CTC-16XL (I doubt it very much), but it is certainly possible. As another person here mentioned, however, the "XL-100" designation originally was used when RCA began building its TVs with 100-percent solid-state components, no tubes whatsoever except the CRT and the HV rectifier (though I believe by the time the original "XL-100" chassis came out, the latter may have been replaced with SS components, namely a high-voltage solid-state diode and associated circuitry).

[DavGoodlin]

I recall Colortrak replacing XL-100 for the more expensive 1976 models, yet XL-100 was applied to all the post-1975 lower priced 19" and smaller TV's. Both names lasted into the late 1980s