'89 Panasonic console score
 

Set is long gone. CRT had a massive scratch and a couple of small ones.

Oh noes! The far flung futuristic year of 1989? You'll get laughed at and/or ridiculed for liking a TV made after about 1982 here.

I kid, I kid. Mostly.

Nice score. My friend also had Panasonic console, but it looked nothing like that. No stand, and the control door was at the top. It was a great set though. Glad someone appreciates the more modern consoles and sets in general.

That looks like a high end set. Oh, and I understand how it can take awhile to get to things. There's stuff over here that's been waiting on me for 15-20 years to get to it.

I wonder if this set was available only in Canada? I haven't seen the full USA Panasonic line; but, most of the Panasonic/Quasar consoles from this time period that are seen in the USA are rather crappy. Your set looks to be several notches above what I'm used to seeing from Panasonic in the way of consoles.

^ The previous owners said it was a $900 set when new, I think. I saw a Panasonic console that had been curbed very recently. It was a '90, a bit taller than wide, particle board cabinet with moisture damage at the bottom, mono audio input, control door missing I believe, three of the four casters missing. Finally, it had been placed there upside-down.

@ Rod Beauvex: Thank goodness I have the '82 RCA ColorTrak then, my saving grace. ;) Normally I wouldn't bother with such a recent set, unless it's a well-made console like this one, which makes it look older to me in a way.

Well, as I said, I'm glad there is someone else who appreciates the later consoles. I think there was some great sets made after the early 80s. I think by about the mid nineties, the technology had matured, and there was just nowhere else to really go.

Nowhere to go but down anyway. My 2005 Sanyo 20-inch flat-screen CRT TV, which was curbed after I got my first vintage TV set up and verified working, had a weird problem that caused parts of the screen to discolor with a blank blue screen (always) or a static image (often). This would clear up with anything on play though.

This console TV, in its nearly-new condition, is a wish finally fulfilled after about 2 decades. One day when I was in my early double-digits, I went to Tel-Star TV, which was just down the street from me at the time, and checked out a new console TV. The one I have is slightly older of course, but close enough. Hopefully I can get an original remote and a new control panel door, or at least fix the one that's there.

I think you should still consider a full recap, just to do this awesome set justice.

When a screen that is supposed to be a solid primary color(red, green, or blue) has discolored blotches that is a problem with the purity. Purity issues can be fixed by degaussing the screen and or preforming a purity adjustment.

^ The Sanyo had that problem since new. Pardon my ignorance, but don't modern CRT sets degauss automatically, at least sometimes? Also, the discoloring would come on fairly gradually. Doesn't matter much I guess, that set was worth nothing to me. It replaced a 1989 Magnasonic whose vertical deflection cut out. The Magnasonic was in horrible cosmetic shape anyway, but that's because I didn't take care of it.
Duly noted. :)

Sometimes the internal degauss don't cut it or breaks without affecting anything else. Sometimes the purity adjustment magnets need to be tweaked.
Anything new enough to not use any tubes, besides the CRT, I don't work on or care much about aside from as a source of parts.

To each his own. My first TV, also my only tube TV, was a hand-down b&w portable Admiral, white plastic case.

...two antenna inputs? Possible PIP set?

Cheers,

^ Good question, I have no idea. I couldn't find out anything about this TV online. To get a really good look at the control panel I'll have to get down on the floor. I do have a universal remote that was given to me with it. I'll have to go into the menu to see what I can find.

Edit: No PIP tuner, just an ANT button that triggers a relay and makes ANT 2 appear and disappear from the on-screen display. Other than controlling power and volume, the universal remote is pretty useless on this thing.

Forgot to mention, it has S-video in as well.

Just an antenna switch. Like A= roof antenna & B= cable.
Sometimes the B wouldnt pass UHF:thumbsdn:

73 Zeno:smoke:

Re-capping newer tv's is not necessary. Caps are made better now, the '40's 50's 60's had used different materials and they often did not hold up well. Newer sets like that panasonic may have some parts that would go regularly on a specific model, but just replacing all for no reason on a set like that is just a waste.

Granted, this set is 9 years older than the one belonging to the OP, but as this video demonstrates, not all failing components produce immediately visible problems. You never know what problems may be lurking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYpTz00bFU

(oops, wrong link)

I vote with username1. That can be a crap load of caps especially
in a set like this Panny. The biggest thing is the risk of inducing a
new problem & thats the hardest thing to find. Some common cap
problems like the 2 tantalums in a Toshiba or the 200V filter that goes in
everything are one thing. But all of them ? :nono::nono::nono:.
Best to spend time checking it over for cold joints, you will find
them in almost any old TV. Just do a visual on the caps in the
PS, hoz, vert & scan supplies. If you see a top lifting & puss coming
out change it !
Enuf

73 Zeno:smoke:

^ Sounds good to me. By the way, It's amazing that I never got a shock from HV, what with all the TVs and monitors I took apart in my youth without really knowing what I was doing. Worst I got was a couple of doses of household mains voltage, one being on a challenge from the superintendent at my old building. That guy could hold onto live mains wires no problem.

The HV wont kill a health man but the mains sure can easily.
It just makes you sweat & may give you a-fribs for a short time.
If fact if someone has a-fribs & gets a properly timed belt it can
reset the heart to a normal rhythm. They did it to me 3 times but I
didnt use a TV, I went to the hospital instead. Works better:D

73 Zeno:smoke:

^ Wow, I guess it's good that I didn't get dryer/stove current either time.

The bosses dryer crapped out once. Traced it to a bad cigar fuse.
Having had some liquid courage he decided to jump it with a
hefty screw driver so his wife would stop nagging him.:nono::beer:
The dryer had a dead short & cut half way through the screw driver
before he jerked back. He said it was quite a show.
Gotta respect AC

73 Zeno:smoke:

^ Hahaha love it. :D

Congrats on your find!!!

I hope you have many good viewing times w/her :)

^ Thanks. :)