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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
I've gotten several '80's AOC's with smoked FBT's. Even in the mid '90's, some of the FBT's were NLA and I junked the TV.
Speaking of Sylvania/Philco, I've got a 19" Sylvania from early-'82 (after the NAP buyout) that uses the E32 chassis; which, was a carry over chassis from GTE. I think that by the mid '80's, NAP had phased out all the old GTE designs and went with their own chassis. It's a shame that Philco, Magnavox, and Sylvania wound up being names slapped on low end Funai built garbage.
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Yup E32. If I remember thats the one that had bad filters, FBT's
& the zener diode shorting...... I liked them, many didnt. Very predictable
& ran decent. Not as good as the GT-matics w/dark lite tube ( E08 etc ?)
but nice. I think the first NAP chassis was C-1. The one with 2
boards & kick-start ala RCA. Nice clean layout, not many problems &
it threw a damn nice pix. After that my biggest beef with NAP was the
switching supplies, could be a pain to deal with. Just dont like switchers.
Funai. I forgot about there "contibution" to NAP. Almostvery brand of CRT
set made a chassis I liked even GE & Orion. But Funai NO !!
I have a special hatered for them especially the combos......
73 Zeno