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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
Speaking of the PC chassis, I need my memory refreshed. I know you all remember the older GE 19" color TV's where the whole cabinet basically lifted off to make it easier to access the chassis and there was a big metal frame that held everything together. They started this with tube TV's and were still doing it on the EC solid state TV's. When I was about 12-13, someone gave me a 19" GE solid state set with this type of cabinet arrangement; but, I seem to recall it having a single board chassis. Could this have been an early PC chassis TV? If not a PC; then, what was it? Or, am I totally wrong about the set I had being a single board chassis? All the other PC's that I've had used the more modern style cabinet where only the actual back cover lifted off.
Oh, and I hated to see those Panasonic built GE's. Those sets seemed to always have bad flyback's, bad CRT's, and very poor soldering. I recall the "BC" chassis that was used in 13" and 17" sets. The tuner control modules looked GE'ish; but, the chassis looked like a Panasonic OEM chassis and every one of them that I've worked on had a torched flyback. Then, there were the 25" sets that were Panasonic all the way and used the TLF14423 flyback. I didn't care for those, either. There was also an "MK-II" chassis 19" set that was a Matsushita and there was an orange disc cap in the HOT collector circuit that would burn and take the HOT with it. I've also seen a few GoldStar-built 13" GE TV's and GE's later 12" B&W post-XB chassis TV's were either Samsung or GoldStar.
IMHO, the best color GE was the PC and the best B&W GE's were the 12" and 15" "XB" and the 19" and 22" "XA" chassis.
I've got an '87 GE 19" knob-tuned color TV that uses the CTC136; but, that was after GE got out of the TV business and was kicking out rebadged RCA's. Wasn't '86 the last year for the PC chassis?
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Wow I dont remember that chassis. Some tube jobs had a bottom
plate attached to the back like portacolors. Others came out separate
like the C-2 18/19" dog. There was the portacolor 2 solid state
also used in 19" ( JA chassis ?). Had a vert module & every one the safety cap opened taking the HOT ( EP15X48 ?) & sometimes FBT, & vert board. Yokes also went. Thing I remember abt the import GE's was them
locking up & it had a reset button inside like later Emerson crap.
Also the cap & FBT as well.
PC chassis was one board, the old style HOT on a metal
part on the R. FBT was white with tastefully done paint
splotches. All mounted on a frame that you could pull it back
& remount in a service poss. Tuners usually conventional but
the electronic ones had griplets.
IIRC PM chassis was a PC with a switching supply & maybe
pin, comb & VIR cks. Prob. only in consoles. Not many seen.
And yes the PC was a POS. For the PC, AA,AB,AC I hung
a sheet on the wall showing which points to hard wire.
Still remember W34A,B &C on the AA..........
Been fun enuf fer now
73 Zeno
