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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
If you do not mind my asking, what is worse about this era of Sony color sets compared to earlier and later ones? I remember working on an absolute dog 12" color Sony set about 1983-84, but I think it was an earlier one (1970-72).
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The first Sony colors were not bad. The only thing odd
about them was they used separate HV & H sweep stages.
They switched to an SCR the SG613 abt '74 & they were
dogs to deal with. I did time at Sony service in '76 IIRC.
Even they couldnt reliably fix them. Most of them got the
whole H/V/HV board replaced along with the power supply parts
damaged. The customer would get a bill for a hand full of
small parts. No shop in my area would touch one, it meant 2
50 mile round trips to Boston if you had a dead one.
After that they switched to a conventional hoz design &
for the most part became as easy to fix as most sets.
73 Zeno
