You are probably right on the tuners, I dont remember any.
K line still had pots & buttons, cant remember if real RAT's
came in L line but in some M's.
First 9-181 sets we got was the cheapest 19" with old tuners.
They looked cheap & that orange pix didnt help. We were
pissed & really gave the sales rep a bad time. When better models
came out I noticed they looked fine with the auto off. So I
looked for the difference & its just grounding one spot & killing
the auto in the IC ( hitachi made IIRC ). We modified all the
cheapos then & they looked great.
Told the service rep in Boston & he tried it. Admitted it worked
but "never tell Chicago about what you are doing". They were
VERY touchy about mods & rightfully so. Could have cost the franchise.
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
I think this is one of the sets that had a lousy picture from the factory and the fix was to disable the auto color feature on the chroma IC.
Years ago, I had a 13" Zenith with this exact same control arrangement. I also had a Zenith console that was a step up from this one. It still had a manual volume/power switch and non-cable ready tuner; but, at least that one had a direct access keypad.
The next model under this one would have been the single knob varactor tuned model. After the Chromacolor II chassis was discontinued, I'm not sure that Zenith made anything bigger than 19" that had a standard two-knob tuner.
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