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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
The UHF tuner is on the side of the set, to satisfy the intent of the FCC, to provide all channel reception. The older models had UHF strips.
I disabled the off function on the one button remote sets, as it's not really good for the set, the surge.
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I've got a late 70s 19" ultrasonic Quasar that has an elegant solution to the surge issue. There's a delay relay (or circuit haven't opened it or looked at the sam's) on the power off position so that if you are just trying to work your way around it'll stay on, but if you linger on the OFF position long enough (2-5 sec IIRC) it'll power off.
EDIT I just found another cool feature in that set...If it can't detect sync pulses (station sign off, or VTR that isn't producing usable video) it'll power off in 10 seconds.
If I were worried about the surge I'd probably try to implement the quasar approach.