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Back in 1988 I won an RCA Dimensia 27" floor model console in a contest (I could never have had to been able to justify buying it as I was in the process of restoring 2! CT-100's at the time, John Folsom now owns one of those 2). The Dimensia had wide I and Q demod on chip! Upon completion of the first CT, I parked it next to the Dimensia with a parallel RF feed. The similarities in the color reproduction was nothing short of amazing. The only plusses to the Dim. other than acreage was overall brightness and HV regulation. Even the signal sens. was comperable. I played that Dimensia brutally until '03 when the crt started to slide! Not too shabby. I still have it in queue waiting for rebuild. One of my all time worst offenders of the faith candidates is the RCA CTC-18x family. I quit counting how many of them I've had to do the tuner ground resolder routine (along with Bad regulator darlingtons, regulator ic's, up in smoke yokes, HOT's, and oh yes, EEproms!) I'll still fish them out of dumpsters, but only if they are near the top with no soured milk or other grossities stuck to them.
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