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Old 10-28-2005, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonathan
I never really cared for AC/DC transformerless radios or TVs. I realize they are lighter, but thats the only benefit I see, and that's not even that much of a benefit. And yeah, a ballast tube is the wrong way to do it, not to mention wasting all that power. There should have been a filament transformer in there in the first place.

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The problem at the time was that Motorola was trying make a cheap TV (The GoldenView was the first TV to sell for under $200), and a transformer would have cost more than a ballast tube, though it would have saved us a lot of troble today, but I don't think that Motorola was thinking that far into the future. It seems that if they had put a little more thought into the tubes they used they could have made a series string set with no ballast, like the later sets, but tubes they needed to do that probably wern't created yet.

I think there were other 7" sets that used a power transformer (Admiral?).
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