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There were a very few color sets in Australia that used tubes when color TV started in the mid 70's except those that were imported in test trials & those that were brought in by Europein migrents.

The most common was the Dutch made Philips K7 chassis that used a PD500 as a shunt regulator tube & was used inconjunction with the GY501 EHT rectifer, Philips in Australia had at one stage plans on the drawing board to manufacture these sets for the Australian market but in the end opted for the fully solid state K9 chassis instead.

The only tube color TV avaible in this country were sets based on the UK made Decca 30 chassis & these sets used a trippler & only 6 tubes.