Couple of '80's-'90's woodgrain plastic TV's

[radiotvnut]

I've been seeing these TV's at the flea market for well over a year; but, I never asked about them because I figured they'd be more expensive than I wanted to pay. Today, I asked the owner of the flea market about them and he said I could have them for free. He said the person he got them from claimed they worked; but, he'd never tested them.

The first one is a 19" Sears/Sanyo from '85. This is a cable ready/remote set with a red LED channel display. There was a time I could have gotten $100 out of this set; but, it's not worth nearly that much now. I think this is the set that uses a vertical module with surface mounted parts and they were known to have bad connections on the module. Otherwise, they were good TV's and made nice pictures. This one works; but, has a snowy picture.


The second TV is a plain jane mono 25" Magnavox from '93 that uses the 25S1 chassis. This one is dead and I think it's the one that has the failure prone 100 uf cap in the power supply that will eventually cause the HOT to short and take out the power supply. These were also good TV's with decent CRT's.