Freebie 1989 GE

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

One you want to stay away from is the 25" Panasonic-built GE's. Every one of those that I saw had a weak CRT, bad flyback, and/or numerous bad connections on the chassis. IIRC, the flyback part number was TLF14423F. Those sets were made around '85-'86, in both table and console models. I never really cared for the picture on them, even when they worked right.

There was also a BC chassis, used in 13" and 17" sets of the '83-'84 time period. This chassis was also made by Panasonic. It had a decent picture; but, flyback transformers loved to go up in smoke in them.

Not that long ago I had one of those infamous Panasonic consoles from 1984. A long time ago we had a 19" Panasonic with a red LED channel readout and six large rectangular buttons underneath, arranged in two columns.