As mentioned earlier, I do have a Packard Bell chassis in my garage that appears to be similar, if not the same as this one. If you need parts, let me know.

Thanks for that info polaraman --it is the power transformer. I will look for spare parts chasssis if I can't get my hands on a transformer.

If anyone has sams for any of the above listed chassis I would be interested in them. I have been unsuccessful so far in locating a sams around here and in the library.

Let me know, and thanks in advance.

Packard Bell Made TV's???/
All I know is PC's in the early ninties!

oh yes, radios too. I think they stopped making sets in the mid 70s.

I'm as surprised as you are.

If their TV's are like the computers they made, I wouldn't take one even if somebody wanted to pay me to take it. Their computers are a troubleshooting NIGHTMARE!

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The Packard-Bell name was bought by a firm in Chatsworth, CA in the late 80s. Previously, the name belonged to the aerospace firm Teledyne, since they took over the original TV factory on Olympic Blvd in Los Angeles in the early 70s. There were a bunch of 70s-era Teledyne-Packard-Bell TVs, then the name was gone 'till it showed up 20 miles north and 20 years later. That Packard-Bell PC company was a short-lived operation. It started in about 1989, grew to occupy 5 or 6 large 25,000 sq ft buildings in Chatsworth, then came to a crashing halt (literally) at 4:31 AM on January 17, 1994. After most all their concrete tilt-up buildings got leveled by the Northridge Earthquake, they moved someplace else, but only lasted a year or so.

Interestingly, the Packard-Bell PC company relabeled a few Toshiba TVs as Packard-Bell. They were only sold to Packard-Bell employees, and I only ran across 2 of them at the TV shop I was working at in Chatsworth. It was 3 blocks from Packard-Bell.

Back on topic, I may have the factory manual for that set. If so, it's still up at the old place in Santa Clarita. I'll look for it next time I go there.

Charles

The CTC-7 would be the later chassis (1958/59) that used a doubler circuit, instead of the two 5U4's used in the earlier chassis (1957/58).
Interesting chassis. I recall seeing a Sams for their first color chassis that used the "donut" shape. Looks like the chassis swings out for repair/adjustment.
Kevin

I did some digging:
chassis 98C3 & 98C4 are in Sams 546-1
chassis 98C6 is in 614-2
chassis 98C7C (which includes model 21CC5, mentioned earlier) is in 685-1
chassis 98C7D, 98C7E & 98C8 are in 744-3

The only one of these I have is the last one. If you'd like it, send me a PM with your address. From the photo on the front, the control panel is the same. Uses a 6JE6 horizontal output.

Update:

After Moving to a new house the last couple of weeks I dug out the packard again.The transformer I got from peverett is in and I brought up the set on the variac with the HO pulled. Nothing got hot and no smells. I popped in the HO and crossed my fingers.

We have a raster!!!!!

The width is a little lacking on the right side, but the set is all original as far as I can tell. At least now I know I probably won't have to part it out.

:banana:

That's great news! Not to be nosey, but are you still in the SD area? I still need to get out to see your collection some day!

Charles

Yup! still in the SD area, just a little north west of where I was before!

Oh this sounds so great guys.... another roundie wakes from a deep dark slumber... i wonder if it will recognise a world full of set top boxes and DVD players?

I really hope this set can get going... Love the looks and chassis.