Merry Christmas 2023 CTC 16XL + Magnavox T933 weird cabinet!
 

I'm running out of room to put these TVs! :D

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Merry Christmas to you too!

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This silly Maggie still tends to act up from time to time, not sure what it is, no pic when first turned on once in a great while, then when warmed, turn on/off or flip service switch a few times, it pops on and will be problem free from then on.

Nice pics

Do you find that the Magnavox has good color rendition?

It works as well as any other, when it DOES work, but it can be finicky / temperamental at times, especially about the tubes used, even if NOS, one may just not work well, were another will be perfect.
Color circuitry is a bit weird comparatively, it uses a variable capacitor for tint control rather than a pot.
Alignment of the set can be a challenge, as someone here with the same chassis has found.
Over all, it works very well when it wants to behave! :P
I prefer RCA's approach like was used in my Hoffman Colorcaster Television, which is more or less a modded CTC-17, but as others have said, this set (chassis) is one of Magnavox's best sets of the era.

A little late and half-ass but I finally got my Philco TV-123 dialed in such that I have HV again and cathode current is low enough that I can safely run it for hours...
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I also got the HV working significantly better on my probably only surviving example Capeheart CXC-13...It should be at 25KV instead of 20-23, but it's much better than the 10KV it was making with the previous owners flyback lead mixup from them removing it for silly reasons. When I finish redoing the cabinet ( that has to wait till spring) I'll tackle that and some color and tuner issues. Just happy to get it off the Philco so I can stack another set there and free up floor space.

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Anyhow Merry Christmas too all and to all a good roundy tonight!

It does look very good. The display is a good circle!

very nice looking! :D :yes:

I ran my :yes:CTC-16xl and the hoffman colorcaster and the color maggie for over 4+ hours last night, all worked well W/O problems, other than the odd drift from vert lock on warmup with the 2 rectangle sets, then they stayed OK for the duration. the RCA still has a slight problem with vert retrace lines that show from time to time that I need to fix sometime, most likely worn cap / resistors that have not been changed yet, but other that that, the set is working very well. :yes:

Are the Philco and Capeheart essentially RCA clones?
Merry Christmas!

jr

Thanks.


No, and possibly.
The Philco is it's own design. It was their first color set and they only made 500 before they gave up and bought complete chassis from RCA they stuck with RCA chassis until around 1967.

The capeheart uses RCA patients and resembles a developmental design RCA had between the 21CT55 and CTC-4, but is not directly either design.

This is what I suspect is the source of my occasional retrace line problem
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every resistor and cap on the video / color PCB was replaced before I cot the set.

not so with the sweep PCB, it seemed to be OK anyway.

the 100k resistor R70 is on the sweep PCB, far side tied directly to the plate of the vertical output, it is still original. and I suspect it has gone up in value, c31 is a disc on the color PCB, and R71 new 2% carbon film type, so it has to be R70! :P

Those are all very nice pictures. Well done!