Magnavox First Color TV

[holmesuser01]

Some of the HEAVIEST sets I ever worked on were Magnavox.

As for living a long life, my cousin had a 1967 Maggie rectangular set that never saw service until 1991, when I replaced the vertical output tube. All the other tubes were Maggie branded. I know this set saw daily use all those years.

A lightning strike on the tuner finally killed it. It was starting to look dull and smeary by this time.

The other Maggies usually had bad flybacks that were a bitch to find.

[Zenith26kc20]

Most maggies had flyback failures because I doubt the factory dipped horizontal current. My T-933 was running around 225 ma when I got it running. I adjusted the efficiency coil and after two hours it still holds at 189 ma. The color circuit is RCA but with a couple of odd compactrons. The weak point on mine is the tuner! It is a turret but very cheaply made. It would not be a good OTA analog as the fine tuning is a bit quirkey!
A friend of mine had a Maggie roundie for years until a large picture fell from the wall behind it and broke the CRT neck. The chassis was the one with the BIG silver HV cage that had the HV rectifier mounted upside down in it.