Another local Hoffman! COLOR!

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

I have been looking at the SAMS for a while now, and just LOLing!
It's obviously an RCA CTC-17 -ish type clone, with mods, but what got me was the totally pointless mod of what is called the “color caster” color indicator circuit, which is 2 NPN transistors hooked to the color bandpass, which turns on 3 lights when color is present.... WHY BOTHER? :O


HEY, WE HAVE COLOR! let's light up the color, and tint controls!

Well, hypothetically, the color could be turned all the way down accidentally by kids or even the supposedly intelligent owner.

Of course, in later years we had cable systems that never turned the color burst off on anything including black and white movies, producing crosscolor when it should have been killed. By then no sets had a color indicator, but it would have been useful to me after I turned the color down deliberately on black and white movies.

Edit: well, not really useful, as it would always indicate color, but it might remind me to turn the color up again.