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05-13-2005, 06:50 PM
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Quote: "On a side note... have you ever wondered about the power cords used on vintage roundie sets? The cords usually look kinda wimpy considering the set uses 300+ watts!"
---------------------------- Wimpy is right. Last night, or was it early this morning, a CTC2 (s/n B8000194), an early production chassis that I’m restoring, was powered up using a late-’50s cheater cord that has never been uncoiled since it left the factory. The cage is gutted so no HO circuit load exists, only the front end, the oscillators, video, chroma, sync sep., and so such. It was on for about 30 minutes while checking voltages and stuff so I listened to audio from over-the-air ABC channel 7 from NYC while running the ABC video on an HDTV in NTSC mode. One of the things I did was check the power draw with a wattmeter – just short of 300 watts. A fully operational CT-100 is rated at 475 watts. When I killed the power and removed the cheater cord from the CTC2 after the thirty minute run, that cheater cord was actually warm to the touch! Pete 
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