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Old 10th Dec 2018, 1:47 pm   #19
kingbeau
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Default Re: CRT is brighter to one side

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Originally Posted by rambo1152 View Post
I can't quite see what the three buttons on the remote do.
Perhaps channel up, channel down and off.

At least one set I remember did not allow for switching on again, the off button operated a solenoid that unlatched the power switch in the set, and if you were lucky, the plastic button would be ballistically propelled across the room.
I remember a Baird branded set which did this with the power. The other two buttons - one was a volume control which when pressed would set it to roughly half of the current volume setting, pressing it again would restore it to whatever level was set on the pot. The other button was a channel cycle button which would advance it one channel at a time. Not much need for a channel down button when it only had 6 channels
I also remember these sets would change channel if you jingled a set of keys in front of it, and one engineer told me that if you pointed these remotes at budgies they'd go crazy and start squawking!
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