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Originally Posted by slidertogrid
Some bl@@dy awful thing that looked like a CVC5 but had a 25kv overwind and ate LOPTS.t!  |
Yes it was the Combe [?] Colour I think. Designed for 220V and was very much over run on 245 volts. LOPT was very bad and could only be obtained from Germany.
The Japanese makers knew that reliability was King and used the very best components usually designed, manufactured and tested in their own factories.
My VX1110 had not been switched on for a good number of years and worked perfectly on first switch on. Nothing needed adjustment as if it had been turned off the night before.
£180 was certainly a fair sum in 1971/2 but if I remember rightly the 17" Thorn 8000 arrived the same year at about the same price and on the whole it was quite a reliable little TV. It was always the power supply that let down British Tv's. Thanks for comments, John.