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13th Feb 2021, 5:56 pm | #41 |
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13th Feb 2021, 6:11 pm | #42 |
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Here's yet another variant on the VC chassis theme. It has a pushbutton VHF tuner and an illuminated continuous tuning scale for UHF. I'm not sure what make this one is, as the badge on the front has lost it's insert and there are no clues on the back cover either. I'm fairly sure it's not a KB, so it must be either a Regentone or an RGD....
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Thanks for all of the comments everyone, absolutely fascinating. Hopefully one day we may find a way to get the set restored.
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Do you have any photographs of the innards that you could share? Is the "model/chassis/serial number" paper label still present on the main chassis? It's usually located below the mains dropper. |
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16th Feb 2021, 12:04 pm | #47 |
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Re: KB Valiant (VV70) 1963
That is an odd TV as most had push buttons for UHF and rotary for VHF.
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All the basic KB, RGD and Regentone “VC” chassis models had rotary UHF and VHF tuners. |
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16th Feb 2021, 10:05 pm | #49 |
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Well here we go then. Luckily there's still a label lurking in the dust: VC34 chassis. The model is a TV502 - is that an RGD model number? It's not a KB or Regentone series, so I guess it must be. Looks like it has a regunned tube courtesy of Telec of Gainsborough, Lincs (tel. 3395)
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16th Feb 2021, 10:27 pm | #50 |
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That chassis takes me back.
TV502 was a Regentone. Lawrence. |
16th Feb 2021, 11:06 pm | #51 | |
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The main chassis looks to be a VC2, as it still has an HT smoothing choke, but a VDR stabilised line timebase (the VC3 and beyond used resistance-capacitance HT smoothing - cheaper!). I think the VC34 chassis type on the label must refer to the model specific version, including tuners, system switching arrangements and customer controls presentation. It's a pity the large rectangular label on the bottom RHS of the back cover is also missing (you can see where it was). That would have had the "brand name" on it. Shortly after STC bought the RGD, Regentone and Argosy brands and merged them into their KB subsidiary, subsequent sets with early "KB" VC chassis in them had such labels stuck over what was a Kolster Brandes marking directly printed onto the back cover itself. I have one that has a Regentone brand label stuck over the KB printing (they must have been using up KB back covers). After that, all brands of set just had "Consumer Products Division of STC" directly printed onto the back cover and the brand was indicated by the model number on the small paper label below the mains dropper (and the badge on the front of the cabinet). At least, until the ITT-KB brand started to appear. I think you could be correct saying that this model was probably a Regentone. Once STC Consumer Products had begun using a coherent model numbering system for all their brands, they used KV for KB, RV for RGD and (probably) TV for Regentone sets. For example, in radios, the KB model was KR019 and the equivalent Regentone was TR419 (1965/66 range models). I think the Regentone brand was discontinued around that time. |
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16th Feb 2021, 11:30 pm | #52 |
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Very interesting info! I was wrong- Lawrence is correct- it must be a Regentone, not an RGD. Odd that it has lost its identifying logos both front and back...
In my ignorance I didn't realise that Regentone model designations have a 'TV' prefix. In the 1964 'Which?' magazine test of dual standard receivers, they simply refer to the 'Regentone 197' etc. Steve |
16th Feb 2021, 11:52 pm | #53 |
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The purely numeric RGD and Regentone model numbers used in the initial ranges of STC (KB) made sets are a hangover from the previous brand owner, when they used Plessey made chassis.
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17th Feb 2021, 11:44 am | #54 |
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R&TV servicing 1965/66 pages 441-451 lists the Regentone TV502 as being fitted with the VC2 chassis using a 23" A59-13W CRT.
Oddly there is also what they call a 'Cost improved' version of the VC2 but just glancing at the circuit reveals no difference! The smoothing choke is in circuit on both versions. J. |
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A “cost improved” VC2 circuit diagram was issued (drawing no. 861/IC/E) after the full service manual was published. The significant changes are: • Alterations to the frame sync pulse amplifier stage • Elimination of the “baby alarm” wiring and tag strip • C100 and R119 in the audio preamp input circuitry are deleted. • Change in the HT feed to the PCL86 triode stage • Combining of a pair of series connected resistors into single component in the line output stage (R142+R143) • R83 and R86 are combined in the Boost HT feed to the frame oscillator stage (and R91 is deleted). • The 405 contact of S11 is used to add capacitor C122 (3kpF) in parallel with C125 (2kpF) – line drive waveform shaping. Last edited by dazzlevision; 17th Feb 2021 at 7:46 pm. |
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18th Feb 2021, 11:55 am | #56 |
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Odd they called it the 'cost improved' version. Adding up the differences I would have thought the savings if any, would have cancelled out. Normally these changes would have simply been called 'modifications'.
Excellent range of chassis and I must admit I found the UHF valve tuner a good performer when compared with the HOPT version fitted in the PYE 11U. John. |