• Country
• Australia

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Philips Australia

• Year
• 1960

• Category
• Television Receiver (TV) or Monitor

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 216140

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• Number of Tubes
• 17

• Valves / Tubes
• 6ES8 6BL8 6BY7 6EJ7 6EJ7 6DX8 6BL8 6BL8 6BM8 6BL8 6CS6 6BM8 6BX6 6CM5 6AL3 1S2 AW53-88

• Number of Transistors

• Semiconductors
• OA70 or. OA80 or. OA90 OA79 OA79 OA81 or. OA91 OA81 or. OA91 OA81 or. OA91 OA81 or. OA91 OA81 or. OA91 OA210 OA210

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 36000/30500 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Wave bands
• Wave Bands given in the notes.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 200; 220; 240; 255 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) - elliptical

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Merlin 21LT630 - Philips Australia

• Shape
• Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 29.88 x 20.75 x 15.75 inch / 759 x 527 x 400 mm

• Notes

• Philips Model 21LT630 "Merlin" Lowboy

  A 21" luxury lowboy having an aluminised 110º picture tube, 16 valves, 8 germanium diodes, 2 silicon diodes, 5 voltage dependent resistors and one light dependent resistor. Power tuning - local and remote. Cabinet in maple, walnut or rose mahogany.

  Features: Aerial input 300 or 75 ohms. Ten channel cascode turret tuner with simple channel pre-selection. Two frame-grid valves in 3 stage IF. Two sound IF stages, ratio detector, DC coupling to picture tube. Keyed, gated and delayed AGC. Noise detector and frequency controlled noise gate. Horizontal chassis - good service accessibility. Front mounted 9" x 5" elliptical speaker.

  Controls: push button on/off, channel selector bar, contrast, volume, brightness, tone. Rear pre-set - fine tuning, channel selector, disc/manual tuner, horizontal hold, vertical hold. Remote control unit for channel, volume, picture with 25 ft. of kinkless cable. (MINGAY'S PRICE SERVICE)

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 99 lb (99 lb 0 oz) / 44.946 kg

• Price in first year of sale
• 208.95 AUS £

• Mentioned in
• Mingay's Price Service (Aug 1960.)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• -- Original-techn. papers. (Philips Service Data, April 1960.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• J.R. Publications Television Service Handbook (L.J. Series Vol. 1, 1962, Page P12.)

• Author
• Model page created by Stuart Irwin. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 900 models, 696 with images and 421 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Philips Australia