Chromate (television set)
Chromat was the model name for a color television set produced in the GDR . The manufacturer was the RFT plant in Staßfurt .
The term chromate was presumably based on chroma (Greek) = color and apparatus , in order to underline that it was a color television set. In the mid-1970s, when the device was first offered, there were black and white devices in most GDR households . The device, which was quite expensive at around 4,000 GDR marks , was therefore a luxury item.
- Design: Mono color television set for home use
- Housing: wood, chipboard, cardboard back panel
- Picture tube: shadow mask (delta) color picture tube, 58 cm diagonal, from Soviet production. At first, picture tubes with a 56 cm diagonal from Japanese production were also used
- Component assembly: Fully transistorized , partly analog ICs
- Power pack : conventional power pack with transformer and transistor series regulator . Power consumption approx. 180 watts
- Tuner : Separately for VHF and UHF , capacitance diode tuning
- Reception areas: Volume I, III and IV / V
- Television , color standard: CCIR , SECAM , with additional module PAL B / G
- Channel selection: 6-fold electromechanical channel memory
- Remote control : None
- Connections: antenna input (75 Ohm), headphones (DIN cubic socket ), DIN socket (output only, for tape recordings )
- Sound: mono, differential carrier frequency method, approx. 4 watts on built-in broadband loudspeaker
- Manufacturing period: Approx. 1975-1983
- Price: approx. 3500 DDR marks (SECAM only), approx. 4100 DDR marks (PAL / SECAM)
The device was the successor to the Color 22 with the following improvements: full transistorization with partial use of analog ICs, six (instead of five) channel memories, elements for convergence adjustment now behind a removable loudspeaker cover, which made adjustment easier. A version with remote control was offered as Chromalux , but only produced in small numbers and was therefore very difficult to obtain.
The successors were the television sets Novamat / Novatron (with switching power supply and extensive IC equipment) as well as Colormat , Colorett and Colortron / Colorlux with slot mask (inline) picture tubes.