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2017 Sansui Serial Number Database

Wow, a real international group of posts. Thanks guys. They will be in the January report.
koray said:
seri numarası ne zaman ve nerede yayınlanacağını bildirir.
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I'm not sure what you are asking here. An on-line translator gives me this: "serial number tells you when and where to publish"

Here is the information contained in the serial number:
The first two digits indicate the production line.
Third digit is the year of manufacture
4th and 5th digits are the month of production
The remaining 4 digits are a sequential number

AU6900 836100430 - Production line 83, October 1976, the 430th unit off that line that month
AU555A 831090983- Production line 83, September 1971, the 983 unit off that line that month

The first post in this thread has a link to the latest Database Report.

I hope this helps.

- Pete
 
LBPete said:
Wow, a real international group of posts. Thanks guys. They will be in the January report.
I'm not sure what you are asking here. An on-line translator gives me this: "serial number tells you when and where to publish"

Here is the information contained in the serial number:
The first two digits indicate the production line.
Third digit is the year of manufacture
4th and 5th digits are the month of production
The remaining 4 digits are a sequential number

AU6900 836100430 - Production line 83, October 1976, the 430th unit off that line that month
AU555A 831090983- Production line 83, September 1971, the 983 unit off that line that month

The first post in this thread has a link to the latest Database Report.

I hope this helps.

- Pete
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Hi Pete,
Many tks for your info. I searched but could not find anything on Sansui production lines, can you pse. Give more details ie. Locations,
etc?
Thank you!
 
Almost all the information we have on production lines comes from the serial numbers themselves. Often when a model was first introduced all production is from a single line. As the model ages, often the production would shift to a different line. Here are some examples:

We have 5 SC-5300s on file, all were produced on line 24
We have 21 G-6000s on file. Based on this sample, Production started in February '78 on Line 02. In April '78 it moved to Line 81 and in May it moved to Line 85.
Your G-6000 was built in May of '78 on line 85. That month G-7000s and G-8000s were also built on that line.
All 16 of the SR-838s on file were built on line 31.

Some of the lines seem to be dedicated to certain types of models. Line 85 produced mostly receivers. In other cases a line is used for many different models. The database shows that line 31 produced at least 34 wildly different models in its history.

Some day when I have time I'll try to list models and production lines.

- Pete
 
LBPete said:
Welcome to the Sansui Serial Number Database thread. The database now resides on Sansui Page in Digital Docs. You Can Access it here:

Sansui Serial Number Database
Please post new serial numbers in this thread. They will be uploaded to the database at least monthly, more often if needed.

When posting serial numbers please use this format:

Model,Serial Number,AK User Name
9090DB,827011234,LBPete
G-9000DB,818021234,AK User Name
AU-555A,581080009,AK User Name

No spaces but please place a comma between data points. The commas are important. List multiple serial numbers as indicated. Please do not add anything else. I have to delete it when I create the upload file.

This format is changed slightly from Paul's format but it's easier for me.
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AU-9500,214030567,Fuzzywun
 
LBPete said:
Almost all the information we have on production lines comes from the serial numbers themselves. Often when a model was first introduced all production is from a single line. As the model ages, often the production would shift to a different line. Here are some examples:

We have 5 SC-5300s on file, all were produced on line 24
We have 21 G-6000s on file. Based on this sample, Production started in February '78 on Line 02. In April '78 it moved to Line 81 and in May it moved to Line 85.
Your G-6000 was built in May of '78 on line 85. That month G-7000s and G-8000s were also built on that line.
All 16 of the SR-838s on file were built on line 31.

Some of the lines seem to be dedicated to certain types of models. Line 85 produced mostly receivers. In other cases a line is used for many different models. The database shows that line 31 produced at least 34 wildly different models in its history.

Some day when I have time I'll try to list models and production lines.

- Pete
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Hi Pete,
Thank yo very much for your reply, I thought that maybe there was more info. on the production lines.
I also saw yesterday that my Qs 500 and all I could find on Ebay showing the back pannel have the T SOC on it and all listed on AK
were made on p.line 83 so maybe p.line 83 was an outsource!?
 
Thanks guys!
antpaubarcar said:
Hi Pete,
Thank yo very much for your reply, I thought that maybe there was more info. on the production lines.
I also saw yesterday that my Qs 500 and all I could find on Ebay showing the back pannel have the T SOC on it and all listed on AK
were made on p.line 83 so maybe p.line 83 was an outsource!?
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Line 83 was definitely an in-house line. A lot of "core" models were built on it.

- Pete
 
LBPete said:
I have no idea, can you post a picture?

- Pete
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Hi Pete,
Photo from Ebay attached, if you need more examples just let me know and tomorrow I will take one of my own Qs 500 (it is now almost midnight here)
 

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Thanks Mysticpete, got it.

antpaubarcar said:
Hi Pete,
on another post = Sansui Sr 838 custom feet
Sansuiman send a reply about subcontractors with this link about the circle
with the T-tag

http://www.thevintageknob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=2395&p=5574&hilit=T+tag#p5574

Pse. Take a look and comment
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That's a very interesting link. It's the first time I've seen any identification of contractors. It needs to be discussed in the main Sansui forum to see how widely known the t-tag is.

- Pete
 
LBPete said:
That's a very interesting link. It's the first time I've seen any identification of contractors. It needs to be discussed in the main Sansui forum to see how widely known the t-tag is.

- Pete
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My friend Axel did a hell of research on this matter before publishing it; too bad that he has stopped working on TVK, but there were a various reasons for it.

Besides that the T-tag was used for contractor (location) identification on JDM electronic equipment, that tag symbol actually stands for "postal code" in Japan. From wiki:

〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. The mark is a stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信 communications).​
 
Oilmaster said:
My friend Axel did a hell of research on this matter before publishing it; too bad that he has stopped working on TVK, but there were a various reasons for it.

Besides that the T-tag was used for contractor (location) identification on JDM electronic equipment, that tag symbol actually stands for "postal code" in Japan. From wiki:

〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. The mark is a stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信 communications).​
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TVK? what does it mean? (pse. forgive my ignorance!)
 
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