The Radionic
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The early series
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The Radionic
series of kits was not originally made by
Philips, but was sold under the Philips brand in the UK for a period in
the early 1970s. I have a very incomplete knowledge of these kits,
particularly the non-Philips ones. Though I know that the series
predates the Philips involvement, the only kit I know of from this
period is X30 from 1969.
The Philips series at one point consisted of the basic kits X20
Basic Electricity Kit and X40 Radio and Electronic Kit, and
the X40A Amplifier Add-on Kit which could only be used in
combination with X40. The book Fundamentals of Radio and
Electricity was included in the X40A kit along with its main
instruction book.
The diagram shows the kits in the early series; basic kits on grey
background, expansions on white.
X40 also appears with a different, presumably later, box design. This
design is shared by The X24 Electronic Kit and its expansion
X24C Radio and Electronic Conversion Kit (the combination of
which seems to equal X40), the unnumbered kits The Electric Kit
and The Electric Control Kit and at least one non-Philips kit,
The Photographic Kit.
The Electric Kit seems to cover much the same themes as X20,
though with a different mounting system, and might have replaced this in
the new series. Whether or not X40A or a replacement also existed in
this series is uncertain.
The diagram shows the kits in the later series; basic kits on grey
background, expansions on white.
Instruction books
