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Fisher Radio (The Fisher) hi-fi.

Fisher destroyed its own records after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and its serial numbers ran by line rather than monotonically. What survives is the manual list: which service manual applies from which number. That brackets a unit into a manual range, and it does not convert into a year.

Country
USA
Active since
1945
Coverage
1960–2023 · 17 code systems
Dating tier
Mixed coverage
In the archive
89 series · 17 code systems · 13 models
Years documented
1960–2023
Watch out
  • A manual bracket is not a year: the community's "about ten thousand units a year" is an estimate, not a table.
  • Model years are not build dates on a Fisher console.
Serial coverage
SeriesYearsRowsEra note
100 Amplifier SM—1
100 Table Top Radio—1
100-R Tuner—1
100-T Tuner/Preamp—1
100-T Tuner/Preamp #2—1
101-R Tuner—1
105 Receiver—1
110 Receiver—1
175-T—1
20-R—1
202-R Tuner—1
202-T Preamplifier Tuner—1
202-T Preamplifiier Tuner—1
21-R—1
22-R—1
220-T Receiver—1
31R—1
400 Receiver—4
400-C Preamp—2
400-CX Preamp—1
440-T Receiver Service Manual—1
500-B Receiver—1
500-C Receiver—3
500-S Receiver—1
500-T Receiver—2
500-TX Receiver—1
550-T—1
600 Receiver—4
600-T Receiver—4
700-T Receiver—1
800 Receiver—1
800-B Receiver—1
800-C Receiver—3
90-C SM #1—1
90-R—1
90-T—1
Ambassador VI A-69—1
Consolette Series 510—1
Consolette Series 610—1
Contemporary II C-810—1
Coronet C-808—1
Coronet II C-55—1
Custom Electra III - 420—2
Custom Electra III - 440—1
Custom Electra IV - E44—1
Executive 972—1
Executive VII 990X—1
Executive VIII 950—1
FM-100—2
FM-100-B—1
FM-100-C—1
FM-1000—1
FM-101-B—1
FM-200-B Service Manual—2
FM-200-C—1
FM-50—1
FM-90-B—2
Futura II F-210—1
MPX-100—3
MPX-200—1
Philharmonic III P-28—1
Philharmonic P-22—1
Philharmonic V P-290—2
Premier F-220—1
Promenade 310—1
R-200 Tuner—1
R-200-B—2
Series 510—1
Statesman 1010—1
Stereo Companion 560—1
TFM-1000—1
TFM-200—1
TFM-300—1
TX-100—1
TX-1000—1
TX-300—1
TX-50—1
X-100—1
X-100-B—2
X-100-C—1
X-1000—1
X-101—2
X-101-B Service Manual—1
X-101-C—2
X-101-D—1
X-200—1
X-202 Amplifier—3
X-202-B Amplifier—2
X-202-C—1
Code systems in this archive
Fisher: the year is a MODEL year, and the serial number does not give it1945-1975 · 5 rows · Medium confidence
Fisher's own EIA house code 10561950s-1960s · 1 rows · Medium confidence
Fisher: documented serial ranges per chassis come from the manuals1950s-1969 · 4 rows · Medium confidence
Hunts capacitor date code (WHITSUNDAY)1950s-1969 (Hunts taken over by Erie in the late 1960s, probably 1969) · 25 rows · Medium confidence
British year-letter date codes (TCC, Dubilier, Radiospares, Woden, Welwyn)1950s-1960s · 4 rows · Medium confidence
Mullard 'mustard' capacitor date codelate 1963 onwards (used occasionally in late 1963, more frequently from mid 1964) · 3 rows · Medium confidence
Egen potentiometer date code1960-1964 (year letters documented by the source) · 2 rows · Medium confidence
EIA component source/date codeswhole vintage period · 1 rows · High confidence
Safety warnings that apply to any vintage valve hi-fiwhole vintage period · 4 rows · High confidence
Japanese electrolytic capacitor date codes - the shared YYWW mechanicdocumented samples 1993-2023; no maker states when a format started or ended · 0 rows · Medium confidence
Nippon Chemi-Con date code (year digit + bracketed character)2000s production (the repair page was published November 2005) · 2 rows · Low confidence
Nichicon date code (plant letter + YYWW)1990s-2010s (documented 1993 and 2013 samples, same format) · 4 rows · Medium confidence
ELNA date code (four digits, YYWW)1990s-2000s (documented 2000 and 2003 samples) · 2 rows · Medium confidence
Rubycon date code (plant letter + YYWW)1990s-2000s (documented 2002 and 2008 samples) · 3 rows · Medium confidence
Matsushita / Panasonic lot-code date (xYMD), SMD parts2020s SMD parts (documented example decoded as April 2023) · 1 rows · Low confidence
Nichicon month letters J-Z (official notice, power capacitors and reactors)2004 production numbers; the notice itself is dated 2022-04-01 · 4 rows · High confidence
Class A heat, bias and the dating trap - safety notes for this wavewhole Class A vintage period (1967-present) · 3 rows · High confidence
Model catalogue

13 Fisher Radio (The Fisher) models are catalogued with their production years, specs and safety notes.

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Frequently asked
Do Fisher serial numbers carry a year?

No — Fisher published blocks per model without years, and its own records were lost after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The archive refuses a year rather than inventing one.

How do I date a Fisher 400?

By the model: the 400 receiver is a documented 1963–1964 model year, and the component codes give the floor beneath it.

What is the Fisher house code?

Fisher's own EIA maker code 1056 on transformers and parts — a component witness, not a unit date.

Compiled from 496 published sources — the source library.