Tony Arkles wrote:
>
> On 16-Jul-07, at 8:26 AM, Scott Walde wrote:
>> Don't listen to Dylan... he doesn't know anything about fixing tvs.
>> ;-) (Control _logic_? _mechanism_?)
>>
>> He is right, though, that it is probably not the tube. It could very
>> likely be your flyback transformer, or HOT. Sometimes those go due
>> to dried out capacitors nearby, so you need to look for those too.
>> TVs are generally quite repairable. Whether or not it's financially
>> worthwhile is up to you.
>
> I was going to say... A pop sounds a lot like a capacitor (I've popped
> a few of them in the past)
>
Both HOTs and Flybacks are also prone to impressive catastrophic
failures. Must be something about using thousands of volts to deflect
an electron beam.
ttyl
srw
Received on Mon Jul 16 19:39:44 2007
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