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Cant help with that, but if you want to try other stuff on the tube
this is the place to ask. Whats the tube fault, eht arcing?


NT


Hi, thanks for our reply.

The TV is already on its second CRT, a regun. The original CRT failed
gradually as the blue crept up over time. The regun was fine for years then
suddenly seemed to darken quite a bit. It stayed like that for months then
the dreaded flashover / intermittant grid short started. The engineer
mentioned that this model (32MW7DB) is known to have a short CRT life.

I'm unsure whether it would be worth chancing a tube hack as I'd have to
replace the blown IC and possibly other components to get it working, with a
strong possibility that it would happen again. I'm certainly open to your
suggestions though. It does switch on, and though the screen is blank, it
does show a flash of life at shutdown with a collapsing white raster.
There's no sound at all, which the engineer thinks is down to the faulty IC
on the CRT base holding a rail down.

Morse