On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:08:19 GMT, James Sweet
wrote:

wrote:
Truly ancient but good tech. I have a 1994 Mitsubishi Diva on swivel
base, trouble free until now. Sentmentally attached to it, the
problem has exhibited and slowly become worse over the last few months
until now it is "dead and clicking".

The picture over the last few months has occasionally just turned off,
but a little tap with a closed fist in the sweet spot on the side has
turned it back on. The problem has become worse, until the wife
called me at work yesterday and said it is dead and a loud clicking
noise is coming from the chassis (left hand side, where I had been
tapping it) and the standby light was clicking on and off, trying to
turn on.

Alas, cannot get it to work now. CLicking noise, and standby red
light clicking on and off, on and off.

Could it be the electrolytic capacitors? Anyone got any suggestions
on what it could be? It is fairly old, but we love the picture and may
get it fixed instead of leaping into the new tech (plasma or lcd).

Thanks


Lino


Sounds like it had a cold solder joint which would have been a quick
easy fix, but you continued to use it until the bad connection blew out
the HOT or other power semiconductor and now it will be considerably
more work to repair. A tech can still fix it for you without too much
work, but it would have been probably 1/4 the cost if you'd taken it in
when it first started to act up.


Well life's a learning experience all the way. What do you mean "bad
connection"? Solder loosened, clip joint or friction connector loose?
It is on the board in that area do you think, or a module like the
power supply? I wonder if anyone has the manual for the unit or how
to get it?

Lino