One of the most common horizontal drive faults of the CTC-203 chassis was
very poor solder connections at the inductor that connects physically to the
base of the Horizontal Output Transistor.
In production, a small amount of glue was flowed over the coil to hold it in
place, during the soldering process a bit of the material contaminated the
connection to the traces on the bottom of the pcb.
Removal of the coil, through cleaning of the coil leads and the pads, then
reflowing the solder to those connections normally resolved the problem.
The power supply would run and produce proper B+ but there would be no HV
and therefore no derived supplies.
I've seen LOPT replacements, by good techs that were not needed, due to the
fact they did not check the condition of mentioned connections leading from
the Horizontal drive transformer to the base of the output transistor.

"JANA" wrote in message
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Most of the time, worn capacitors in these TV sets do not have any visual
difference. We use an ESR meter and a cap meter to check them. Most of the
faults in these TV sets are from capacitors going high in their ESR rating
with age.

As for the Flyback, RCA has world wide parts distributors. There may still
be some generic replacements sold by the independent electronic parts
suppliers. Do a Google search for RCA flyback and see if you can find a
vendor.

As for myself, I would not be spending any time on such a TV set. I would
be
putting my efforts in getting new set.

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JANA
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"Jon" wrote in message
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Hi,

Trying to fix my inlaws TV. At this point it's scrap to them, so I've
broken out my rarely used Hakko and reflowed everything I could on the
neck board and main board that I could get to. I looked for exploded
capacitors (all I've ever messed with is a few arcade monitors), but
didn't find any.

Searching F32649 on the net pretty much only reveals people saying it
could be the Flyback Transformer. Looks like something tough to
replace.

I've got a high voltage probe, and it seems like the TV is getting up
to at least 10kV. Maybe 20kV.

But, the real symptoms are as follows.
1. High Dog Hair and Cigarette Household.
2. Just put an area heater in front of it for a few days before it
went bad.
3. Started by screen going from full screen to just a horizontal
line. Would snap back to full screen.
4. Apparently did that and some weird on/off behavior for a day or
two.
5. Now, just does the old "click" in a 4 or 5 time on/off pattern at
the powersupply. No picture at all.

Any ideas? If it is possibly the flyback, where can I buy one from?
How much would it cost?

Thanks,

Jon