Ken Weitzel wrote:

Looked carefully, and either I had broken the thermistor,
or broke it while looking. Scrounged another from an old
monitor, replaced it and still dead as a doornail.

Just from interest, should it start with an open therm?


That's just a degaussing thermister, the TV will start and run without
it. Check the collector of the horiz output. In standby, the
collector should read about 145 volts or so. If it's zero, the smps is
dead or shutdown.

John