Darmok:
What you described is the posistor for the automatic degaussing circuit....
and it is suppose to get hot. When you first turn on your television you
will hear a whooshing noise... that is the degaussed working.... and when
the posister heats up it gradually reduces the power going to the degaussing
coils... then a relay will cut off all power to the degassing circuit. This
is NOT the cause for your television turning itself off, it has absolutely
nothing to do with your television's on/off operation other than degaussing.
I would still suspect faulty solder connections or maybe a heat sensitive
component in the other areas of circuitry, but in not the degaussing
circuitry.
You may want to go to the website for this newsgroup at
http://www.repairfaq.org/
there, with some searching, you can learn a lot about the degaussing circuit
and other things to look for in your quest to fix your television..... the
answers are there if you plan to spend some quality search time.
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Best Regards,
Daniel Sofie
Electronics Supply & Repair
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"Darmok" wrote in message
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Hi,

Some time ago, I mentioned that my 15 year old Sony KV-27EXR15 would
periodically turn itself off. After some time, it would come back on,
either by itself, or if I turned the set off from the front panel and
let it sit for a while.

Today, I took the time to go over all the boards closely. I was
looking for fractured solder joints or traces and found none. All
boards were in great shape!

Well, I reassembled it, and turned it on, and might have stumbled on
the cause of all this ... or at least an indicator of what part is
failing.

On the "G" board, which is located on the left side of the chassis
(looking into it from behind), there is a small, cubical black part in
the lower left corner, with the following printed on it:

081-22
0607
TDK

Looking at the schematic for the KV-27EXR15, I find that this is a
part called "THP607", a 3 legged part. This part gets VERY HOT when
the set is on. When the set goes out, it cools off, and the set will
power up again. I'm thinking that this is some kind of thermal
protection device.

Here are the questions:

Is this part known to fail, and thus the likely cause of my problems?

Is this part getting hot due to something else in the set drawing too
much current (not likely, since neither of the two glass fuses have
blown .. ever .. in 15 years!)

Where would one find a replacement part like this to install?

Thanks for any help you can provide ...

Bill