Hello all. This TV died a year ago, and it's been sitting in the living
room ever since. Wife said to fix it or toss it out. It's too big to haul
outside by myself, so I thought I'd give it a go.

I got the Sam's, and found that the HOT (2SD1428) was bad. Bought one, put
it in and it immediately blew again.

From lurking around in this newsgroup, I see that I should suspect some of
the associated capacitors on the emitter, and perhaps the flyback. Just
checking things with a DMM doesn't reveal anything obvious, the flyback and
yoke seem to have reasonable resistance according to Sam's, nothing else is
outright shorted.

I can get a lot of the parts pretty cheaply, so I thought I'd just go ahead
and replace the flyback, the caps around the HOT, and maybe even the input
transformer. I don't have the test equipment to test much, other than my
DMM, and I usually shy away from the HV sections of anything.

I can't find the HV caps for this beast at a reasonable price. Can anyone
point me toward an inexpensive source of .0082 and .0056uf @ 1.6kv caps?

If you think I'm just ****ing in the wind by doing this, unless I'm checking
for (*insert item here*) please jump in and let me know!

thanks,

John

May also want ot check the supply voltages to the deflection circuits. if
you are losing regulation, B+ going too high, may cause some of your
symptoms. A couple of the caps in the vertical circuit have been know to
cause problems in that specific area also.
"John" wrote in message
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Hello all. This TV died a year ago, and it's been sitting in the living
room ever since. Wife said to fix it or toss it out. It's too big to haul
outside by myself, so I thought I'd give it a go.

I got the Sam's, and found that the HOT (2SD1428) was bad. Bought one,
put
it in and it immediately blew again.

From lurking around in this newsgroup, I see that I should suspect some of
the associated capacitors on the emitter, and perhaps the flyback. Just
checking things with a DMM doesn't reveal anything obvious, the flyback
and
yoke seem to have reasonable resistance according to Sam's, nothing else
is
outright shorted.

I can get a lot of the parts pretty cheaply, so I thought I'd just go
ahead
and replace the flyback, the caps around the HOT, and maybe even the input
transformer. I don't have the test equipment to test much, other than my
DMM, and I usually shy away from the HV sections of anything.

I can't find the HV caps for this beast at a reasonable price. Can anyone
point me toward an inexpensive source of .0082 and .0056uf @ 1.6kv caps?

If you think I'm just ****ing in the wind by doing this, unless I'm
checking
for (*insert item here*) please jump in and let me know!

thanks,

John

thanks. I'll look at that.

John

"Art" wrote in message
...
May also want ot check the supply voltages to the deflection circuits. if
you are losing regulation, B+ going too high, may cause some of your
symptoms. A couple of the caps in the vertical circuit have been know to
cause problems in that specific area also.
"John" wrote in message
...
Hello all. This TV died a year ago, and it's been sitting in the living
room ever since. Wife said to fix it or toss it out. It's too big to
haul
outside by myself, so I thought I'd give it a go.

I got the Sam's, and found that the HOT (2SD1428) was bad. Bought one,
put
it in and it immediately blew again.

From lurking around in this newsgroup, I see that I should suspect some
of
the associated capacitors on the emitter, and perhaps the flyback.
Just
checking things with a DMM doesn't reveal anything obvious, the flyback
and
yoke seem to have reasonable resistance according to Sam's, nothing else
is
outright shorted.

I can get a lot of the parts pretty cheaply, so I thought I'd just go
ahead
and replace the flyback, the caps around the HOT, and maybe even the
input
transformer. I don't have the test equipment to test much, other than
my
DMM, and I usually shy away from the HV sections of anything.

I can't find the HV caps for this beast at a reasonable price. Can
anyone
point me toward an inexpensive source of .0082 and .0056uf @ 1.6kv caps?

If you think I'm just ****ing in the wind by doing this, unless I'm
checking
for (*insert item here*) please jump in and let me know!

thanks,

John