hi
i've had to get my relatively new AWA tv model W571 repaired now 3
times and it's still not working right. $200 out of pocket and 10 days
with no tv((((( F***!
problem is perfect sound but no picture just a blue screen with white
lines going across it.When you first turn on tv there is a faint
picture like looking through a photograph negative,then within 5
seconds that goes leaving just the blue screen with the white lines.
Repair guy gets it going in workshop leaves it running for several
hours but whenever i get it back it goes again.First time i got it back
it was ok for 4 days the second time i got it back within an hour the
same problem ocurred.
Trying to read original repair warranty is difficult because of
handwriting but there are references to ''blue screen and flybook
line''s.''Trace features to picture tube and tube socket''.
''Dislodge internal foreign material,'' then something that looks like
''heaters to cathode'',''short circuit on blue gun'' ''repair tele
socket on picture circuit board'' ''replace heater dropping resistor &
check plater circuit'' ''very extensive bench test''.

The tv is only 14 months old
I could get someone else to look at it but then i have to start all
over again money-wise and i've already paid $200!
Does anybody have any suggestions?
thanks
p***ed off tv viewer((

If you've got a heater to cathode short, there is no repairing by
conventional methods. Even a crt rejuvinator can't remove those shorts.
The only way to do it, and it's not always 100%, is to defeat the
heater line to the crt, meaning any path to chassis ground, and do a
wire wrap around the core of the flyback. You're creating a new heater
line free of the circuit ground. The cathode can short to the heater
all day long and won't make a difference.

well hopefully the technicial knows this?But maybe he only works along
''conventional methods? How would you know.?!
It sounds like from your post (not a criticism btw) that the tv can't
be fixed?

Take it back to them if you have payed them money...yikes.


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hi
i've had to get my relatively new AWA tv model W571 repaired now 3
times and it's still not working right. $200 out of pocket and 10 days
with no tv((((( F***!
problem is perfect sound but no picture just a blue screen with white
lines going across it.When you first turn on tv there is a faint
picture like looking through a photograph negative,then within 5
seconds that goes leaving just the blue screen with the white lines.
Repair guy gets it going in workshop leaves it running for several
hours but whenever i get it back it goes again.First time i got it back
it was ok for 4 days the second time i got it back within an hour the
same problem ocurred.
Trying to read original repair warranty is difficult because of
handwriting but there are references to ''blue screen and flybook
line''s.''Trace features to picture tube and tube socket''.
''Dislodge internal foreign material,'' then something that looks like
''heaters to cathode'',''short circuit on blue gun'' ''repair tele
socket on picture circuit board'' ''replace heater dropping resistor &
check plater circuit'' ''very extensive bench test''.

The tv is only 14 months old
I could get someone else to look at it but then i have to start all
over again money-wise and i've already paid $200!
Does anybody have any suggestions?
thanks
p***ed off tv viewer((

he can't fix it today supposedly booked out,He's collecting it from me
(again!) early monday morning.So no tv all weekend.Virtually had no tv
for over a week now already.

spake thus:

he can't fix it today supposedly booked out,He's collecting it from me
(again!) early monday morning.So no tv all weekend.Virtually had no tv
for over a week now already.

You'll be better off for it. Read a book.


--
The only reason corrupt Republicans rule the roost in Washington
is because the corrupt Democrats can't muster any viable opposition.

"David Nebenzahl" bravely wrote to "All" (27 Jan 06 17:14:09)
--- on the heady topic of " AWA tv repaired - 3 times still not working right"

DN From: David Nebenzahl
DN Xref: core-easynews sci.electronics.repair:356716

DN spake thus:

he can't fix it today supposedly booked out,He's collecting it from me
(again!) early monday morning.So no tv all weekend.Virtually had no tv
for over a week now already.

DN You'll be better off for it. Read a book.


I watched an interview with the Italian movie star Marcello Mastroiani
on TV once where (paraphrasing) he stated TV is garbage, there is
nothing good to watch on TV except maybe the odd documentary about
animals. The man wasn't totally wrong except he didn't get the irony
of being interviewed for TV.

A*s*i*m*o*v

.... This message transmitted on 100% recycled photons.

Asimov wrote:
"David Nebenzahl" bravely wrote to "All" (27 Jan 06 17:14:09)
--- on the heady topic of " AWA tv repaired - 3 times still not working right"

DN From: David Nebenzahl
DN Xref: core-easynews sci.electronics.repair:356716

DN spake thus:

he can't fix it today supposedly booked out,He's collecting it from me
(again!) early monday morning.So no tv all weekend.Virtually had no tv
for over a week now already.

DN You'll be better off for it. Read a book.


I watched an interview with the Italian movie star Marcello Mastroiani
on TV once where (paraphrasing) he stated TV is garbage, there is
nothing good to watch on TV except maybe the odd documentary about
animals. The man wasn't totally wrong except he didn't get the irony
of being interviewed for TV.
A*s*i*m*o*v

during my time studying media i attended a conference where it was
revealed that with the proliferation of private tv and pay tv channels
in Uk since the Broadcasting act 1990, the greatest increase in
programming (over 100%) was: old nature films. So , that leopard you
saw last week has probably been dead 10 years! But the channels are
raking it in, just buying up old stock and repeating as opposed to
actually investing in new stuff.
Disturbingly, non-news factual programming, such as documentaries or
debates, had dropped by 70% . So much for 'more choice'. TV seems to be
there for the sole aim of making people ignorant and uninformed. Sad
really given the potential for good use of such technology....
-rant mode off!-

-B.

On 27 Jan 2006 15:20:00 -0800, wrote:

The tv is only 14 months old
I could get someone else to look at it but then i have to start all
over again money-wise and i've already paid $200!
Does anybody have any suggestions?
thanks
p***ed off tv viewer((


The only spec I found implied this is a 20inch set, and that does not
sound like it's worth that much in repair costs. What is so special
about that TV making it worth spending $200?

Post the FCC ID from the back of the set, it may give a clue as to who
actually built it.

BTW, if you are going to post the same question in numerous forums or
groups, then you could at least use the same subject line.