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Proton WT-3650 intermittently bright crt.
This Proton WT-3650 television is about eleven years old. The CRT has a 16X9
aspect ratio. The symptom was that the power relay would just click, click, click, upon power on. I found and replaced two shorted diodes in the switching power supply. I also checked for cold solder joints and bad caps. None of the caps was even close to being out of spec. Now the picture and sound work fine but occasionally there will be a bright flash on the screen. As it warms up, it gets worse. Sometimes the picture will just come on as though the screen voltage were turned way up and you'll see retrace lines. I've tapped and jiggled all the boards but can't seem to find anything that will make the problem appear or disappear (depending on which state it is in) with a tap of a screwdriver. Does this sound more like a CRT problem, an intermittent flyback, or something else? Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA |
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Proton WT-3650 intermittently bright crt.
What effect do you get when tapping lightly on the CRT neck or on the actual
CRT Board? Possible intermittant short within the CRT or maybe just falty connections on the CRT Drive Board. "David Farber" wrote in message ... This Proton WT-3650 television is about eleven years old. The CRT has a 16X9 aspect ratio. The symptom was that the power relay would just click, click, click, upon power on. I found and replaced two shorted diodes in the switching power supply. I also checked for cold solder joints and bad caps. None of the caps was even close to being out of spec. Now the picture and sound work fine but occasionally there will be a bright flash on the screen. As it warms up, it gets worse. Sometimes the picture will just come on as though the screen voltage were turned way up and you'll see retrace lines. I've tapped and jiggled all the boards but can't seem to find anything that will make the problem appear or disappear (depending on which state it is in) with a tap of a screwdriver. Does this sound more like a CRT problem, an intermittent flyback, or something else? Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA |
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Proton WT-3650 intermittently bright crt.
"David Farber" wrote in message
... This Proton WT-3650 television is about eleven years old. The CRT has a 16X9 aspect ratio. The symptom was that the power relay would just click, click, click, upon power on. I found and replaced two shorted diodes in the switching power supply. I also checked for cold solder joints and bad caps. None of the caps was even close to being out of spec. Now the picture and sound work fine but occasionally there will be a bright flash on the screen. As it warms up, it gets worse. Sometimes the picture will just come on as though the screen voltage were turned way up and you'll see retrace lines. I've tapped and jiggled all the boards but can't seem to find anything that will make the problem appear or disappear (depending on which state it is in) with a tap of a screwdriver. Does this sound more like a CRT problem, an intermittent flyback, or something else? Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA "Art" wrote in message news What effect do you get when tapping lightly on the CRT neck or on the actual CRT Board? Possible intermittant short within the CRT or maybe just falty connections on the CRT Drive Board. No change when tapping the CRT or drive board. I checked the G2 screen voltage and when the picture is good, it's about 340 volts, when it goes bright, the voltage drops to about 300 volts. I first checked the voltage with my x1K probe because I didn't know how off this measurement was going to be. Then when I switched to my regular probes, it measured less than half that voltage, about 140 volts. I checked the calibration of the x1K probe and it was accurate to 100 volts which of course makes comparing these readings almost meaningless. More interesting than the actual numbers is that when using the regular probes, the screen got brighter just by checking the G2 voltage. So this must be a very high impedance source or maybe this is an indication of what is wrong. Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA |
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Proton WT-3650 intermittently bright crt.
"David Farber" wrote in message ... "David Farber" wrote in message ... This Proton WT-3650 television is about eleven years old. The CRT has a 16X9 aspect ratio. The symptom was that the power relay would just click, click, click, upon power on. I found and replaced two shorted diodes in the switching power supply. I also checked for cold solder joints and bad caps. None of the caps was even close to being out of spec. Now the picture and sound work fine but occasionally there will be a bright flash on the screen. As it warms up, it gets worse. Sometimes the picture will just come on as though the screen voltage were turned way up and you'll see retrace lines. I've tapped and jiggled all the boards but can't seem to find anything that will make the problem appear or disappear (depending on which state it is in) with a tap of a screwdriver. Does this sound more like a CRT problem, an intermittent flyback, or something else? Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA "Art" wrote in message news What effect do you get when tapping lightly on the CRT neck or on the actual CRT Board? Possible intermittant short within the CRT or maybe just falty connections on the CRT Drive Board. No change when tapping the CRT or drive board. I checked the G2 screen voltage and when the picture is good, it's about 340 volts, when it goes bright, the voltage drops to about 300 volts. I first checked the voltage with my x1K probe because I didn't know how off this measurement was going to be. Then when I switched to my regular probes, it measured less than half that voltage, about 140 volts. I checked the calibration of the x1K probe and it was accurate to 100 volts which of course makes comparing these readings almost meaningless. More interesting than the actual numbers is that when using the regular probes, the screen got brighter just by checking the G2 voltage. So this must be a very high impedance source or maybe this is an indication of what is wrong. Thanks for your reply. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA The problem turned out to be an intermittent NPN regulator transistor, Q901, BC547. It is located on the CRT board. It supplies a low voltage to the emitters of the RGB drive transistors. The voltage drop across the B-E junction went from .6 volts to .9 volts and that's what tipped me off. -- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA |
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