Fixed my 35" CRT television

tstone

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I've been watching this thing almost every day since I bought it new in 1996.

Recently the height got smaller...and smaller...and eventually I got full vertical collapse.

I was able to open it up and fix it. Looks brand new. I love the picture on this thing.

Man that is a big tube! I stood about 3 feet away when I discharged it.

The chassis was also freaking huge.
 

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Congrats on the fix.
I would have paid someone to take away 32" which was beast but am keeping a 27" around for some reason.
 
Nice!! I kept my 27" which died 5 years ago. It's sitting waiting to be looked out.
 
I sold someone 3 multisyc monitors Mitsubishi 35", a mistubishi 32", and my sony pvm 3230(was folding over). Glad to send them along to someone who wanted them.

The only ones I have left are the 2 sony pvm 2950q's, 2 pvm 2030's, pvm 14m, some amiga 1084s, some commodore 1702's.
 
I pick up a monster tube off cl I'll have to take a picture
 
Before I got into arcade machines several years ago, I put about seven old TVs of varying sizes out to the curb for garbage pickup, not once thinking of possibly using the tubes for this hobby. Now I watch for others being thrown out. :)

Tim
 
soooooo what was the fix?

I found cold solder on one pin of the main vertical deflection IC.

I reflowed that pin, and the pin next to it. That's it.

10 min to get the back off

10 min to discharge the tube 20 times

20 min to figure out which chip was the vertical deflection IC

5 min to fix...
 
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