Flyback tester...

It's one of those tools ya prolly won't use more than a few times.. As out of the hundred or so chassis I've worked on, usually I can tell a flyback is blown just by looking at it and or seeing if the hot/fuse/etc is blown...

There have been a few times when I had new DOA flybacks and it could have saved me the hassle of wasted hours not knowing I'd installed a new dead flyback..
 
Pete's 99.99% right.

I have one and used it a few times. And the times I did use it, it was one of the smaller coils blown, this will find it vs having the side of a flyback blown out. Heater coil tap, dying focus coil on the 4900s, stuff like that.

And it's cool.

:-D
 
I use mine regularly. It is good for testing flybacks as well as other transformers. Just last week I found an open on the heater coil within a flyback on a G07. I have also used it to find shorted coils on power supplies. I'd rather spend five minutes testing than $30+ and shipping time on replacing good parts.
 
I work on a lot of monitors, and I have that Blue Ring Tester. Bought it as a build-kit from the maker and put it together myself (saves $ that way). I don't use it a lot, but it's a great tool for verifying a flyback when you're not sure if it's causing a problem...
 
I bought my ESR meter that way took me 3.5 hrs to solder everything on the board. When i got the ring tester I paid the extra $20 to have it assembled.

Andrew

I work on a lot of monitors, and I have that Blue Ring Tester. Bought it as a build-kit from the maker and put it together myself (saves $ that way). I don't use it a lot, but it's a great tool for verifying a flyback when you're not sure if it's causing a problem...
 
I bought my ESR meter that way took me 3.5 hrs to solder everything on the board. When i got the ring tester I paid the extra $20 to have it assembled.

Andrew

3.5 hours? I did the ring tester in about 20 minutes...
 
20 min to install all that? Sure....

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Andrew
 
You've obviously never had a job in doing hand insertion on an electronics manufacturing assembly line. 10 minutes to put all the pieces on the board. 5 minutes to solder and clip, and 5 minutes to assemble properly in the case. The only "difficult" part is making sure the LEDs are at the right height...
 
No I haven't i will be satisfied when I fly out there with my stop watch

Andrew

You've obviously never had a job in doing hand insertion on an electronics manufacturing assembly line. 10 minutes to put all the pieces on the board. 5 minutes to solder and clip, and 5 minutes to assemble properly in the case. The only "difficult" part is making sure the LEDs are at the right height...
 
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