Problem with a WG 27K7371

Gambeno

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Last night my Screen went all crazy and I heard what sounded like something being fried. I turned the machine off and open the back but saw nothing or smelt nothing. Anyway to actually see what was going on I plugged it back up and from what I could tell electricity was forming all around the Flyback Transformer. It was pretty intense. Anyway any suggestions on what could be the cause of this?
Thanks,
Kane
 
Sounds like your flyback went. After you unplug it and it cools down, shine around the flyback with a flashlight and inspection mirror if needed. You will probably see a crack or some melted plastic on the flyback. I had a K7000 monitor do the same thing. Replaced the flyback and did a cap kit at the same time worked great after that. Hopefully nothing else was damaged in the chassis when the flyback made your light show.
 
inspect the bottom of the chassis, particularly on one side of the C36.. yours could potentially have gotten nuked like mine did if you're actually smelling it burned up.

if the flyback's old, black knob white knob whatever, it's probably in your best interest to change it out anyway, though yours is obviously dead. like I said in Broodwich's thread though, I just overhaul everything on a K7000 if it's mine to keep for a long time. which consists of:

-caps
-flyback
-HOT
-VR (IC4?)
-fuse
-C36/C38 optional

that way when you're changing everything, you're about 85% of the way to reflowing everything anyway, the last pieces of the puzzle being the signal header and the neckboard. then you're mint. especially if you have a high quality tube like I've been blessed with on my 2 K7000s.
 
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shit dude, my bad. I thought it was a K7000. I read your model # wrong lol

I'm sure the same rules apply though to any monitor chassis though... just the K7000 was a particularly destructive bird when the flybacks fail.
 
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