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Ramone
- Jan 1, 1970
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Hi,
This concerns a 1997 RCA CRT, model # F27680GY.
I had been watching TV for a couple of hours when I heard a small pop from
inside the TV. Within 5 seconds the image went from a pink haze to solid
red. I could see absolutely nothing except red but no problems with the
audio or with changing channels. I did some googling on the topic and, long
story short, I replaced the "red driver" transistor on the socket/akb/svm
board.
So, the TV is "watchable" now but there are still some symptoms...
- There is a gray haze over everything. Even on max contrast and max black,
things that should be black are appearing as light gray. The brights are not
any brighter than usual.
- There are 24 evenly spaced faint thin blue horizontal lines crossing the
screen (these lines were there even during the solid red problem)
- Every time I turn off the unit, there is an intensely bright 2"
halo/rainbow in the middle of the screen for 1 second.
- When I turn the unit off and then on again, right before the image
appears, there is a bright blue horizontal line in the middle of the screen
for 1 second.
Does anyone know if there's another small part to obviously change or is a
whole board fried or worse? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Ramone
This concerns a 1997 RCA CRT, model # F27680GY.
I had been watching TV for a couple of hours when I heard a small pop from
inside the TV. Within 5 seconds the image went from a pink haze to solid
red. I could see absolutely nothing except red but no problems with the
audio or with changing channels. I did some googling on the topic and, long
story short, I replaced the "red driver" transistor on the socket/akb/svm
board.
So, the TV is "watchable" now but there are still some symptoms...
- There is a gray haze over everything. Even on max contrast and max black,
things that should be black are appearing as light gray. The brights are not
any brighter than usual.
- There are 24 evenly spaced faint thin blue horizontal lines crossing the
screen (these lines were there even during the solid red problem)
- Every time I turn off the unit, there is an intensely bright 2"
halo/rainbow in the middle of the screen for 1 second.
- When I turn the unit off and then on again, right before the image
appears, there is a bright blue horizontal line in the middle of the screen
for 1 second.
Does anyone know if there's another small part to obviously change or is a
whole board fried or worse? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Ramone