Re: TV repair question

Thanks for your reply. This set has been used almost daily for 23
years. It's been in dorm rooms, living rooms, family rooms, bedrooms.
No remote and a mechanical tuner. I have gotten my money out of it for
sure. If I _can_ fix it cheaply I'd like to, simply "because I can".
If the tube was obviously bad, it would be in the trash tomorrow. But
I think the shop was just giving up on it, and the tube is probably
fine. I can't blame them for not spending a lot of time on it, there
is no repair money to be made.

Replacing every cap on the chassis was my fall back position. It
probably wouldn't cost more than $10. I'll think about getting a meter
too.


JANA wrote:
You probably have more bad caps than what commonly goes bad. You will need
some test gear and the knowledge to locate, and change them. If you invest
in an ESR meter to test the caps directly, this would be a start.

When servicing these old sets, it is common to have to change many caps.
Especially if the set was not used, many of the caps probably have to be
changed.

If you need an extra TV set, you would be best off to buy a new low cost
set. At least it should go trouble free for about 3 to 4 years, and it will
have a minimum 1 year warranty with it.

--

JANA
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<wn513@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Sampo color TV from the early 80's which has what may be this
problem from the sci.electronics.repair FAQ:

http://www.repairfaq.org/samnew/tvfaq/tvvbocbar.htm
"Vertical brightness or color bars
These are typically more or less equally spaced possibly more evident
at the left side of the screen. They result only in brightness or color
variations, not deflection speed. Diagonal lines are straight and not
squiggly.
Note that the appearance of these bars differs from those caused by
ringing in the deflection circuits where diagonal lines will show a
squiggling stair-step appearance.
The most likely cause is a dried up electrolytic capacitor in the scan
derived power supply for the video or chroma circuits or video output.
Check for this ripple with a scope or test/replace any suspect
capacitors."

The bars I'm seeing are 1/2 to 1 inch wide, with 1/2 to 1 inch between
them.

I have the schematic and can do my own repair work, but needed some
help with the troubleshooting since I don't have a scope or signal
generator. For a small fee, a local shop marked 10 caps on the
schematic for me to replace. None solved the problem- in fact of the
10, 2 were not even on the board. On the second attempt, their tech
claimed to have tracked a signal from the tuner to the final video
driver and everything seemed fine. Their final answer was "the tube
must be bad".

I'm not ready to give up yet. The colors and picture quality are fine,
except for vertical stripes of increased brightness across the screen.
If I can fix this set I'd really like to, as it is the last piece of
"repairable" electronic gear I will probably ever own. Repair shops
will not fix anything this old, for obvious reasons.

All advice appreciated.

.

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