That set was selling for about $199.00 jump ship before you drown I refuse to work on any more Apex and I am ASC Robert tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx H & H Electronics Inc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter oliver" <oliver_peter1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:24 PM Subject: [TechAssist] Apex GT2715 with Horz freq drift and Picture size/geometry faults > Thought I would repost this after the holiday to see if there is any hope > for this boat anchor: > > > Apex GT2715 > > Customer was trying to claim they paid $699 for this set > ?????????. It has the picture colapsed into a squashed hexagon (2 inverted > scewed trapazoids about 6" total) where it looks like the top and bottom are > folded over (has retace lines) The OSD is appearing in the area where the > picture is but it is blue screen when the channel is changed it will show > snow (no station) or a picture that has the horizontal frequency drifted way > off (fast moving diagniol pattern). I had a vert Ic for the set in stock > (was an extra from a samsung job TDA8350Q). And have checked the > electrolitics in the vert circuit and also all of the timing caps in the > horz section as well as some along the power input (had another apex that > acted simmilar that had cracked one of these) Customer didn't bring in > remote and none of my universal remotes list apex so getting into the menu > is problematic. A few thoughts I have if any of them could be possible: 1. > eeprom data corrupted; 2. Jungle IC OM8839PS defective (subs?) 3. Bad yoke > (would have to try to ring, doesn't smell like it was shorting) Ideas? > > Peter Oliver > Tucson Radio TV > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/