Al I had the same problem,and fixed it by lowering the beam current. Turn the screen control on the flyback as low as you can and turn the brightness control up very high. That solved several problems I had with the CTC 203 chassis. HTH John H Smit Smit's TV Service Box10 Gunnison Utah 84634 800-355-4948 Phone&Fax 435-528-7955 Phone&Fax jhsm@xxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: al m <ampm@xxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:31 AM Subject: [TechAssist] F32649 CTC203CA9 need info > This set came in with regulator shorted. Replaced regulator with reg.kit > and set lasted 3 weeks and came back with horizontal output shorted and > cr14402 shorted. Found bad solder on drive transformer ( I know should have > checked the first time) replaced and set came back 2 weeks later same > problem. Found flyback had only 6 rings. Replaced flyback and now the timing > is 12.3ms and the load test shows 86 ma which says bad on the sencore > tester. The set runs good and the only pin that drops the load is the > filament pin. My question is can anyone verify that 12.3ms is correct for > this set and that 86ma is right also. I have no other sets to check to make > sure. Thanks. > Al Marquardt > ampm@xxxxxxx > Al Marquardt Electronic Repair > 206 W Main > Girardville Pa. 17935 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/