Rejuving the CRT Got it going again. I used a SYT 84-1/A CRT Tester/Rejuvinator on the low recovery setting. The Green cathode was showing minimmal emmison the others were poor so rejuved the green 2x and the others once. That got a good picture,the set to come on right away and it not to cut off again when the channel was changed. Peter Oliver Tucson Radio TV From: "D Panday" <dpanday@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: oliver_peter1@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [TechAssist] Sony KV32XBR45 CRT? Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:14:07 -0500 Peter, I am not at the shop to check the schematic. However,I do two procedure:- a. I will rejuvenate the crt, works' most of the time. I explain to the customer and charge a reasonable price. b. Sony had changed the heater supply sometime ago. If you have one heater pin on the crt socket goes to ground. But on the actual cct pcb there are an option to put-in a capacitor with a resistor going to the screen supply or 200 V supply( I am not sure on which supply), this is indirect heating. Whenever, indirect heat is used, you get less problem either for arcing to ground or low cathode current draw, hence IK will not sense a problem. You can check older models of Sony unit and you will find what I am telling you (KV27TS27). There is no way you can change the setup for IK. The feedback goes into the Jungle IC which switches on the RGB signals. If you had the internal operation of the the Jungle IC, then maybe you could try a modification. If IK setup is change to compensate for operation, your crt RGB outputs color will not be right, customer will say the color is not right. I worked on many of the XBR unit, I either change the heater cct if there is the option or rejuvenate the crt with NO Warranty at reasonable cost to the customer.Sometime the rejuvenating of the crt last for 3 months or 3 years, never know! Resistor usually be 100k 1/2W and capacito 1.6KV 471P. Good luck. Panday From: "Peter oliver" <oliver_peter1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TechAssist] Sony KV32XBR45 CRT? Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:25:32 +0000 Sony KV32XBR45 MFD 1996 No picture LED blinks 1 ea sec continious sound ok, Picture will come on after 2 to 8 hours. Saw TV at customers home picture quality= poor-Pinkish then when turned off it goes back to blinking LED after imediate turning on again. Thinking it is a High degree of probabblity the CRT is bad and that the buss is Showing IK fault. Two Questions: 1. Has anyone run into anything other than the CRT that will cause this symptom in these XBR's. (ie screen resistors like the infamous R701 in the S series) 2. If CRT is there a way to bypass/rebias the IK circuit to allow function and the menu rebias of the colors ie. Would a CRT brighter work? reducing the value of the screen resistor to allow more volatge, Grounding and reconnecting mods ... I know upping the screen can help temporaily in some cases but any longer term solution. (workarounds for bad CRT on micro biased systems) Peter Oliver Tucson Radio TV _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ***************************************************************************** Submit A Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ***************************************************************************** For automatic password retrieval 24 hours a day, go to: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". ***************************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ***************************************************************************** Submit A Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ***************************************************************************** For automatic password retrieval 24 hours a day, go to: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". *****************************************************************************