Electroinics Engineers scare the krap outta me, no common sense! Does he by any chance have external speakers connected to the tv AND to a stereo system so that when he turns on the stereo he is blasting a couple hundred watts into the tv speaker jacks? Now a highly intelligent Electronics Technician........there ya go......lots of common sense! ******************************************************************************************************************* Since 1972 Jim Myers Telrad Electronics Fort Wayne, Indiana Gemini Computer & TV wrote: > I have a customer (who is an electronics engineer) with a Sony KV32XBR96S > who brought in his set (as he lives outside my in-home service area) back in > January for a dead set condition. I had found the front audio amp IC > (IC1401) blown with a hole in it. There were also other damaged components > as well that were replaced with Sony originals. Here is a list of those > parts: > IC1401 > IC1501 > D1409 > D1410 > D1411 > C661 > C662 > C668 > VDR602 > R623 > > Everything was fine until the beginning of June when the customer once again > brought it in for a dead set condition again. This time I found and replaced > the following components with Sony originals: > IC1401 > D1409 > D1410 > D1411 > > I completed the repair on Friday, 06/18/2004 and let the set run continously > around the clock until he picked it up on Thursday, 06/24/2004. I had > informed the customer that IC1401 once again had a hole blown in it and had > him check the external speaker wire connections to make sure that none had > excessive length of exposed bare copper at either end when he returned home. > The set ran great Thursday, Friday, and part of Saturday but then the > customer states he lost audio for about 15 minutes, then lost the picture, > smelled burning, and the set returned to it's same old dead set condition. I > just got off the phone with him and explained that it sounds like that > IC1401 may have blown again but I am at a loss to explain the reason for a > repeated failure and that I would pose this question to my fellow > technicians on the various email forums to which I am a member. So now let > me request your collective ideas! > > Bob Waterman, CET® #RI-28 > Master Technician License #9109 > Service Manager / Parts Manager > Gemini Computer, TV, & Security Alarms > (508)695-7302 > (508)695-7769 FAX > geminitv@xxxxxxxxxxx > geminitv@xxxxxxx > www.geminicomputertvsecurityalarms.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/