[TechAssist] Re: Toshiba 37C40, TAC9316, interesting problem, need service manual.

  • From: Phil Bader <tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:16:01 -0400

Those green thin lines throughout the picture is usually vertical 
retrace lines, usually blanked out in a healthy TV. Retrace can be seen 
if a certain CRT gun is set too high, or if there is a CRT internal short.
Phil

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Kevin's TV Repair wrote:

>This 35" set has the green cathode shorted to ground (bright green
>picture with retrace lines).  I isolated the heater circuit by using the
>flyback wrap.  It worked, but the set thinks there is a problem still
>and is in what I call "error mode".  The picture has a greenish tinge to
>it as though it needs to have the grey scale set up.  But I have seen
>this same greenish raster in this exact TV about 4 years ago, when the
>tuner had a partial short inside.  The set had the same greenish blank
>raster on every input including TV (no snow with the cable
>disconnected).  With the TV on Video 1, 2 or 3, I noticed this time if I
>look at the green raster very closely, that there are green lines evenly
>spaced throughout the picture from top to bottom.  This is not a gray
>scale problem, but is some sort of default error mode. 
>
>Does anyone know how to disable this "error mode"?  Thanks. 
>
>Kevin Wilks
>Kevin's TV Repair
>Penticton BC Canada 
>kevintv@xxxxxxx
>
>
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