[TechAssist] Re: More CTC169 blues...bad flyback

  • From: HSWAD@xxxxxxx
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:51:14 EST

Send me the complete chassis and model number and I will get the correct 
flyback number for you. Sounds like you are using the wrong one.Hollis Bates, 
field engineer- retired                                                       
                                                         In a message dated 
11/18/02 7:32:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> Subj:[TechAssist] More CTC169 blues...bad flyback 
> Date:11/18/02 7:32:43 PM Eastern Standard Time
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> I'm spending more time on this than I should.
> Unit came in with a hole in the side of the flyback arcing to metal cover 
> for AC
> plug.
> Replaced HOT with RCA original(expensive) and temporarily repaired the 
> flyback
> with silicone to be sure nothing else was amidst.
> Set were fined.
> Order new flyback #232191 which is to replace the original. Now R4762 a 430
> ohm-1watt resistor pretty near catches fire.
> I am on my second new flyback and the same thing happens.
> In between flybacks, I replaced the resistor and put the old patched 
> flyback in
> and the set worked fine.
> I keep putting the customer off who I am sure is getting a little anxious 
> right
> now. Luckily he has faith in me as I repaired this set a year ago when 
> another
> shop couldn't, but this is going to be the third delay I will have to give 
> him.
> I do have a used flyback another shop gave me today that I am tempted to 
> send the
> set out with the used one installed.
> Can anyone guide me to a fix for this, or would you send this out with the 
> used
> FBT after this? Thomson has confirmed I am using the correct flyback.
> Sorry for the long post...never ran into an OEM part that would not work.
> Thank you.
> 
> Jeff
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