Phil; IK circuit should never have been employed. Another Sony innovation...either a "good" picture....or "no" picture. But these were the "SONY" years.;-) -Ed- -- Tel-Tek Electronics Ontario-Canada teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx teltek@xxxxxxxxx > From: Phil Bader <tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:14:48 -0400 > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Sony KV32S25 pix blinks > > Russ, I have always felt Sony set thetheir IK cut off too sensitive. I > would bet the CRT is aging. You can try slightly advancing the G2 on the > fly and see,this sometimes helps. As a test, I used to jumper the CRT > filament resistor to increase the CRT fil. voltage. This increases CRT > emission and the IK will not blank. But, this shortens the CRT life (I > mean to weeks!) so don't leave it that way. > Or here's a mod that is supposed to work: cut and pasted from email > archives. > > Finally, a simple way to defeat the IK problem. >>>> ************************************************************** >>>> >>>> Take three 18K resistors and connect one end of each to the Red , Green > >> and > >>>>>> Blue Cathodes , the solder the other ends all together. >>>>>> >>>>>> This works perfect , you can see the image come up as the filaments warm >>> >>> >> up. > >>>>>> >>>>>> Image looks like crap because of the dead green cathode BUT picture is= >>> >>> > not > >>>>>>> flashing....and that is all the customer wanted.. >>>> > > Philip Bader > Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976) > 3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880 > Fax (863) 299-8821 > email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Hoyt's TV wrote: > >> Sony KV32S25 >> Picture/video blinks for a couple minutes when first turned on, then stays >> on. >> CRT does not look soft like I expected, so I could blame the IK circuit. >> Left it in customers home while I researched it. >> Didn't find this in any databases. >> Anyone seen this? >> >> >> Russ Hoyt >> Hoyt's TV >> Exeter, NH >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm >> Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >> Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ >> >> >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/