Roy, Here's a few tips for a CTC187 for repeated shorting of HOT. After replacing HOT, TV will play a couple of days and short again, HOT runs hotter than normal. Replace horiz. driver transformer(#215541) and cap C4306(#188594), to solve. Also C4709(47m-50v) can cause HOT to run hot. Also R4402(#175374) can cause HOT to short intermittantly. (replace even if checks OK) Also C4403(#218369) and C4303(#214732) can cause HOT to short intermittantly. Also I presume you've checked the horiz. driver transformer for poor solder connections. HTH Dan Webster Webster's TV Shullsburg, Wi. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Royal19960@xxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:34 PM Subject: [TechAssist] ideas needed for a RCA ctc187cn3 > Hi all. Looks like a bad week. > I have a rca f35670mb with a ctc 187cn3 in the shop, again! > Came in with a squeel, shorted horiz output transistor. Replaced it with an > origional from RCA and ran the set over 10 hours, no problem. Cust picked up > sat and called right away with the same problem. H output bad again. replaced it > along with the timing caps. Set ran againabout 20 hours and then shorted the > output again in the shop. Before this happened I looked at the waveform at the > output and it looked clean. any ideas? > Thanks in advance > Roy > > Bonded TV Service > 5158 W Forest Home Ave > Milwaukee, WI 53219 > 414-541-9111 > Web hosting from only 4.17 @ month at BondedHost.com > over 8,000 tubes at Bondedtv.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/