[Dreamsbeard]

Originally Posted by zeno

Chromatic switch works like this.
OFF ( not red ) works off the normal controls for brite, color, tint
& picture ( contrast ). You can adjust them by hand.
ON ( RED ) turns all those controls OFF. The 4 controls are hollow
& have a duplicate screwdriver control behind the regular control.
When ON you adjust for best pix. It also turns on ATG
( auto tint guard ) that has nothing to do with your troubles.
For now just run it in off.

If you havent check the long package on the 9-88-? They were a
"check EVERY ONE" for cold solder. Most had cold joints after a few yrs.
The 9-89 probably is OK & almost any problem is related to one
color. IIRC it had just the video out & 3 color out transistors.

We refer to short hand module part numbers. Keep in mind many are
newer versions and have more numbers like 9-88-01, 9-90-02,
150-190-01 etc. You need them to get the RIGHT replacements !

Lastly with good grey scale & the G-2 controls at about 25%
you have a as new or nearly CRT.

73 Zeno

the 9-88 looks fine, and after letting the TV play a few more hours and adjusting the "brightness range" I would say that this TV has no brightness problem after all. Picture is amazingly good! (after convergence and focus adjust of course)

Now I really need to get that sound sorted out. I powered the TV today and the sound came back, but with that god awful snow sound. Speaker seems fine (reads 15 ohms). Took a picture of the sound board, would it be possible that the volume wire is not pluged in the right place? (look at the sticker on the bottom left corner).

Also , but this is a minor problem, I seem to be at the extreme (no more range) for the focus adjustement. Fortunatly the focus is good enough, but I can go no further on the adjustment and I do not have sufficient range to see the focus go bad after the sweet spot...does it means that I would need a new focus divider?

Edit

Made a video of the problem : https://youtu.be/2rv4x7kawYg