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Old 08-05-2014, 07:40 AM
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Those sets actually made a good picture when they worked, but my memories of Sharp sets from the 1980s mostly involved replacing countless flybacks that arced through and caught fire on the "H" and "J" series chassis. Usually the flyback took a bunch of other parts with it.

Apparently there was a class action suit and part of the settlement involved free repairs of affected sets. Sharp provided free "meltdown kits" containing the flyback, HOT, LV regulator SCR, and a handful of resistors and caps. The shop I worked at was ordering these kits by the dozen at one point.
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