Obviously almost all of my family's devices recogniced me being out of business due to COVID19 and decided becoming defective in the last time
I already repaired my car, dishwasher, tape recorder, bedroom radio and the most important thing: the electronics modules of my gas heater
Last week my dear mum gave me a call because the power switch of her 1995 CRT TV stopped working mechanically.
Yesterday I took the set apart and replaced the switch I randomly had in my toolbox. Knowing that this TV was intense used during the last 25 years I wanted to know more about the condition of the CRT. As you can see red has approximately 1mA, green and blue 1,2mA emission.
Due to this unexpected good values I further replaced a few dried out electrolytics and adjusted voltages and geometry.
The picture quality is still great and we set an example against throw away society
All in all this set had 3 defects in the last 25 years. I was able to fix all of them with resoldering and non expensive components like resistors and electrolytics. CRT, LOP and LOT are still original from 1995.