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Old 01-24-2022, 09:43 PM
Benyamin39 Benyamin39 is offline
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This TV have also AKB. I deactivated it and the picture is very Red, so the AKB has reached its limits. Definitely the tube is very old. Somehow I can understand Sony's policy back then to shutoff the TV past a certain point.

I tried to boost the heater voltage by about 30% but that did not change anything. I read somewhere that not all tubes can be boosted that way.

I ended up dismantling the TV to keep the PCB as spare parts and the yoke and magnetic strips. The good news is I just found recently in my neighborhood someone selling a very similar model TV KV29-J MF1. The tube is still in very good shape, the convergence pretty good. I just had to apply 2 magnets to correct the geometry and I was good to go.

It was a good learning, thx for all the tips.
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