I have this fdt-5bx5 Sony watchman from the 90s that used to work fine. Many years ago I was doing a setup on it and I screwed something up and the vertical IC went out. I had a bag of what should be NTE equivalents on hand and I tried to use one of them and for whatever reason it didn't work.
This was very long ago and I can't remember exactly what happened, and I'm trying to clean it up now.
So I went in and found that I do have some vertical, it's just very weak and the whole top portion is stretched out, like the way it looks when a vertical IC is going bad or about to blow.
I measured the supply and I found that the 22V supply is on around 14.8V, which is clearly wrong, and no wonder the Vertical isn't verticalling.
So then I looked at the PSU board, but I don't see anything weird. I see the 24V is down at 14.8 like it is on the Vert IC, so that's at least consistent.
Tested a few caps but they look good and everything is very clean and minty and they used Rubycons and this is a ~1994 TV made in Japan with no SMD lytics so I think it's all good.
Could be the NTE replacements don't work? Would they bring down the 24V?
I attached the datasheets of the two Vert ICs. I don't have the service manual in PDF. I have the Sams somewhere, but I also have a link to a forum that someone posted the whole thing here:
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopi...ad7b6#p1497626
Any ideas on where to look?
LA7830.PDF
nte1773.pdf