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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
I unboxed, set up and delivered many a set like that too. It was not unusual to see the CTC101(?) 13" thru 19" XL and Colortraks from about 2 years earlier come in at the same time for the "factory flyback kit" special. I think they sent us parts at cost to do the repairs as the sets exceeded 1 year usually.
We wondered if the new ones would keep us busy 2 years later but I dont think they did.  |
Yeah, it was a short run of flybacks in the 1981 model year. I was surprised when I got a call from a customer with a ColorTrak 2000 I had sold him that went dead. I thought it was a nuisance call but was surprised to find the horiz output shorted. Put in a new one and blam. I figured the retrace cap must have been open (like those GEs did), but the cap was good. Stunned to find a bad flyback.
The incidence of any RCA needing a flyback after they went to the Trans Vista and XL100 solid state TVs from the early 70s on was virtually nonexistent.
According to our field rep, it had something to do with a bad batch of epoxy used to encapsulate the transformer.
John
02-13-2020, 06:46 AM
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