Jungle IC replacement in a '99 Zenith

[zeno]

Originally Posted by lnx64

So weird, I've never seen the jungle IC's ever fail. I thought they are actually quite robust. Is this only to Zenith, or did other manufacturers have issues too?

A good lightning strike almost guarantied killing one.
Also there was the Toshiba TA8680. Went in Toshibas, Sharp,
Gold Star & others. Changed tons of them under warranty
for buzz in audio or AFT problems. New ones were updated
& ran fine. So they can go bad, not common or rare.........

73 Zeno