Woohoo! Sharp 25R-S100 with remote by the side of the road.

[Sandy G]

Aye-Yup... I bought that 36" Trinitron right after they came out, what, late Nineties or early 2000s ?, And it died last fall-CRT would go dark, except for red splotches. In other words, I only got about 15 yrs of life offa it-Pretty shabby when a LOT of us have color sets from the FIFTIES still boogying along.. It COULD have been something simple, but WHO do you take a TV to be fixed anymore ? I'm 57, have a bum knee, & there was NO WAY I could man-handle that 280 lb monster & try to get it into the Mighty Valdez... And even if I DID, how the hell do you get it IN a shop to be fixed ? Terry's the only one I know who could fix it, but I think lugging it into his shop would be pushing our friendship...

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Aye-Yup... I bought that 36" Trinitron right after they came out, what, late Nineties or early 2000s ?, And it died last fall-CRT would go dark, except for red splotches. In other words, I only got about 15 yrs of life offa it-Pretty shabby when a LOT of us have color sets from the FIFTIES still boogying along.. It COULD have been something simple, but WHO do you take a TV to be fixed anymore ? I'm 57, have a bum knee, & there was NO WAY I could man-handle that 280 lb monster & try to get it into the Mighty Valdez... And even if I DID, how the hell do you get it IN a shop to be fixed ? Terry's the only one I know who could fix it, but I think lugging it into his shop would be pushing our friendship...

Bring to mind something most here may not have seen. Dont remember if Sonys did it but something to watch on SS sets.
When the vert output fails sometimes the yoke gets enuf DC on it to pull
the pix off the screen. You will see blurry blotches until you shut the set
off then the the "no vert" line shows up for a second. Very bad for the
set, its the cause of Zeniths getting necked, indirectly cause by the
4 lead cap. So thats one reason why modern sets have shutdown
for no vert along with overcurrent et al. Any newer sets with a vert
output IC should be resoldered, many brands had trouble here.

73 Zeno