Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-22 Thread Richard Rasker
Op vrijdag 21-12-2007 om 20:52 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Peter Clifton: > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 15:17 -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: > > > This is a very weird set of problems. > > > > RGB lines indicate a failure of the vertical amp, which the shrinking > > picture also indicates. > > > > Chec

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Darryl Gibson wrote: >Dan McMahill wrote: >> By far the worst shock I've ever received was 23 years ago working on a >> Fender Bassman that was unplugged. I will *never* forget to discharge >> caps again. Especially ones charged up to 500 volts. Thats one of >> thos

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Darryl Gibson
Dan McMahill wrote: > > By far the worst shock I've ever received was 23 years ago working on a > Fender Bassman that was unplugged. I will *never* forget to discharge > caps again. Especially ones charged up to 500 volts. Thats one of > those mistakes you won't make twice. Yep, that's a ba

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread John Doty
On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:06 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: >>> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/sony_be3d.pdf >>> >>> I found myself wondering.. could you make a schematic / layout >>> like this >>> with gEDA? >> >> I suppose. How is that form be

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Dan McMahill
Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 15:26 -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: >> Ian Chapman wrote: >>> The last time I fixed a TV I resoldered all the joints on the nec board. >>> That's the round thing on the end of the tube. I found it by wiggling >>> wires. Try moving the wires on the horizo

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Dan McMahill
Ben Jackson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 04:06:55PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: >> The PCB overlays could be the "assembly" prints that PCB already does. > > I would like to see better assembly diagrams. The actual silkscreen has > to stay off the pads (and out from under chips, if you want to s

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 04:06:55PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > The PCB overlays could be the "assembly" prints that PCB already does. I would like to see better assembly diagrams. The actual silkscreen has to stay off the pads (and out from under chips, if you want to see it). The assembly draw

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:06 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/sony_be3d.pdf > > > > I found myself wondering.. could you make a schematic / layout like this > > with gEDA? > > I suppose. How is that form better than what we have? > > The PCB overlays could be the "a

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:06 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/sony_be3d.pdf > > > > I found myself wondering.. could you make a schematic / layout like this > > with gEDA? > > I suppose. How is that form better than what we have? > > The PCB overlays could be the "a

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/sony_be3d.pdf > > I found myself wondering.. could you make a schematic / layout like this > with gEDA? I suppose. How is that form better than what we have? The PCB overlays could be the "assembly" prints that PCB already does.

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 15:26 -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: > Ian Chapman wrote: > > The last time I fixed a TV I resoldered all the joints on the nec board. > > That's the round thing on the end of the tube. I found it by wiggling > > wires. Try moving the wires on the horizontal deflection coils l

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 15:17 -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: > This is a very weird set of problems. > > RGB lines indicate a failure of the vertical amp, which the shrinking > picture also indicates. > > Check the coupling capacitor between the vertical amp, and the yoke? Thanks, will do when I've

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Darryl Gibson
Ian Chapman wrote: > The last time I fixed a TV I resoldered all the joints on the nec board. > That's the round thing on the end of the tube. I found it by wiggling > wires. Try moving the wires on the horizontal deflection coils looking at > the screen with a mirror. Do not worry about the hig

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Darryl Gibson
Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:32 +, Peter Clifton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm fixing (or trying to) a TV for a friend, and wondered if anyone had >> any wisdom relating to the following symptom. >> >> This is a Sony BE-3D chassis, and exhibits an intermittent fault. When >> its do

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-21 Thread Ian Chapman
The last time I fixed a TV I resoldered all the joints on the nec board. That's the round thing on the end of the tube. I found it by wiggling wires. Try moving the wires on the horizontal deflection coils looking at the screen with a mirror. Do not worry about the high voltages if it was not d

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Greg Cunningham
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:46 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to fix TVs in a TV repair > shop. Maybe I remember some of what I knew then, but the jury is out > on that one. > > I'd take a look at the driver transistor for the vertical oscillator, > or an

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Peter Clifton wrote: >Hi, > >I'm fixing (or trying to) a TV for a friend, and wondered if anyone had >any wisdom relating to the following symptom. > >This is a Sony BE-3D chassis, and exhibits an intermittent fault. When >its doing it, the picture is still visible, bu

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:46 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to fix TVs in a TV repair > shop. Maybe I remember some of what I knew then, but the jury is out > on that one. > > I'd take a look at the driver transistor for the vertical oscillator, > or a

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Stuart Brorson
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to fix TVs in a TV repair shop. Maybe I remember some of what I knew then, but the jury is out on that one. I'd take a look at the driver transistor for the vertical oscillator, or any of it supporting components. It sounds like the vertical sweep osc

Re: gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:32 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fixing (or trying to) a TV for a friend, and wondered if anyone had > any wisdom relating to the following symptom. > > This is a Sony BE-3D chassis, and exhibits an intermittent fault. When > its doing it, the picture is stil

gEDA-user: Any TV repair gurus lurking?

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi, I'm fixing (or trying to) a TV for a friend, and wondered if anyone had any wisdom relating to the following symptom. This is a Sony BE-3D chassis, and exhibits an intermittent fault. When its doing it, the picture is still visible, but collapsed (jitteringly) upwards towards the top of the s