Looking for repair ideas on a projection TV.

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It sounds like something relatively simple, if you know what you're doing and have a good eye, look for dry or cracked solder joints around the tuner ground shield (not sure if Proscan PTV's suffer this but direct views certainly do) if it still has the problem then look for the same thing on the power supply board. If you don't know what you're doing I highly suggest having a pro look at it, if the picture is still good when it works it should still have some life left on it, if you poke around without knowledge you could easily do a lot more damage.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:44:08 GMT, Gave us:

I would check the power supply for the entire unit. Soft on switches and standby start-up circuitry keeps this power supply up, and the only thing that changes on start up is the loading. If it fails, and then requires a rest before working again, it sounds like dried out electrolytics on the supply or perhaps the IR/soft on circuitry. Electrolytics are always the first thing I check out on older power supplies. I know that 5 years isn't very old, but there have been some bad batches made over the years. I recall a motherboard recall at one point where the electrolytics had bad paste mixes in them.

Anyway, that is a likely culprit. Another might be enough dust on a part that it doesn't give up its heat well, and eventually runs away.

Be careful of the anode leads on those guns. Projection sets have some mean juice there.

Another alternative is to bypass the soft start altogether, and use a hard switch on the unit. Some of the convenience takes a hike, but it makes it a working unit again. Must fully power down (unplug) to save juice in the interim times though.

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Now I just knew that if only we could all be sufficiently patient, you (Dark Matter) would and could rise to the occasion with a coherent answer somewhere above the crude monosyllabic responses for which you have become infamous. Keep up the good work; there may yet be a place for you in the family h*mo erectus.

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:09:52 -0700, "Baphomet" Gave us:

More proof that it is you that is the goddamned troll here. I have made hundreds of such posts. Your mother should have flushed your shit ass, the moment you exited hers.

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! That would be TECHNICIAN, but you have him nailed. ...and keep top-posting. I don't particularly like it, but it drives DimBulb

Indeed. Some want to steal other's happiness though.

Hey! Honest people shovel sludge! It's an important profession! DOn't confuse DimBulb with anyone doing an honest day's work!

DimBulb is a cancer on many groups. Treat it as such.

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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:49:14 -0400, "Arthur Jernberg" Gave us:

I think you are a top posting usenet retard, boy.

I was the one that gave the guy the assistance, dipshit.

BLAPOMET or whatever the f*ck's name is is the one that came in here chomping at his troll bit, jumping on me. YOU need to figure out what the hell you are saying and who you are saying it to. RIGHT AFTER you read up on the proper way to post to a usenet news group.

By the way, dipshit, Usenet has been an anonymous realm for decades. Nicknames are perfectly acceptable so get a friggin' clue, boy.

Also, it is "TECHNICIAN", you dumbass.

And "DILIGENCE"

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:48:51 -0700, "Baphomet" Gave us:

What part of "That makes you a piece of shit" do you not understand, boy?

Also note that it's considered poor Usenet form to nitpick spelling errors. Personally, flamewars and trolling are in poor taste.

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The part that suggested I exited her ass, troll boy. Now that I think of it, that may well have been the way you were conceived.

Did you take a few belts of Old English to get up the nerve to start posting again?

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:43:18 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com Gave us:

Not "form", dingledorf, etiquette.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:07:21 -0400, JW Gave us:

I've got nine inches of "tiny bark" for your lame ass, little girl.

Dark, you are such a jerk that it is mind numbing.

Oh, you mean the posts that you don't make, aren't archived by Google, and if they are, are forged by someone other than yourself? Those posts?

When is a post not a post?

He's setting "X-No-Archive: yes" in the headers, which Google is supposedly honoring. I guess he feels that even his technical posts aren't worth saving.

If you're posting good info, it's silly to not let it get archived. Groups.google.com is a valuable asset for those that know how to use it. Why post a question that's already been answered when you can just google for it?

Oh, and I said 'form', because I thought the word 'etiquette' too fancy of a word for such a mud-slinging thread.

-Chris