Re: Phillips HDTV Turned Green

Bill Schmidt wrote:
Thanks for the response, Jer, but someone else suggested elsewhere
that the blue lamp was probably going, and would eventually have to be
replaced. So, I guess I'll just have to wait until it happens again to
see if the lamp did fail, as I don't know how to test the degaussing
coil or circuit. Nor would I feel comfortable replacing either of
those. So I hope it is a lamp.

Any additional opinions as to the nature of the problem iwould
therefore also be appreciated.

Thanks

Bill


Re-reading your post (which I didn't do very well the first time), you said it was a RPTV, and I don't know if it even has a degaussing coil - I know CRT TV's have degaussing coils. In older sets, there was a button somewhere to momentarily activate it, but newer CRT TV designs activated the degaussing coil automagically every time the set was turned on, saving them the cost of one entire push button, and saving the hearts of many people that had the curiosity to ask 'what's this button for' and the guts to actually push it. On my old set, after the coil circuit went tits up, the screen center was green, outside that it was orange (odd), outside that it was blue - a virtual kaleidescope of a low-def color TV - auspiciously like being on acid. Again. Scary, that.

I hope it's a lamp too.


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