TROUBLESHOOTING - CRT TV - NO PICTURE - AUDIO OK - WHITE SCREEN DISPLAY - SINGLE COLORED SCREEN DISPLAY - RASTER WITH RETRACE LINES etc..
Before performing any repair work, a close look to all the
solder terminals at the video output card is necessary. In most cases, loose solder terminals can
cause severe faults that can’t be predictable.
In this section, most of the components will get heated while set
works. Repeated heating and cooling
might make the solder terminals to get loose contacted due to expansion and
contraction of component leads. It is advised
to re-solder all the suspected solder terminals by applying a little more fresh
solder to each terminal, without making any solder bridge short in between adjacent
solder terminals. Always give
preference to this. In most cases, the
cause can be this. Go further only
after this check.
This is the most common fault to CRT TVs, irrespective of
brand. As far as sound is OK, we can determine that all other circuit
sections,
Tuner, Video IF, Audio Processing, Audio Output and all the voltage
lines to
these circuit are OK, unless there might me no audio too. Audio output
can be voice or hissing
noise. Whatever it may be, is there,
and so all the above said circuit sections are functions well. The
fault should be with or around the video
output section circuit. As you know,
from the transmitter, audio, video and sync: signals are transmitted
together
within the carrier wave. Here, TV set
receives all of them, but unable to produce picture on screen. The
raster is Ok. So all the voltages, Filament voltage, Screen voltage,
Focus grid
voltage, EHT voltage are all should be there.
So concentrate on the video output circuit, which processes video
signals to drive the cathodes of the CRT.
Three are many type of video output circuit designs. Some of them uses discrete transistors, and
others uses an IC to process R-G-B signals, or
use 3 Ics to processes these three signals. What ever the type may be, functions to them are equivalent to
each other.
Let’s take a typical video amplifier circuit for
reference. Here I’ve chose a simple
video amplifier circuit, uses with 80% of TVs now in production. It uses three discrete transistors to
amplify the R-G & B video signals, which in turn fed to red, green and blue
cathodes of the picture tube. There is
an other transistor too, witch functions as the current limiter to the above
said three video output transistors.
Check the schematic diagram and follow please. You can enlarge the image here by clicking over it once or two.
Check the circuit.
It is the circuit diagram of Matsui 25M CRT TV. The video output section circuit can be
located at the hack end of the picture tube, will directly plugged on to
it. It can be unplugged out from it, by
a slight straight backward pull.
Just see, there are three transistors for color
amplification. If you look close, the circuit
for each of them is equal to one another.
So, for ease of description, let’s take one among them. Take [Q601]
B-Out. The transistor number is 2SC2621. It is an NPN transistor used
sot amplify Blue signal. See, the collector of that transistor is
connected to Blue cathode of CRT via R605 [3Kohms]. The blue cathode
of the picture tube gets its drive from the
collector point of this transistor. Here,
we have to note other main point.
Actually picture tube is a vacuum tube, very like one used in old vacuum
tube radio sets. It is very similar to construction too. The
point to note is, as the voltage to the
cathode go down with respect to its screen voltage, the emission of the
cathode
will increase, and number of emerging electrons will also increase, and
thereby
that particular cathode will produce its typical color on screen. Thus
if the voltage at the Blue cathode go below normal, the screen
will have a bluish shade, if the red goes low, will produce a red shade,
and if
green goes low, will produce a green shade.
No I thins that, the reason for one color predominant screen by CRT TVs
has cleared.
Now arises the question, why this happens so. Why does the voltage drops below
normal. What are the voltages taken to reference?
Reasons? Rectifications?
ONE COLOR PREDOMINANT SCREEN [RASTER WITH RETRACE LINES - BLUE]
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As discussed earlier, let’s concentrate on Blue Color
Output. Here, see an NPN transistor
[2SC2688] is used. All other color
output section has used this number transistor, and the circuit
configuration
is the same. Come closer to blue color output circuit. The collector of
the transistor is connected
to [+ voltage], generated by the line output transistor. It is fed to
the collector via [L601 &
R604]. Here R604 acts as a current limiting
resistor. The emitter of the transistor
is connected to Ground via R601 and AC is bypassed by C601. The base of
this transistor gets its bias
from the chroma IC, and a variable resistor VC602 controls it. The
emitter of the transistor is also fed a [+ve] voltage to balance the
color intensity (for short).
Let’s examine the situation here. We have no screen at all now.
Only sound output is there. No screen or picture.
Check the voltage at
the collector of Q601. If yes [at about
200VDC], measure the voltage at its base.
Should be a small voltage [about 2V or so]. If not, suspect the chroma processor IC. If yes, suspect the transistor. If
transistor is opened, or there is some loose solder terminals either its
collector or emitter, it won’t conduct.
The voltage at its collector will be high, and there will be no emission
from the blue cathode. But, if this is
the case, there will be picture or screen, but the intensity of blue will be
less or absent.
Here we have not screen at all. Assuming that the [200VDC]
for video output section is OK. If so,
the line output transformer and line output section circuit are performing
well. There will be Focus voltage,
screen voltage and EHT. Then what might
be the cause for no screen? Surely
there should be high voltage at all the three cathodes of the picture tube. If the voltage is low, you will see either a
plain white raster with thin retrace lines all over across it, or a color predominant
screen with retrace lines. Here the
voltage is high, means, the transistors are not working.
Unplug the connection pin {R-G-B]. Switch On the set. No
effect? Replace Q640. It might be open. But before replacing it, de-solder it out from the circuit, and
check whether R641 & R642 are OK.
This might be the cause.
But, if any of the coil connected in series with the
collectors of any color output transistors, or the resistor in series has
opened, you will get a color predominant screen with retrace lines. If Red color output transistor loss its
voltage, you will see a red screen, if green output transistor loss its voltage,
it will be green and if the blue loses
will produce blue.
voltage or defective picture tube]
