21 Inch JCV Television came in dead NOW repaired!

I received a phone call from my neighbor who wanted his television checked by a technician, I passed by his place and picked the television.

 I went back to the shop and after applying power via my series current limiter bulb I noted the Television has no sigh of life.

 But listening carefully I could hear some chi-chi sound coming from I can’t tell exactly where. I opened the television and tested across the man capacitor and I get around 300 vdc which is not bad for those using 240 Vac.

 I tested across all the secondary outputs and I got less near zero volts on all outlets, I decided to switch the power off and do some resistance testing across all the secondary outputs, this was done across the secondary diodes and I noted one line was dead short.

 Upon close investigation I noted it was the B+ line and therefore decided to check the health of the HOT transistor and to my surprise it was dead short.

For those who have been doing CRT television you will agree with me that rarely does HOT transistor short without a cause.

 So do not be quick to replace HOT transistor when found shorted otherwise chances are high to get shorted again after sometimes or instant.

 This problem of H.O.T getting shorted immediately or after some times of replacement has given many technicians sleepless that I decided to include a whole chapter in my book CRT television repair course on how to solve this problem seamlessly

Before replacing the HOT transistor, I decided to do some detective work and I was not happy with the diode shown below.

Kindly note that the photo was taken after replacing the diode with another I got from the junk but both were FR(fast recovery) diode otherwise if you use ordinary diode it will burn instantly.

This diode(D435) has one leg connected to the collector of the H.O.T.

After replacing these two components I decided to power up and see the effect and this is what I saw.

The television is now up and I run it for two hours nonstop and still no issue detected.

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