05-31-2009, 04:37 PM
bwicklander wrote:
The picture tube is going... that happened to my 32" Sony TV
The picture is squashed - sometimes the picture will flip upside down
tear it apart and put a mini into it... maybe a Dell Mini
If the picture is shrinking, that is not the tube going, but the high voltage supply for the tube deflection circuit. Usually can be replaced, problem is finding a replacement high voltage supply and also finding a repair guy who knows how to do it. The adjuster can sometimes bring the output back to the right range for a while, depends on how far gone the high voltage supply is.