SONY TV DEAD repaired

A friend of mine called me to go and check on his TV, Due to my busy schedule I was not able to go immediately and therefore he decided to ask for assistance from a different source (technician).

According to him the tech was coming to check on his fridge, he also mentioned to him about his TV and he said he also repair TVs and hence took on the new assignment.

Question and answer

Sizwe Sizwe from South Africa writes.

Hi Humphrey.

As a new student in this course please be patient as most of my questions will be on things that seem simple to someone else but not so to me.

I have these questions:

1.The difference between drive transistor and horizontal output transistor

When explaining something to my student I believe a photo speaks a thousand words. On the picture below we have the Drive transistor and horizontal output transistor (H.O.T).

Customer not happy with me

Gud day sir Humphrey, You have still not given me any answer on the question I asked last time. And am no longer enjoying your post cos I've not been getting the real thing from it what I need to know more about are all this hard faults in LG, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba & Panasonic thanks

Which answer? I remember giving you enough info on what you asked, checking from my communication to you I have written over 100 emails to you only.

LG 14 inch CRT television model CF-14D10K sound okay no picture.

A friend of mine called me to pass by his place to check on his television, the complain was no picture but audio is okay.

I passed by his place and he was out of the house and I was attended by the wife. There was no power in the area and after asking her a few question about the nature of the problem she confirmed what the husband said.

I never carried with me any equipment because I was not intending to do the repair on site.So I took the television with me back to my workshop, I applied the power and to my surprise the screen was full.

You can now read my blog in your language.

Today I checked my blog statistics and I was surprised to find that most of my blog readers are not from English speaking countries.

From the screen shot below you can see top on the list is Russia with 2086 page views yesterday, followed by United States(1742) and then Israel(1200) was third.

Then come this email this morning from santiago carranza from nicaragua

Hi Mr. Humphreys you book is in spanisho too or only in English, pls i need buy your book but my English is not so good. I live in managua, nicaragua a little country of central America,  god bless you Regards,

santiago carranza

and this one from Anil sarvade.-India
My dear sir I don’t know english fluance. So cannot replay your article answers. But I read your all crt tv repair suggestions. You are my good teacher sir. God bless you sir thank you. Anil sarvade. India.Hyderabad.

This has lead me to think of a way to help this group to be able to read my blog in their own language courtesy of Google translate.

I have already added this function on the top right hand side of the blog and what you need to do is just select your language on the drop list and click translate.

Thanks you guys

Happy browsing

LG 21 Inch Television with shutdown symptom

 A customer came to my shop and wanted his TV checked by a technician; he didn’t come with the TV so I had to accompany him to his house which was a stone throw from my workshop.

Upon reaching his house I found the TV was already open, he was trying to fix it by himself and being a soldier I think he assumed the by fact that his TV refused to work was a criminal act and therefore he wanted to do some investigation.

Another ESR meter sold to Tanzania