"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
You WON!
Is it connected to the Source pin of the Power MOSFET by any chance?
Thank you!
Yes, precisely... Connected to the source pin of a 10N60C...
When the FET was in circuit, there would sometimes be a tiny burst of continuity from the drain to the source... Out of circuit it is only showing a 0.5V drop between source to drain and no continuity between drain to source so I thought I would start testing some components around the FET.
The symptom of this PSU is that while the LCD TV is on, there is aclicking noise coming from around the primary area, which goes on until the TV enters an error mode where it just cycles between solid RGB on the screen.
What's making this so difficult to diagnose is that I can turn the TV on, have this clicking, then turn it off and back on again, there's no clicking at all, and the TV works perfectly (and I can leave it on for days without any problems).
I've already ruled out cold solder joints.
Any ideas?
"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
The clicking is from a relay? Perhaps what is running the relay is getting caught in an oscillation? In old stereos you always have one transistor that runs the speaker relay. Sometimes they will go into oscillation from a weak tranny or some other component.
Just guessing here, I've never cracked one of those tv's open.
It's a 13N50C that mirrors the intermittent behavior...
Sometimes it shows the proper voltage drop from drain to source, and other times it conducts from source to drain... This is looking good... Now I need to find a replacement.
And it is in precisely the area where the clicking noise emanates from.
"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
So far so good... I put the 12N60C in (actually it was a Fuji Power 2SK3502 which is a direct equivalent. I thought I'd try a different brand this time since I have two identical scrap power supplies that use them interchangeably).
"We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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