I have been going round and round with this one for a couple of years. It's a 16x10 display that allows you to size your OTA picture correctly to 16x9 and that makes it kind of cool so I really want to keep it on my OTA monitoring wall. Accidentially let a screw roll under the powered power supply board and ended up replacing the MOSFET drivers for the inverters, then one of the Schottky rectifiers for one of the supplies, then the PS caps becuase I fired the parts cannon at it one day.

Problem was no cold startup; it would only startup when you applied a heat gun to the board. Without the heat it would get as far as a flash of picture, then go off again. Finally traced that down to the "blue" high voltage/low value caps in the inverter circut for one of the lamps. Two of the caps for the non-affected circuit/lamp are fed directly from the power transformer, the side with the problem seems to feed a voltage sensing circuit that won't let startup happen/finish if something is wrong with one of the lamps. The two caps for this circuit are fed by a third cap which checks as having no value; this obviously changes with heat applied and the TV will start up and run all day. If the TV has been on for a while it will start up again so I believe that the problem is with that cap, which should be 2pf/6kv (C817 in the picture).
I will be replacing all 4 blue inverter caps and C817. I would also like to replace one of the lamp sockets on the board (burnt pin as shown) but can't find them anywhere. I know these are kind of standard, does anybody have a part number or a good term to use in a search?

Thanks
Val
Problem was no cold startup; it would only startup when you applied a heat gun to the board. Without the heat it would get as far as a flash of picture, then go off again. Finally traced that down to the "blue" high voltage/low value caps in the inverter circut for one of the lamps. Two of the caps for the non-affected circuit/lamp are fed directly from the power transformer, the side with the problem seems to feed a voltage sensing circuit that won't let startup happen/finish if something is wrong with one of the lamps. The two caps for this circuit are fed by a third cap which checks as having no value; this obviously changes with heat applied and the TV will start up and run all day. If the TV has been on for a while it will start up again so I believe that the problem is with that cap, which should be 2pf/6kv (C817 in the picture).
I will be replacing all 4 blue inverter caps and C817. I would also like to replace one of the lamp sockets on the board (burnt pin as shown) but can't find them anywhere. I know these are kind of standard, does anybody have a part number or a good term to use in a search?
Thanks
Val
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