I would love some help confirming a diagnosis!
I have a Sanyo DP26649 that I was given. I'd love to get it running so I can replace a faulty CRT in an arcade game. When I first plugged it in, I powered it on and the green power light lit up and the backlight came on, but there was no picture. It seemed like there was no response at all from button presses other than to power it back off. While messing with it I began o notice a small green line near the top right where the channel indicator would normally be on the screen. I flipped channels until I could see a thin, maybe 1/4 inch line across the whole top of snow. I decided to leave it on and after about 10 minutes the TV had warmed up and the snow filled the screen. I was able to switch to a source and see a picture. The top 1/4 of the screen still flickered and changed colors (lots of weird vertical line patterns that are hard to capture a picture of). Another 10 minutes of warmup and it looks great! I am actually using it to type this post.
To me it sounds like a cold solder joint in the t-con board. I am just curious if anyone else concurs with my T-CON diagnosis before I drop $20 on a new one.
As I mentioned, it is difficult to get a picture of the flicker, but here is a picture of one of the flickers at the top of the screen before it had completely warmed up.
Any advice is welcome!
I have a Sanyo DP26649 that I was given. I'd love to get it running so I can replace a faulty CRT in an arcade game. When I first plugged it in, I powered it on and the green power light lit up and the backlight came on, but there was no picture. It seemed like there was no response at all from button presses other than to power it back off. While messing with it I began o notice a small green line near the top right where the channel indicator would normally be on the screen. I flipped channels until I could see a thin, maybe 1/4 inch line across the whole top of snow. I decided to leave it on and after about 10 minutes the TV had warmed up and the snow filled the screen. I was able to switch to a source and see a picture. The top 1/4 of the screen still flickered and changed colors (lots of weird vertical line patterns that are hard to capture a picture of). Another 10 minutes of warmup and it looks great! I am actually using it to type this post.
To me it sounds like a cold solder joint in the t-con board. I am just curious if anyone else concurs with my T-CON diagnosis before I drop $20 on a new one.
As I mentioned, it is difficult to get a picture of the flicker, but here is a picture of one of the flickers at the top of the screen before it had completely warmed up.
Any advice is welcome!
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