Re: ANOTHER 32" Trinitron...is it worth it?

FZ Jim,

Careful, 30-25 years ago I to worked as a bench service tech for a TV/ VCR repair business authorized depot for Sony. As I remember the chassis is "Hot" to one side of the AC line. I quickly learned from experience.
If your Oscilloscope is earth grounded, "SPARK-FLASH" you will weld the ground clip to the chassis, blow a rectifier in the TV power supply and lastly the fuse. I don't recall power transformers used, but be careful. Then again that was 30-25 years ago.
Use an isolation...

Re: Samsung Syncmaster 940BX backlight problem - Need help please.

Hi all,

Nice posts for the 2 second display problem for the Samsung 940BX LCD monitor. I have one that failed exactly as described here. A flashlight confirmed I can see messages from the monitor when the display goes black. Using your posted information helped greatly in my troubleshooting.

After performing a good inspection under lighted magnification and checking some resistor values, I unsoldered, removed the transformer, TMS91429CT (thanks for the schems!!).
The primary measured...