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Videocon 21' TV is not turning on

Usually I get a lot of inquiries from my customers


and non-customers with regards to CRT television
repair, for me to give the best possible solution to
the problem I usually need crucial information from
the tech.to make any serious conclusion.
The most important information to analyze a
technical problem is actual voltage testing figures,
the beauty with figures is that they never lie.
This is the data/information I process in making
any suggesting as to the circuit causing the
problem in question.
This means the accuracy of my advice will actually
depend on you (tech), in fact 90 percent is on your
side because you are the person on the ground.
Let us look at this question from one of my
customer from India Mr.Mahadev Pawase.

Hello Sir,
I have Videocon 21' CRT TV for repair. The
symptom is there is nothing on screen also front
led is off.
I have checked voltages
RGB Supply= 128V
VR= 67V
VG= 67V
VB= 66.8V
HEATER = 0 V.
B+= 129V
There is no HV.
In which section could this problem be?
Please guide.Regards
Check if the main I.C/microprocessor is getting
powered.
Regards Humphrey
Thank you very much sir.
Microprocessor was not getting powered. After
supplying the power TV turns on properly.
Regards
Note that this technician has done his homework
very well and to the point, Now let us try to
analyze these figures (voltage) provided a bit.
First of all to be able to solve this kind of problem
it is important you get the circuit diagram of the
TV in question and in my case I was not lucky so I
decided to use common sense.
The most important voltage on the secondary side
of a CRT Television is B+ and this is present at 129
Volts Dc which to me is also normal for 21 inch
Television.
He has also provided the RGB supply at 128 Vdc,
this voltage is suspicious because normal voltage
for this circuit is 180-200Volts.
Looking at voltage B+ 129v and 128 RGB supply,
you can see this voltage is almost the same, this
made me to conclude that the fly-back is not
working.
Why? This is because a fly back works like a step
up/Down transformer and this B+ of 129V goes in
the primary of the fly back transformer coil and out
after being stepped up to over 180 Volts used for
the RGB circuit and what we have here is In-129v
and out-128 volts.
We can conclude that the drop in 1 volts (129-128)
is due to a small resistance of the primary coil.
See the figure below for more info on this.
Another Voltage which made me to conclude the
fly back is not working is the heater voltage which
was registered as Zero. If the fly back is working
one should expect 3 VAC heater voltage, please
note this voltage is not DC but VAC and therefore
when measuring it your meter should be set to
VAC mode.
Another nice tip he also provided which made me
to point him to check the supply to the micro/main
ic is this (The symptom is there is nothing on
screen also front led is off).
Front LED is off! Actually if he omitted this I could
have pointed him to the drive circuit which also
causes the same symptom…NO HV
So I figured that if the Power On led which use the
same voltage with the microprocessor (5Vdc) is off
then most probably this voltage is also not getting
to the microprocessor.
Please note that in some TV models the
microprocessor is part of the main I.C (Jungle) that
is why I directed him there.

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