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M3-SRT8
03-09-2008, 11:06 AM
Does anybody know all the "codewords" for all the various television maladies?

Curious Minds, Would Like to Know...

LJB:smoke:

Old1625
03-09-2008, 12:40 PM
Addressing your post title, http://books.google.com/patents?id=6z9zAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=barkhausen+snivet&source=web&ots=SD0HPZUbqK&sig=zBdVrsmXaWSpVhvHorDX-tnh-dQ&hl=en
shows a page that discusses Barkhausen oscillations in a tube that can generate an annoying sound in audio equipment and a vertical line of hash on the screen--equally annoying--in video equipment.

A trick that sometimes stopped the annoyance in a TV set was placing a "beam bender" magnet from a cast-off CRT onto the horizontal output tube, and moving it around in all directions until the line disappears.