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I've always liked Sony Trinitrons as they all seem to produce a super good picture when working right. I agree they are not worth much today, but I have one on the bench that I use for hooking up to older VCRs, etc as a test monitor. Many Sony's use a horizontal output and regulator switch (thyrister?) (SG613) that if it shorts, both of them go, and the set become a bear to repair. They are expensive and somewhat hard to find, and if there is one little problem (IE a bad cap, connection, driver transistor etc), and you replace them and power it up with a problem left in the circuit, it's POOF, there gone again. I had a 17 inch set that used them and at first the set was working fine, then all of a sudden due to a open filament transformer for the CRT, I was going to replace the transformer, moved the fold out boards around with power on and POOF, the SG613s were blown. Never the less the set got junked.
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