Found a 32" RCA SDTV (ATC010 chassis)

[radiotvnut]

Picked up a 32V434T (ATC010 chassis) RCA digital TV from 2006 from the TV shop. He claimed he never opened it because the customer didn't want to spend much money on it.

When I fired it up, it tried to fire up, chirped loud, and shut down. I discovered that the HOT is shorted and I'd bet the farm the flyback is bad. From what I'm reading, flyback failures are very common on this chassis.

The RCA flyback P/N is 271996. Since these RCA transformers are obviously junk, is there a better replacement for the original RCA part? Tritronics has the original for $27.00 and Electronix has a generic for $11.99. I really don't like to use cheap no name generics unless there's no other choice.