CTC-47 G-2000 potential tragedy...

[RCAkid]

...ok, that may be overly dramatic at this point. It hopefully may not be a tragedy just yet.

I had picked up a G2000 a couple of years ago that had never been owned. It is in virtually brand new condition, just a couple of blemishes on one of the corners of the white veneer which seems to be quite common. The remote had never been used and was still in the black velvet pouch. Really cool and the chassis is crisp and clean. The only flaw in the set was a vertical issue that the height was a bit mal-adjusted and when I opened it up to fill the screen, the vertical would not lock, telling me of course that there is something up in the vertical circuits.

Anyway, I had powered up the set some time ago and it has a gorgeous picture and everything, aside from the vertical issue works perfectly. That is until last night.

I was fiddling around with one of the DTV converters (I had picked them up months ago but finally got around to trying it out) and was enjoying this gorgeous picture, far better than my 36" 2004 JVC D Series which has a great picture, after about an hour, I heard a couple of "tink" sounds.....kind of like the sound of a tube as it heats up. No bangs or pops, then the picture was gone. Sound, tuner, etc was working fine but no pic and I cannot detect the sound of any hv. But this is a bit different of a beast from the tube sets so I am a little out of my element here.

My biggest fear is that something when nuts with the quadrupler. I can't begin to imagine where to obtain one of these. That is what would be the potential tragedy. Ugh.

I know there are a few of you out there that are experienced with this chassis. I must admit, I am a little overwhelmed by this chassis and while it is still similar to previous CTC 16, 17, 21, etc chassis...it is still very different. There is a massive amount of components in it and wondered if any of you who have dealt with this chassis might have some ideas on where to begin.

Hopefully it is just something in the power supply, an electrolytic that failed but I thought I would glean some knowledge from those more experienced than I prior to digging into this set.

Thanks in advance!