19" Sanyo from 1992 that isn't worth fixing

[zeno]

Gotta love it. Hit by lightning & didnt tell you.
Other crap they often did was " never been fixed" "its just
the power tube" or they just pulled the set from another shop.I could go on.......
Even back then honesty was less common than common sense.

After CATV came in we started getting lightning jobs that were total losses
instead of gravy jobs. If we found blasted trace or burned antenna isolation
units we totaled it. Pissed a few people off but a good hit would take out the PS, tuner, half the IC's & a lot of small stuff. Its what EMP will do.

enuf fer now
73 Zeno
LFOD !

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

He picked up the set and told me that lightning hit it. He also said that lightning hit his late '80's RCA console (I think he said it used a CTC149 chassis). My experience with lightning-damaged RCAs from that era has not been good. Usually, on those sets, I'd find burned traces, destroyed ICs, and/or a destroyed tuner. Those RCAs seemed to never be just a diode and fuse job.