Hi, so i usually recap old radios (including tube radios) and recently i decided for a change to recap old panasonic CRT TV (model tx-21md1c) that had horizontal lines on tophalf of the screen with blinking red green and blue lines in the middle of the screen
So for now i replaced only the caps that i had in stock hoping that it would at least make it better but somehow after recaping everything is now 100x worse and now lines are all over the screen (new lines are thinner while lines that were there before recap are thicker and still there)
So before recap aside from lines picture was perfect, contrast brightness and color were all pefrect but now after recap screen is all washed out, there are no more black colors screen is very white and bright and contrast is literally the worst i have ever seen and lines are now all over the screen
So basicly TV went from very usable even tough it had lines to completley unusable
here is a video where you can see how it looks now after recap, the singal source used in the video was old ps2 connected to composite input (i love retro consoles):
and here is a list of all caps that i have replaces so far
C361
C563
C703
C450
C462
C455
C701
C852
C862
C856
C853
C509
C860
C7224
C806
C807
C804
C811
I really want to try to fix this thing so any help is appriciated and i am very willing to learn how to diagonose CRTs (i know how to safley discharge them and i am comfortable working with high voltages )
So for now i replaced only the caps that i had in stock hoping that it would at least make it better but somehow after recaping everything is now 100x worse and now lines are all over the screen (new lines are thinner while lines that were there before recap are thicker and still there)
So before recap aside from lines picture was perfect, contrast brightness and color were all pefrect but now after recap screen is all washed out, there are no more black colors screen is very white and bright and contrast is literally the worst i have ever seen and lines are now all over the screen
So basicly TV went from very usable even tough it had lines to completley unusable
here is a video where you can see how it looks now after recap, the singal source used in the video was old ps2 connected to composite input (i love retro consoles):
and here is a list of all caps that i have replaces so far
C361
C563
C703
C450
C462
C455
C701
C852
C862
C856
C853
C509
C860
C7224
C806
C807
C804
C811
I really want to try to fix this thing so any help is appriciated and i am very willing to learn how to diagonose CRTs (i know how to safley discharge them and i am comfortable working with high voltages )
Last edited: