 everybody welcome into today's dream I'm sorry I'm running a few minutes behind here today I've got some things set up though for you and I thought I enticed the dog to come here because first I'd put a bone out and he never came over he wouldn't wasn't interested in the bone he's playing with the ball well then he got the ball over there you saw a second ago and then you just stole the bone it ran off so I don't know if he'll be back we'll see I've got cold cam I've got cold cam ready to go but what we're gonna talk about today is exactly what you see in the title the lovely luxurious B&O MX 5000 television special live show here today so this is kind of an unknown unseen extremely rare television to be here in the United States where I am located and this one specifically is designed to be here in the United States it wasn't as if it was an imported one from Europe or Japan where they are obviously much more common so what we're he's back here we go let's see there we go he's finally decided to come back and hang out maybe a little bit with us so we'll see we'll see if he stays around yeah we're all looking at you that's right yeah you got that bone you're so proud all right thanks mega cards 615 thanks Tony Escobar thanks to W. Morford overclockwise great to see you as always Johan thank you Victor K thank you for coming to Sam this is all great we're gonna have fun today SOS gamers welcome in I'm gonna be watching the chat a little bit again today I told you we're going over this MX 5000 CRT that was from the United States I went through and restored it now I did do a stream like hmm about 10 days ago 11 days ago maybe heck it might have been two weeks ago hey vapor man good to see you so I did a stream where I went through the initial findings on this CRT so you can go back and watch that and see what it's like to begin with because that was really the first time where I take it in the shop got it prepped did it once over on it and then got ready to start the restoration process so just to note the reason that this this intrigued me this this is about a year-long going you know I like to go first off I'm gonna be in anybody's here and has a chance to go to Retro World Expo in Connecticut this upcoming weekend I will be there next Saturday all day in retro RGB's booth hanging out with some goodies as far as like CRT stuff I've got some cool things I'm gonna be bringing like some tools and things and hopefully get to do some fun stuff in the booth I love talking to people so if you're gonna be there please do come by and say hello again the Retro World Expo but this whole restoration was from a an ex that retro World Expo from last year this originated from a gentleman who came up to me at the show told me had bought this television and it is again a super rare television in the United States but as we saw in the first episode live stream on this it is one that was designed by B&O to try to come into the United States it was the first one they'd ever made BMX 5000 so anyway Refail had talked to me at the convention just came up and said hello said he had this television wanted to know if I had any interest in doing the work on it I told him possibly so if he wanted to bring it to my shop fast forward to July of 2023 hey super guy thanks for showing up today man I hope you're doing awesome but anyway he it's fast forward to July he brings in this television after scheduling it through patreon and I did the work for it we got together he brought it dropped it off in my shop and it's been here and then the plan is to return it to him at the expo this year so he'll be picking it up I'll be driving it up there for him anyway let's look at this television I'm thankful everybody's here now we've got a few minutes under our belt please if you can do me a favor and hit the like button on YouTube if that's possible just so that we can get maybe you know a few more people in here if they're interested I know it's daytime in the United States most people are probably in the office somewhere but if you can sneak around and watch some fun stuff about a lovely European television that again is super rare get some sights here of the pug chewing down on his bone hanging out with his basketball so let's get into this now what what made me cause to be a little bit late today so I'm sorry if anybody was coming for 1020 today I was falling behind schedule I actually hey I felt I just turned 40 I've joked about this with Zez on the podcast that I just turned 40 and I was really feeling out of shape prior after like the 4th of July I felt terrible kind of so I got back into doing some workouts and you know my style it would have to be something really cool so I've been doing my DDP yoga I've been doing this every day almost for about I don't know I mean I want to say about six weeks I'm not every single day I have probably had to miss four days in there due to travel schedules and and work and just not being able to get get a spot to do it but they're literally DVDs and every day and so I feel like a million bucks but that's what kept me I went into the workout and with Mr. DDP himself and the old wrestling aficionados will know who I'm talking about there and doing the diamond cutter workouts so that's what that's what I've been doing today and that kept me a little bit behind I had to get cleaned up but now that I'm cleaned up and I got all the silly introductions out of the way and you've hit the like button and we're gonna get into this we're gonna get into this restoration because man this was a challenging one again this was something I'd never seen before never worked on before and make sure I'm pulling it up on the right screen here I do have different types of media for you so we got some mostly pictures and a couple clips here so I'll be mindful of when the clips come up and I think the big problem with this television in the United States was it was just really faulty and I think when when I go through this restoration you'll understand that this is probably because this television is so complex and so I mean over the top pretty much that so many things have to go perfect all the time and and it doesn't really take a lot to go wrong when you have so many systems relying on each other something can go out and you have problems one of the biggest issues with this television no matter what and this is something I've confirmed with many people who own it is the remote control you have to have a working remote control to use this hey Stefan and boomstick welcome in abes games good to see you anyway we've got the remote right down here in front it says about a 25 26 inch tube and you have to have that remote one of the biggest things though for the United States is the SCART input this thing had a really great unique set of inputs that would have really blown away and made any kind of gaming enthusiasts rule because it does have a RGB input in the back in the form of a SCART input and this is not this is not a BS SCART input this is a real like I stuck RGB after I serviced it and got it to work but this was all this is pre-image is kind of stuff that a lot of people have seen before here's the two gosh the two biggest that I've been working on right being a and then the also the FW 900 and I've not done the episode on that one yet I did do some live streams on that but not not that one so anyway those are the two in the shop that were there here's pre-tests I did on this CRT looks pretty good this was RF RF okay looks pretty darn crispy for RF right let's zoom in a little bit maybe we can see when you can tell it's a little fuzzy but you can still see scan line features just from this shotty picture from my cell phone I mean it's not edited or anything this is just all a photo dump from the project okay so there's not any photo editing that is the one though that I've used for or the thumbnail and last stream on this TV and look right here I'm showing you how I got it from RGB or not RGB from composite to RF I use a little block secret block from mr. add-ons and I'll get into that and in the future in a video because I don't really I just want to show you that I was using it that's probably how I got such a clean image to RF but that's really the only input I could get working I think we're gonna come up on a clip here I'm not sure if any of the audio of it is important so me we turn our jazz playlist on pause because I believe we're coming up on a video clip here so right there you go we've got earthworm Jim let's check out this clip okay all right so this is post servicing it I thought this was beforehand but this is actually a clip of me post servicing it so that's just the proof that it's working after I serviced it so never mind I had that clip in the wrong spot but that's okay we'll just get back and we'll a spoiler alert right spoiler alert to everybody sorry about that I spoiled the surprise I guess right well I don't know I could do a stream about not making or making a CRT and then not having it work because that was almost the case it was almost the case all right let's get back to these pictures all right this was the funny picture online if you want to see like more frequent posts of things that I'm actually working on as it's happening a lot of these pictures get posted to my Twitter account so you can always go there always go there you know it's a good question super guy never checked the deflection angle exactly it's it is super thin you'll see that in some upcoming pictures a lot of dust in here check out these subwoofers my big little hands there holding the CRT in place in the back but very dusty very dirty see how thin it is there look at that see very very much steep tube here so you're gonna have issues with everything you normally do with geometry I mean it's an old tube definitely right just look at that we've talked about this before in depth with Andy King on the cathedrae podcast how you know the this angle the longer the tube is out here if it was way out here where my cursor is about twice the depth of it what it actually is then the tube would be able to get an amazing area of deflection where it could just get better along the sides you could have better picture controls all along the edges of the picture and really have a sharp image right but in response to that you also can't have a CRT that weighs 500 pounds in someone's house so they shorten up the tube now this one is a Hitachi tube and we talked about that in the last show alright we're gonna walk through a lot of pictures here I mean a lot of pictures okay and these are bored pictures mostly and I don't mean boring I mean bored pictures as in this is the disassembled monitor where I've taken all those boards out from behind the tube you just saw the tube all the boards from there had to go somewhere right and this is where they went first off this is just the cluster it comes out and I pulled it all in one big cluster to start with because I had no idea about the location of these clips here I didn't know if any of this wiring this wiring harness it was a bit tricky so I wanted to put everything out together so I could study it also and document everything now thankfully the customer had documentation and there was a whole wiring harness diagram on there that I did have to refer to to double check afterwards and we'll get into that a little more but for right now this is just pre pre servicing pictures I'm taking pictures of everything to document stuff where it's all app got four connections here this backboard is behind the input board so on the opposite side of this is the scarred input sorry about that the opposite side of this is a scarred input but on this side are some control potentiometers some logic a heck of a lot as resistors a few capacitors and then down here unable for you're not going to be able to see it at this moment we're gonna look at it soon is a battery a lithium ion or lithium battery I don't know that's but this is the other side of that there's more connections on here we have wiring harnesses about a half a dozen on this side and that's how that board looks right there and from the notes that I've read on forums that there's not much available on this to set on these B&O sets that's really why I'm doing more documentation just including things like this live stream this these capacitors on here it's three this from 1989 these are gonna be prone to failure okay so they all should be inspected tested etc okay just another close-up of that backboard there's the Barbie house sneaking an appearance in the background as well as as well as who can spot it my amazing Mr. Cade inside of my inside of my SNK machine over there I can't think of it I don't know why my MBS foreslot okay again this is the other side of that board I just showed you see all these the company connection wires there are this is just wild right look at all these connection points and then you have this daughter board up top this daughter board had every cap was pretty much completely done toasted on this card and then this board was also in bad shape and then there's the decoders inputs all down here under that plastic shielding look at this this thing even has an isolation transformer similar to my arcade machine I've never seen a CRT have a full-on isolated transformer in it before that was a first for me for a CRT that is just a consumer set that's so that I mean that's one unique thing guys that you're seeing here that 99% of CRTs will not have this out on a block on its own and there's a separate board over there a thousand miles of wire you can see the challenges that servicing something like this would present because you have so many different connections so many different capacitors so many points of interest okay again this is a look at this other board really again documenting how and where each one of these connections go into and just more connections right there I'm hearing a beep and I'm wondering if my yeah that could be that could be a way for it to be universally Johan and Stefan the isolation transformers it's just supposed to isolate it so you don't electrocute yourself your high voltage is isolated from a low voltage kind of pathways but also that transformer could be used yeah I was gonna say that could be a step-dram transformer where it would be stepping down from 230 volt but I don't know I think this is specifically designed to be NTSC again so I don't think they would make it European and then transform that I didn't see anything like that but it's just you know there's other transformers on a board that are on a board within a CRT lots of them and my thought is maybe this was just a way to use a larger one maybe this was way to use a larger one and then isolated instead of putting it on the board somewhere it's so big hey Tony thank you for dropping in today Tony you got a 9 inch or 8 inch got it on my board here KV 8 inch restoration and modification do set up on the cue buddy after the retro world expo all right anyway there's my hands give you some perspective there's the neck board this is some that I hated about this neck board design and I'll probably get into this a little bit more because it was causing me some headaches but you can see how like the voltage lines they just come down to these pins right you get some test points here which are fine test points but then they just solder this flimsy wire and you know this is important stuff same thing over here solder a wire there instead of giving us a connection point but anyway that's part of the servicing hey thanks Moncier Mike too kind so this is just board disassembly broken down here here's a great picture of our battery I told you there's that super max cell lithium battery we're gonna get a closer look at that in some other pictures and a closer look at as this buffers here's a close look at this backboard again as it's kind of broken out on its own as I went through this I realized you could take these boards individually out of the CRT but I decided to take everything at once right that's okay here's this was the surprise to me I was not expecting this board here this is like a multi board it's got like tuner in there and it's slid under this area I'm gonna zoom in over here in this dark crevice it was under the deflection board hiding behind all the other boards so that was the thing this set had so many boards so many and I opened it up and I talked to the client I was I look at this board specifically I said you know this board right here is about yeah saving settings it holds a charge it saves settings I'll get in a little bit more in the battery when we get to that breakdown of that board but this board had about 90 capacitors on it and none of them were obviously leaking or failed but they were all in that gray area of heck they're 30 years old they should probably be replaced but servicing a board like this this level of the board in this condition in this day and age that's a lot of money that's like this this board right here is as much as servicing three quarters of the other boards combined in this monitor mostly okay so when I spoke to the client about that I was like this is a surprise board that again we were talking about if there's a certain number of boards you get recapped for price anyway why don't be in too much work for me to go in here be commissioned to actually recap that recap this board I did do some servicing to it I did do some spot checks and testing and made sure it was okay but I notified him he's gonna have to eventually get that board looked at if he didn't want to do it now for the cost of doing everything now here's a look again at that board cluster that includes the three major boards that's the input board this backboard with the battery and that daughter card up there all these had to be serviced there's the neckboard again there's that tuner board that's the surprise board here's the main deflection board with a lot of the power stuff on it and then a power daughter board up there see that one and then this is another power board over here so this CRT had eight boards in it eight specific boards unbelievable okay like eight specific boards in it that's a that's a lot of work okay anyway let's get in here we're gonna start looking at some of these boards closer do some servicing now after we've kind of documented everything this is this is main board I've got to go check something there's something upstairs sounds like it's beeping in my house and I just want to make sure that I didn't leave the coffee pot running but I will be right back and Cole and I will be right back so just take a one quick second see watch Cole's gonna follow me I'm gonna come right back though I don't know what's going on and just hang with me well hell is certainly strange I'm not sure what was happening there anyways let's get back to this because this is a we're really rolling along here good I hope everybody's doing great again if you've got the opportunity please do hit the like button if you're watching this on the live show or if you happen to be catching this on a playback and you are catching this on a playback and you want to see more about this eventually I will put a link to the last stream in in a pinned comment and on the after show or after it publishes so you can watch both on a playback if you're interested and then I hopefully have planned an entire full-length episode which will come with a post for retro RGB on this television yeah eight individual boards anyway this you just look at this board from from first sight this is the reason the SCART inputs have so much trouble look at how disgusting the solder has become on these inputs I mean it is borderline hideous sometimes it's been completely disintegrated like right here it's pretty much gone there was a lot of problems with my sync lines and doesn't surprise me I mean look at this especially over there you don't even have to be that close to that picture to see that so I had to go through there's another close-up just look at that you see that and you should automatically pretty much assume that you need to remove this solder clean it and replace it okay no and here's now the good thing is yeah I could service this board will without removing it from the frame it was made in a way like that so the next board were actually started was this card here my plan was to recap that card and that's what I did there's all the replacement capacitors in there not a lot of replacement capacitors the next thing though this one did let me see if there's anything interesting here yeah I want to show you this so most boards will have a capacitor see how they'll go in the same direction a lot of times right same direction I'm just making sure everything's good same direction for polarity but over here it's flipped so you have to be very careful working on sets like this you have to watch the board and make sure you double check everything because it could be very easy to assume everything's going the same direction because some other sets that's a that's a thing where everybody tries to make the set they either go one direction or the other this goes all directions that board again is the battery board this one did have some failed capacitors in it I'm going to show you this here look at this so this is pretty typical of a failure here for what you would see this cap blew up it got a bunch of nasty stuff all over this resistor this resistor and this diode thankfully none of these parts down here become damaged but you could tell this resistor it's starting to get in bad shape got some rust forming there right but the resistor you know it wouldn't take long for that cap to keep going and fry that point out and you'd eventually have failure so that board did have to have spot capacitors again this was a good negotiated change from our original plan to recap this entire monitor I changed the the caps on this board that all tested bad with a meter and then especially the ones that have failed I also went through and I cleaned up that area tested those components they were all good get a better picture hopefully there's some replaced capacitors right there and replace that one cleaned up that area so this was the bottom side of those resistors and that capacitor right there they see it giving bled through a little damage figures at 1096 and I had to go through and reflow all this solder replace it and I guess that's it yeah anyway here's the battery I pulled it studied it and tested it and it actually tested perfectly still good shape no swelling nothing that's actually something that would have been replaced before and it's still available to this day but they're like $25 for replacement so that one was still in good shape I just made the customer aware of it now this is step one of replacing and repairing solder but you could see I still had to add some more solder on some of these points after step one because I still missed I still missed a good blow on there so that's after I went back at step two and reflowed again on those points with fresh solder and this is what it kind of looks like afterwards you clean it but that's the after look on that input for scart right there right some more pictures of right well here's the thing over clockwise I was very concerned I know what you're saying there but I was concerned this television is weird it's it's picky I had some extreme issues after getting back together getting it to function properly was doing stuff where I talked to the owner and I think that there's possibilities where this older one if you if you power cycle it or pull the power plug too many times in a certain amount of time it can like lock itself up I didn't want to change out of battery and have it lock itself up and again where it wasn't the client opted to not do the full-on restoration so that's a part of all this definitely something beeping over here I just can't figure out what it is Cole it's driving me crazy it sounds like my testing meter like a clips running in my head so the only right if this was for example if this was my personal set and I had this all torn apart I would have I would have been more considered of those things I would have probably attempted a battery mod not even I mean I don't even really think I would have done a battery mod I wanted want to keep it original so I would have probably paid the $25 and gotten a replacement for it okay but anyway so there's the back side of that daughter board where I've reflowed the solder on there cleaned it up recapped it hey McMuffin that's cool hope you and your kitten have a fun day that's fun I got this I got this guy over here still easy he's passed out now if you're real lucky you might hear of snore he's a snore call oh there he goes and you probably can't hear it but man is he a snore wow so here's this daughter board that had to have a few replacement capacitors installed cleaned up you saw dirty it was originally a lot of those larger filter caps were not bad but still went through and fixed it up reflowed solder whoops I lost that picture I've got more than that right okay here we are here we go now this is back where the main deflection board is and you've got this plate here and the backside of that plate is that first power supply daughter board right here dog is snoring away got a lot of oxidation a lot of build-up you modifications on there from the factory or a service tech afterwards this TV did look to be serviced before so this cluster had to be serviced next just taking up again pictures to document how those wiring harnesses looked there's another look at some wiring harnesses I removed this board tested capacitors and cleaned it and I'm sure I reflowed all the solder on there a lot of those capacitors had to be replaced everything that wasn't the very large filter capacitor had to be replaced on there oops you bar so now look at the front side of that board so this is kind of normal not not too many capacitors on there also since it's a high-power high voltage board should get some solder attention see if I show that yeah I reflowed all this solder clean this board fully since a big improvement you still get some areas where it's like burned oxidation over here by these diodes it's like that's pre-me as long as that as long as that's a good quality I'm not as concerned about how it just looks but the most part that's that's a happy happy job right there to look like that afterwards and test a good there's the backside of the main PCB right there before I serviced it you get the neckboard down in there too hey that picture looks familiar that's right here we're sitting I'm just kidding it is though here's our main board the flyback hey Koala good see it lots of capacitors on this one but these all had to be changed at least 99% of them did I think there were two that tested good that were rare they were hard to find so I didn't change those whoop man I just hit the wrong button this should be a good picture born after fighting at the right spot just another look that's the other board sorry about that I went too far oh everybody I apologize let's see where am I yep I went I went way too far okay so here's a picture that we were at this is the deflection board with power elements to power board it's up to the x picture load here and then there you have it all the capacitors are out actually so this one I know every one of them is gone on this board every single one sorry about that and then what did I find what do you think I found I found some juices I found some juices look at that what if YouTube had a vision I had a feature where you could smell what you're seeing what do you think you would smell so this is an exploding capacitor C730 it has oozed onto this diode here and it's not very far from this a really high heat area I mean there's a huge resistor yeah it's definitely forbidden forbidden fluid right there and it's leaked down here you can see other parts this seat 755 also went bad fish sense you're right good call exactly fishy oh here's some other looks at some places this was more of a hey it blew up and immediately hardened and dried so that was another type there's a look at all the culprits look what we got here a lot of 85 degree rated capacitors just pretty common stuff not great brands there were a few robacons it's just a met and podge podge of things similar to what you'd see in this kind of a set from this time period in the 80s oh I believe this is a cleaned up nope not fully cleaned up this is another picture that board because I remember down here these four had exploded in this quadrant quadrant it's not even a quadrant whatever it is area also the neck board another piece of hardware that's very important all the caps gone there caps gone bye bye caps and also gets this board gets a hundred percent fresh solder and you'll know this that this board has some pretty fat solder blobs that's my solder baby I blobbed it up for this one I want to make sure that this board has you know works perfectly right so everything and that's that's even look I didn't even install the capacitor down here yet something was up I was waiting for a delivery of one I think and I had done everything else but every point on here gets fresh solder flow all right just got to be careful you can't put too much heat for too long on some of these points because there's plastic involved and you'll mess things up like your socket you don't want to mess that up okay oh Stefan I just said you know what I'll clean some boards on a stream sometime okay that's what I'll do I need to get I'm actually completely out I just use isopropyl alcohol and it takes time and cleaning again cleaning again cleaning again yeah there's the frame I cleaned that that's the frame for the main board in the hodge podge of a wiring harness but I use I have a set of brushes and some cleaning tools that I use they're nothing nothing fancy it's all just ESD stuff and then the isopropyl alcohol I've got a fan here I use that a HACCO exhaust fan yeah if you could go holy I've been I've been able to only find 70% isopropyl alcohol here and it's been driving me absolutely crazy all right here we go this is the board I was telling you about that's a tuner board that I just cleaned inspected there's look that's those brushes see them that's stuff I used to clean both sides of the board there's a little toothbrush looking dohicky and that's really it hey Miles thanks all right there's another look at that board looks pretty it's put all back together all the wiring's back in place there's the bottom of that board I did clean that some spot solder I had to spot resolder some points on there of course not getting away with that re soldering some points on these boards there's our recapped main boards like the neck board and the main board here the main deflection and power board that's all been re recapped solder reflow to no joke reflow to solder on that by hand not every single point but probably a half of them when you want to give these things the best chance to go on forever this board again 100% solder reflow there it is again here's some issues because I had to later come back and reflow these these points I hate the way that this was made can't remember what these exact points those are but those are those are important points same thing over here this was g2 voltage was through this red cable probably are this orange cable from the flyback it's soldered right here so this is another point that you have to flip the board over and solder on to you just go ahead and do it there's the daughter board for the power reattached everything after cleaning there's the whole setup put back together after all those boards were serviced see this is a great picture here's the so this down here you can see it it says it right there wiring diagram baby wiring diagram so I use this wiring diagram this wiring diagram look at this it says mains transformers let's see it also says 120 volt 120 volt 120 volt this transformer is not doing guys there's a we got it we got it you wanted to know about the transformer it's randomly in a picture in the photo the photograph with where I was doing my wiring diagram QC work where I just checked everything and double checked anything I had question about on this diagram here okay so it says here that this we look at this transformer it's got the main transformer I believe that's the one it's got 15 or 12 volt 12 volt 5 volt AC over here it's got 3315 and 220 volt AC's look at that so it's not that's that's what that transformers doing it's stepping you know stepping down to that lower voltage stuff so you could isolate the voltage look at that what does it do see we got high hot voltage over here on the main board but then you can have lower voltage to this board to this board this board this board and all these other boards can be powered besides the flexion board with lower voltages so it's safe to work on them while it's an operation right okay hope that helps there it is there's the old transformer right should be say p29 that's coming from that transformer it says p29 on that diagram that's the right thing yep that's we're looking at see it says p29 right there so there we go show and tell if you watched earlier and you're wondering what we were talking about the transformer that's what we're talking about inside the tube let's see this should be when we clean in there look at how dirty that was dirty dirty there's a simple yoke simple but effective Hitachi tube I think this is that there's there's the Hitachi label and that out of focus picture there it's cleaned up did notice that the yoke rings had moved so I went and resecured them with fresh stuff fresh goop yeah there's some bizarre speaker pipes aren't they subwoofer or something ergonomics there it is cleaned out not overly clean I didn't get in there and chemically clean everything I got in there and hand cleaned it all and there's a picture of it reassembled and put back together tested I don't know what else I have here let's see see there's a picture yeah so this is not it though but this was the first round of testing I put it all back together knocked on wood said a prayer because I had to do all these boards in one shot and went for a test and thankfully it worked right it worked right away and but I was super confused about the remote but there it did work see if we can get some stuff here and I'm going to show you some images here because after after I got it tuned on and going it was I was able to stick RGB coming out of my Super Nintendo that had been modified with boltars kit it's the Super Nintendo this SNES Junior Mini whatever you want to call it the second one that I always use with the RGB amplifier in it and this is RGB on the B&O so I just plug that in and that's RGB okay so some closer images here very cool-looking television amazing I loved it I couldn't imagine what like a frenzy this kind of set would have caused back in the 90s if it would have lasted and worked and you could have gotten this like literally if you I mean you might not have all you needed was a skirt cable right look at that I love the way that that shadow mask looks right there you can almost see the separation of the mask right there with the green and blue hitting on that individual line yeah look at that how cool is that that's the little bit of a different look that you'll see yeah this is the US model a little bit different if I had a good picture of a scan line from a Sony it be interesting to show against that but that's just that's what the super zoomed in photograph look there you go that how cool is that you can see the individual guns lighting up there for red green and blue I love that so much fun now this board here's what happened started using this TV don't worry he's still snoozing I know you're wondering what Cole's doing right he's still snoozing he's still snoozing he's there so look here's something I'm gonna explain to you I started to use this TV got warmed up and then it was giving me all kinds of crazy issues crazy issues weird things the biggest problem was again I couldn't figure out what I was doing with the remote and I thought I was making more trouble than I should so I was very confused with the remote I finally got my handle a little bit down how to switch a couple inputs on there and all the sudden I start having troubles powering on the set not powering on actually well getting an image on the screen and what would happen is is I would power it on I could hear the tube energized but there would never there would be nothing to display nothing and I was like what the heck's going on so I went back and checked out the neckboard but it had been fully serviced fully reflowed on solder I knew it wasn't that so I went and then I checked out this input board because I thought maybe something was going on where it was trying to do an auto switch with the logic back there and I missed a capacitor that was bad and maybe a solder joint was bad and I thought my best shot was to take a look at this input board so that's the next thing I did I had to take it apart but I did figure out what was wrong but this was not this just happened to be something I did that didn't actually wasn't the problem but as a troubleshooting measure I went and I recapped this board you can tell that's that same input board extracted once again all the capacitors removed on it this time all of them gone there you go because I was sure that this was the board or the other board that I didn't service under the set right that was the other one I didn't want to mess with it though so there it is holes all the points where and see all this capacitors been pulled with the FR 301 desoldering tool there's all the capacitors out of it now I did see some weird things this board for some reason had some capacitors if you look in the middle of your screen those big yellow legs on the capacitors it was quite odd the capacitors were left long on the board and then they had these heat shrink tubing on them and then they were soldered into place in the through hole and then they were covered in tape just some electrical tape I'm not sure what the point of that was but I just didn't I didn't recreate that little setup like that I have no idea it wasn't as if regular caps didn't fit in there they did fit in there so I'm not sure what was going on but there it is replaced everything it's kind of a fuzzy picture there that's every cap replaced on that board so it's pretty pretty lengthy job how are we doing out there in TV land everybody cool it's another close-up of those and drama nuts all right closer look at that board cleaned up all caps were replaced all solder reflowed solder reflowed on all that logic see I was concerned something was going on with that logic and it wasn't sure is that all the way to the end where am I getting pretty close down here to the end but there it is put back together I still was having some issues look at this there it is all put back together okay with the new board installed I mean not new board but the new service board I don't know whether I've got and I finally got it back turned on there okay and the secret here was the g2 voltage I don't know how this happened but while I was servicing when I return when I turned it back on after servicing and letting set warm up it was like the g2 voltage was not high enough to send an image to the tube I just randomly after recapping this board and checking all the grounds on the set and scratching my head I randomly went over the flyback and I turned up the g2 voltage a little bit and the screen reappeared and then it wouldn't it never did it never had a problem again where the screen disappeared because before then it would sporadically go away sometimes you get screen to show an image sometimes you wouldn't it would stay man it was driving me nuts so if you have an issue like that I think this is something where I had just replaced so many capacitors that somehow it caused maybe the g2 voltage to drop it's just weird anyway that happened I got it all back together I'm gonna gonna turn off this jazz mix I believe I have a short clip here of this let's see what it is oh no no here's a cap all right here we go let's see I don't think you've missed anything this was the picture we just left off of it's a picture of me getting the set on and I was so happy I know Sony windows right you have to you that's that's such a crazy thing but it's wild because you could sit there and think the set is broken and it's literally just a g2 voltage setting that could completely change things anyway here's all the caps from that look at all those caps it's there all in my Garfield lead paint it's a bigger one it was a 27 inch think 26 it's in my lead paint there's that leg again look at that it looks like a snake skin or some kind of bug bug carcass on there right here's a little clip let's see what this clip says finally got it enabled the RGB mode look at this oh this is when I got RGB this was a Twitter post video back something here go sharp that is look at that it's a very fun an RGC and a B&O MX 5000 through SCART it was through SCART yeah so sharp all right one second this 1980 CRT would have absolutely changed everything if it would have been able to make it in the United States there we go I like the picture on this set and the problem is getting them and servicing them that's a lot of work that's the end of the fight slide show everybody that's the end of the slide show that's that's the restoration it went well after I figured out that problem the full-on plan is to take some time probably this afternoon try to put together a little bit of a video I'm not I'm not sure when I'll get that video done by I'd like to get it done before I leave town but that's a little ambitious currently I'm working on a d20 BVM I've got some cards for that you really want to see like up-to-date stuff on I'm telling you the most up-to-date things are the Twitter posts that's where you'll find everything that I post to social media that's going on really there and then everything else kind of trickles out from there and it's just easier to post certain media there so that's a B&O restoration on a luxurious wonderful MX5000 that could have been something special here in the United States but unfortunately you saw the complexity of this television all it took was a little bit of failure a little problem a little defect and not to mention the complete complexity of this remote I do not understand that remote control at all it it's just such a confusing enigma I wish I had the better pictures I had some pictures I posted before on that but I don't think I included them in here with the with the clients actual folder of items like this is the clients pictures that they get what else did I send them some service notes just following up on this these were the dates of service 89 was the year each board here part there's a disassembly process open the TV remove wiring harness inspected all boards eight circuit boards here's each board and what was done to each board and we went through a lot of that right individually every board was in some way was serviced here's reassembly CRT work special notes and that that's the restoration that I provided this client now has that folder with all that stuff and so they do have that you know record and log of their actual items being fixed which is a benefit I consider that a lot of people don't don't offer but guys that's today's stream I want to thank you all so much for joining me today I don't know if there's anything else I didn't really see any questions that we left hanging there I think the big question today was about that transformer and we were able to figure that out thanks to the manuals now I'm gonna go try to figure out what in the world in my basement is beeping or upstairs is beeping it's a little beep it's like a you know I think it's like a keyboard device or something losing power some ghost is over there but I could possibly have another stream if I don't get this video I'll stream once more because again I'm going to that convention this upcoming weekend and I'm probably will try to do a little video just a fun vlogging video where give you behind the scenes look again I love doing that where I go to the show maybe show some of the shenanigans of friends of the channel that I run into maybe I can get Bob to say something I don't know who else shank might be there yeah I had something like that it's driving me crazy Christopher anyway guys thank you all again for showing up today watching the stream if you want to learn more become more part of our economy or I mean our economy our community economy you can economically contribute by going to patreon join in there we do offer services through that you can also get on our private discord once you're a member of patreon 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