re exploding tv in article qk hj qos vtserf cc vt edu prasad vtaix cc vt edu prasad ramakrishna writes i had a ge emerson color tv for about years and one fine day while we were watching something i doubt if the program was the cause we heard a mild explosion our screen went blank but there was sound so we thought oh we have special effects on the program but soon the sound stopped and smoke started to appear at the back of the tv the brilliant ees we are we unplugged the tv and called customer service only to be thrown around by please hold i will transfer u to blah blah finally we abandoned the idea of trying to fix the tv and got a new one we wanted a bigger one too after all the story what i wanted to know is is my problem an isolated incident or a common one i recall reading about russian tvs exploding but not here in the us why would the picture tube explode or even smoke i still have the left over tv set i might dig into it this summer any idea where i can get parts for these things probably will cost more than tv heh heh heh heh i laugh because i have the same damn tv and it did the same thing actually it is a goldstar but it s essentially the same tv and electronics just a different face plate and name fortunately tv tubes don t explode i d think the tv mfrs want to make this possibility remote as possible if at all they ll implode and the glass that blows out would be the result of the glass boucing off the back of the tube due to the implosion in any case don t kick it around i fixed the tv after getting a hold of some schematics it turned out to be a blown w resistor feeding the flyback transformer i guess the original resistor was a bit too small to dissipate the heat it created burning itself out i checked to make sure the flyback wasn t shorted or anything first oh luckily i had a resistor handy lying around that had just the right value for what i needed i can t see it being more than cents well needless to say the tv still works today so go get a set of schematics and have some fun just don t get shocked poking around the flyback
