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From: jtl@chinet.chi.il.us (Joe Lynn)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Television turning itself off
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.134500.1465@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Sep 90 13:45:00 GMT
References: <595@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> <41477@mips.mips.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <41477@mips.mips.COM> reddy@mips.COM (T.S. Reddy) writes:
>In article <595@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>>I have a Sony TV that has a really bad habit of turning off at 
>>random times while your watching it.  Sometimes it will stay on
>>for a half hour or an hour but other times it will only stay on
>>for about a minute.  I tried using a surge protector but that 
>>didn't help.
>>
>     I had the same problem with my KV27XBR10 (I had posted it to this
>newsgroup a few months ago). The problem was traced to a faulty relay
>on the power supply board. The Sony serviceman replaced it and my
>set's been working fine since. 


I had the *same* problem, too, on my KV20TS20.  In my case, it
seemed like the power switch was broken (no play in it at all).
This happened a month after I got the set.

After going around for three months with American Express (no, they
*didn't* replace the set for me-- damned liars), Sony (who had
a *60-day* lead time on any repair), and the store that I bought
it from, I finally got rid of the thing, vowing to stay away from
Sony for a long time.  (Sony has discontinued this model, by the way.)

The store where I bought the set (Polk Bros. in Chicago) replaced
it for me with a Panasonic CTL-2063S.  Haven't had one
single problem with the thing in 6 months.


				--Joe Lynn