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Complete Projection TV Troubleshooting & Repair

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I found this book to be helpful for the most part. My recommendation would be to use this book AND spend the 25 bucks for your T.V.'s service manual. Do an internet search or something, they're out there. Mine came on a disk from an online company. As usual, the flow charts in the service manual were next to useless. However, using the information in this book in combination with the schematics and part info in the service manual, I was able to repair my TV. Don't expect to fix your TV with just this book. It tells you exactly what parts to look at, but without your TV's service manual, you can't equat them to your specific TV. An example, a rather common fault is for the Horizontal Output Transistor to go bad. This fault, and how to correct it is stated in the book. That's all fine and dandy, but without your TV's service manual, you'll have no idea which transistor is YOUR Horizontal Output Transistor. My only grip is that Amazon stated that this was a hardback. It's not. It's a softcover. Good Luck.

Easily the most useless purchase I ever made. The authors thoughts are random and dispersed. The book is not organized as a troubleshooting guide. It does not provide symptoms and flowcharts for determining the cause. At best it is an incomplete, brief, overview of television basics, with a couple of reminiscences of the authors experiences with tv repair. If the paper were recycled, the book would be worth .00023 cents.

This book is not well written, I have two other books from SAMS publishing and was expecting this to be of the same caliber, I was disapponinted.
There is no depth of information. At best it is an overview not a instructional tool, certianly not complete by any stretch of the imagination.
If I were you I would look to another source if you want more than a basic overview of projection TV repair.

As a computer technician, I expected to use this book in conjunction with my existing knowledge of electronics to perform basic repairs on projection televisions. I was disappointed.

Despite the title, this book is not structured as a troubleshooting guide and is anything but complete. At best, it is a broad overview of the components in a typical projection TV. The book is full of sentences like:

"If you suspect the vertical oscillator is not working..."

without explaining how or why we should suspect the vertical oscillator is not working.

If you want a broad overview of concepts and components relating to project TV repair, this book is for you. If you are looking for comprehensive troubleshooting steps, however, you should look elsewhere.

I would like to thank the people responsible for the compilation of this book. The repairman has stil has a job to do, and books like these will keep our hopes alive! Someone out there still belives in the repair business.

Thanks for this informative book.