It’s amazing that you don’t get a diode fault for some time and then you get two different TVs with a diode fault. Great fix Allen. Regards, Brian 👍👏🏴👍👏🏴
Another set with defective schottky diodes, good that we buy them in bulk. Alba today are just a brand name, but as said they were very popular many years ago as makers of mass market prouducts that were cheaper than the Japanese brands but worked well and were easy to repair.
Both Bush and Alba brands are owned by Sainsbury's (so essentially Argos, named after the Greek god of tat). Alba was quietly retired a couple of years ago as Bush was seen as being higher end. I find that funny as I never regarded either as being anything other than being early examples of Chinesiun crap.
Those small Alba TVs actually break down!?!? and it’s not just the usual broken DVD player or remote 😊 Those things were so cheap but great for playing Wii or older retro consoles with their SCART sockets 👍
The HITACHI name was used on vestel tv,s for the UK sold in argos mostly,vestel are a powerhouse, sharp microwaves which were sharp manufactured and made for europe have now became nothing more than rebranded vestels so a badge means nothing.
Some of these smaller sets may be good for retro computers and consoles i have crt,s for this reason but a cheap sony or old 4.3 aspect ratio lcd would be another lower power option an conserve the tubes a bit in my older sets .
Blimey chum. How much is electricity where you live. Customer paid £25 and he was ecstatic. But I agree it’s peanuts. But the later samsung got me £150 so I won’t go hungry today
I was only jesting. I used to repair TV and audio from 1974 till 96ish. It always amazed me how people think that a TV should be repaired for next to nothing, yet it is a complicated piece of equipment.. I spent 5 years as an apprentice starting at 9.17 pence a week. Ended up working for Rediffusion on 48.00 pounds a week.. plus a vehicle thrown in .. keep up the good work.. Tony
It’s amazing that you don’t get a diode fault for some time and then you get two different TVs with a diode fault. Great fix Allen. Regards, Brian 👍👏🏴👍👏🏴
Another set with defective schottky diodes, good that we buy them in bulk.
Alba today are just a brand name, but as said they were very popular many years ago
as makers of mass market prouducts that were cheaper than the Japanese brands but
worked well and were easy to repair.
I always took the piss out of people with ALBA TVs & stereos back in the 80s and 90s lol
In my day, Alba was part of the Thorn group, and Bush was part of Rank Bush Murphy group, made in Redruth and Plymouth I think..
Alba made good equipment.
Yes, they did. When it was made in the UK ..
Both Bush and Alba brands are owned by Sainsbury's (so essentially Argos, named after the Greek god of tat).
Alba was quietly retired a couple of years ago as Bush was seen as being higher end. I find that funny as I never regarded either as being anything other than being early examples of Chinesiun crap.
Those small Alba TVs actually break down!?!? and it’s not just the usual broken DVD player or remote 😊 Those things were so cheap but great for playing Wii or older retro consoles with their SCART sockets 👍
alba and bush are both argos own brand these days
The HITACHI name was used on vestel tv,s for the UK sold in argos mostly,vestel are a powerhouse, sharp microwaves which were sharp manufactured and made for europe have now became nothing more than rebranded vestels so a badge means nothing.
Used to be a good make years back, and that tv is like 14 years they don’t make them how they use to nice fix Allen thanks 😊
Some of these smaller sets may be good for retro computers and consoles i have crt,s for this reason but a cheap sony or old 4.3 aspect ratio lcd would be another lower power option an conserve the tubes a bit in my older sets .
I guess that TV uses cold cathode backlighting at that age or does it use L.E.D if its the ccfl they do run hot i wonder if that causes issues.
Yes. CCFL but the diodes are on the 12v rail not the 24.
quick easy fix but is that tv worth bothering with?...
Customer thought so £25 to keep it going
Twenty quid, ? Your soldering iron costs more than that in electricity to keep it hot .. plus, the solder and diodes.. !!
Blimey chum. How much is electricity where you live. Customer paid £25 and he was ecstatic. But I agree it’s peanuts. But the later samsung got me £150 so I won’t go hungry today
I was only jesting. I used to repair TV and audio from 1974 till 96ish. It always amazed me how people think that a TV should be repaired for next to nothing, yet it is a complicated piece of equipment.. I spent 5 years as an apprentice starting at 9.17 pence a week. Ended up working for Rediffusion on 48.00 pounds a week.. plus a vehicle thrown in .. keep up the good work.. Tony