Aucma CRT television screen blank but power ON led lighted.

I received an Aucma television assembled here in Kenya in my shop for

repair, the screen was blank and therefore I decide to open it for further
investigating.

The power ON light was green and therefore I expected the power
supply was okay and therefore after opening the set I went straight to the
RGB circuit.

Just before I was about to pull my meter to do some voltage testing on

this circuit I noticed that the heater light was ON.

Once I saw the heater bulb was ON I kept aside the meter and proceeded
to the fly back transformer looking for the screen POT.
I adjusted it slightly and the screen was now full of light, but there were
retrace lines across the screen and I guessed I have set the screen voltage
too high.

So I continued to adjust the screen voltage down and still I could not
solve this problem of retrace lines.

 So I decided to continue with checking the voltage at the CRT neck
board, I started with the RGB voltages and I noted they are all high.
I checked the voltages at the base of the RGB transistors and I got Zero
volts in all the three transistors. This explains why the RGB voltage was
high, since there was no bias voltage (base) all the three transistors
behaved as if they were open.

I followed back this circuit down to the jungle I.C. The TV was using
I.C TDA11105, on this I.C the RGB out were labeled clearly and
therefore I decided to test the voltages and still got almost zero volts.

I was not happy with this voltage and I was about to begin blaming the
jungle I.C as the cause of the problem.

I normally do this as the last my resort and therefore I was careful not to
make quick conclusion about this I.C.
While still thinking about what next, I remembered when testing the
RGB connector at the neck of the CRT tube I was expecting at the four
pins connector  at least the R to be around 2volts,G=2 volts B=2 volts
then zero ground and around 8 volts.

I remembered the 8 volts was reading 4 volts and therefore decided to do

some testing on the line.

From the main I.C pin 42 was supposed to be 8 volts and when I
measured it I got again 4 volts which is still suspicious.
Usually when voltage drop can be a hint for a shorted component or
filter capacitor on that line has developed his ESR and therefore I tested
all the Capacitor with an ESR meter and all tested good.

Then I decided to do resistance test along the 8 volts line to see what is
blocking this voltage.

When testing across one diode I noted the meter beep on both sides of
the diode and to me this was not normal.

Actually I was testing from the bottom side and therefore what made me
become curious is while testing for continuity I noticed a beep when the
meter was on the live line and when on the ground and this lead me to
conclude that there is a shorted component on that line and the ground.
(Tip, the best place to pick a shorted line is testing across the filter
capacitor between positive (+) and negative (-) leg)… any beep means
there is a component shorted on that line.

When I got the beep both sides of the diode highlighted below.  I
decided to lift one leg out of the circuit and re-test and indeed I still got a
beep and therefore concluded that the diode was sorted.

Looking on the circuit board I noted it was not just a diode but a zener
diode.

To know the voltage rating with this Zener diode I figured out that since
it was 8 volts source then it must be rated around 8.2 volts and went to
the shop to get one since I did not have this in my store.

I replaced the zener diode, applied the power and I was happy with what
I show on the screen…Back to normal.