VERTICAL FOLDOVER

Report in Etro 8

Submitted by: Arvin Natividad

Submitted to: Mr. Renz Baldovino
VERTICAL FOLDOVER

The picture is squashed vertically and a part of it

may be flipped over and distorted. Picture folded down
or seems to be doubled at bottom.
TROUBLES

This usually indicates a fault in the vertical output

circuit. If it uses an IC for this, then the chip could be
bad. It could also be a bad capacitor or other
component in this circuit. It is probably caused by a
fault in the flyback portion of the vertical deflection
circuit - a charge pump that generates a high voltage
spike to return the beam to the top of the screen.
As a general rule, vertical faults can be divided into two
types: ones that cause geometric distortion (a circle
will not be round) and those that simply black out a
portion of the screen. The former are faults in the
vertical oscillator, drive, or output stages. The latter
are blanking faults. Blanking faults are almost always
caused by electrolytic capacitors changing value and
thereby changing the timing of the pulses which blank
the screen during vertical retrace. In other words, the
pulses are turning off the video signals at the wrong
time.
The most common true vertical fault is geometric distortion
and a foldover of white lines at the top of the screen. This is
almost always caused by the electrolytic capacitor on or
near the collector of the vertical output transistor or part of
the IC which has the supply voltage (B+) on it. In the old
tube days, the general rule was that bottom distortion was
in the cathode of the output tube and distortion at the top
was caused by a fault in the drive circuit.
REMEDY

Vertical suddenly fold over?

Test components in the vertical output stage or

substitute for good ones.
Vertical IC loosing connection with board. This is a
problem with the vertical circuit and is relatively
common. If you can solder you can fix this yourself.
First try resoldering the pins on the vertical IC. If
that fails to resolve the problem, replace the IC. This IC
is a small flat IC attached to a heatsink having about 11
pins or so. Is will be marked LA7837 or something
similar.
If you have a picture but the top is folded over, your
vertical IC is probably good and you need to replace
the pump-up capacitor next to the IC. When the
pump-up cap (typically a 47 or 100uF 35V cap) is
open then the picture will have white lines and
foldover at the top. The typical vertical output IC is
the LA7838.