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Sony KV-32S45 - Turns green and switches off

Dec 17, 2004 12:52PM PST

Hi there, I have a sony KV32S45 TV which is about 6 years old and these days the tv turns green and switches off in about 2 to 3 minutes. about couple of months ago, it would do that intermittently but now it's down to 20 seconds to 3 minutes. I didn't want to junk to without find out if I can get it repaired. Thanks in advance

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Don't want the tv repair persons mad at me...
Dec 17, 2004 3:32PM PST

but my guess is your picture tube may be gone; I think it's cheaper to get another one.

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Some Info for you
Jan 12, 2005 4:53AM PST

While researching a slightly different problem on some repair forums, I saw many references to problems that sound similar to what you describe. The problem was generally attributed to a capacitor, not a tube. There was more detailed info available on these boards. People suggested that the repair cost would be about 200-250 if professionally serviced, but could be done very inexpensively if could be done yourself. The part is inexpensive.

Try doing a search on TV turns itself off or some variants and you will likely hit upon some of these discussions.

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Sony is notorious for bad power supplies
Jan 21, 2005 7:39AM PST

The post on bad capacitor is exactly correct. It is not a bad tube. These things are SUPER cheap if you can do it yourself.