TVs on Standby.
I have had an expensive week-end. My 5 year-old CRT widesreen Television packed up. I had started doing the 'Green thing', and switching it off at night, or when I went out for a few hours. In my case this was a bad mistake. Came in on Friday night, switched on, and for a few minutes all was well, then a click, and Jonathan Ross turned blue in the face.(That at least was funny, never did much like the bloke anyway, sorry you fans!) Red Blue Green halos round everything told me of a Colour Gun, and or Shadow Mask failure, which would have been too costly to fix even if a new CRT could have been obtained, along with a little 'White Haired Old Boy' with specialist skills to re-alighn everything etc. Why was it a bad mistake? Well if your CRT TV is used to be on 'Standby' for years at a given tempreture, and then suddenly that tempreture starts to fluctuate over a wider range, it very often spells death to any CRT TV unless you are very lucky, a fact that is well known but ignored by me at the time!.My fault of course, from my RAF Radar Mechanic days I should have remembered that leaving CRTs and Valves on 'Heaters'prolongs their life.I love 'Green Politicians',and attendant 'Luvvies' etc said my Supplier, since all this propaganda, my sales of Flat Screen LCD TVs, has gone through the roof! If you still have a CRT TV be warned, a visit to the 'dump' may soon be your lot!!!In any situation of course someone ends up living 'The Life of Riley'I suppose.
Colin Vaughan ● 6329d4 Comments