Troubleshooting CRT Television with

HV (high voltage) is present but the

screen is dark (blank)
There are several factors which can cause high
voltage present but the screen is dark (blank), but
for now I am going to talk about one of the causes.
Heater Circuit.
First be sure High voltage (HV) is present. This you
can easily confirm by listening (hearing), I have
pointed out elsewhere on my blog troubleshooting
electronics using body senses like Sight, hearing,
taste, smell and touch is allowed.

So you can use any of those depending on the

situation at hand, they are also free gift from your
maker just like oxygen and therefore expect no bill
at the end of the month by using them.
You can easily confirm the presence of HV by
listening to the CHAA sounds or feel for the static
son the screen using the back of your hand.
After you confirm HV is present, move on to small
neck board at the back of CRT TV, there is a glass
tube where this board is connected and inside it
you should see something like a small bulb.
Usually if it is working it light up like a normal
bulb, if there is light on it means that the heater is
okay and therefore should focus your
troubleshooting somewhere else.
If the bulb is off check the heater circuit and re-
solder all dry joints on the circuit including the
heater pin at the CRT neck board-very common to
have dry joints here.

The source of heater is usually the flyback, so

trace your way there looking for more dry joints,
open track or resistor.
Heater circuit use a.c voltage so you will not find
any diode or capacitor on this circuit, only a low
value resistor which act as fuse and therefore can
go open or change value to high and both will
affect this circuit.

You can easily confirm if there is open circuit by

using meter set to low ohm (200 ohms) and test
for continuity between the fly-back (heater) pin
and the heater pin at the CRT neck board.