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toshiba tony · 15th Jul 2019, 2:14 pm

Well this post on the CS has floored me. I hated it as we saw so many. Looking back I can't think of a worse one. Except maybe the 18 inch Pye CT200 and the Pye hybrid 691\697. Sharp were so sure about their CS. They came to our workshops because we considering mass dealership. Peals of laughter, he took a working set to demo on, we were all engineers and he bored the pants off us all. Then he started prattling on about opto-couplers not liking heat. They also don't like being connected 180 degrees to the board. And these were the top guys from Sharp.
Went to the LG site at Milton Keynes on a number of instances, in the days of Plasma. Their guys blew up two new sets. Even then all they could do was swap boards. And these were guys they brought over from Korea. Repairing to component level was frowned upon. No wonder this trade died. As is obvious there are one or two real teccies on here but diminishing yearly.

15th Jul 2019, 2:14 pm	#29
toshiba tony Heptode Join Date: May 2006 Location: Accrington, Lancashire, UK. Posts: 978	Re: The Sharp CS chassis- our least favourite TV Well this post on the CS has floored me. I hated it as we saw so many. Looking back I can't think of a worse one. Except maybe the 18 inch Pye CT200 and the Pye hybrid 691\697. Sharp were so sure about their CS. They came to our workshops because we considering mass dealership. Peals of laughter, he took a working set to demo on, we were all engineers and he bored the pants off us all. Then he started prattling on about opto-couplers not liking heat. They also don't like being connected 180 degrees to the board. And these were the top guys from Sharp. Went to the LG site at Milton Keynes on a number of instances, in the days of Plasma. Their guys blew up two new sets. Even then all they could do was swap boards. And these were guys they brought over from Korea. Repairing to component level was frowned upon. No wonder this trade died. As is obvious there are one or two real teccies on here but diminishing yearly.