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About Rick Montgomery
Expertise
Most questions about 1970's-1980's audio equipment. Most 1980's -1990's VCR's and VCR combo's. Most 1980's-1990's car audio, except original equipment. I know name brand after-market such as Kenwood, Pioneer, JVC, and some Sony. I am not so good with TV's, DVD's or camcorders. I do not work on Projection TV sets at all. I also have no access to documebntation for sets outside of the United States.

Experience
Professional Electronics Technician since 1975, specializing in most audio, home, portable and car. Also all VCR's. Limited TV knowledge. No projection TV experience

Organizations
Through work, NESDA.

Publications
n/a

Education/Credentials
High School. Graduated with 2 yrs Vocational Electronics in High School.

Awards and Honors
Certificates of completion of factory training seminars for various brands

Past/Present Clients
Thousands of customers to the Service Centers I have worked for.

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TV/VCR/Stereo Troubleshooting - Philips 60pp920217f

Expert: Rick Montgomery - 11/2/2009

Question
My husband and I just got this tv from a neighbor, but we were told a bulb went out. The problem is that neither one of us has seen a tv with a bulb out, and I can not find a replacement bulb for this either. The picture is double and is red and green. Do you by any chance know how we might go about fixing this problem? Thanks

Answer
Tiffany,
Let me start by reminding you that this is a projection TV, and as I stated in my profile, I do not work on projection TV's. From your description though, I do know what your problem is. Although there are TV's that use lamps for projecting the image onto the screen, your model is not one of them. Your set has 3 picture tubes, one for each of the 3 primary colors of light, red, green, and blue. Each one projects it's component of the complete color picture to a mirror on the back of the set, then onto the screen that you watch. There is a circuit that causes the 3 images to align, or CONVERGE into the single image you see. There is a defect in your convergence amplifier. The best analogy I can give you is if you had a stereo with one channel shorted out. It wouldn't matter where you set the volume or tone controls. Until the amplifier is repaired, you will not get any sound. Likewise, with your projection TV, until you have the convergence amplifier repaired, the images will not be able to align. In our service center, this usually runs between $200 and $400 to repair.
I hope this helps you.
regards,
Rick

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