Sony KV-35V45 Picture flashes on and off, greenish.

[cheebster]

Minnie; i really wonder what's the issue here. I've tapped HARDER on the neck of the crt with a rubber screwdriver. Picture went rock solid black, and the 'VIDEO 1' text on the screen suddently went as clean as it could be. I hooked a video signal, and screen was really nice, colors and all.

After 30 minutes, i noticed colors went back slowly to the more darker and pink state. What's my exact issue here ? 2 of the wires in the crt are shorting ?

Thanks, Vincent.

[minnie]

So are you saying your set shuts down in tuner mode and comes back on video 1?

[Guest]

Nope ! The set came back to solid black background color when being set to VIDEO1 input without any input connected. The VIDEO1 text came back from an ugly fuzzy state like in the image i posted, to a CLEAN green bright text.

I switched to the tuner input, the snow wasn't 'pinky' anymore.

Then, i connected an rca video source to video1. Image was clean and perfect.

After some time, image came back to greenish and pink whites.

I'm affraid i'm gonna break the crt tube by hitting that hard on it.

Thanks, Vincent.

[minnie]

You could try replacing the flyback.