Book Description:
Since its first edition, this longtime best-seller has been the place to start for everyone--electronics beginners, hobbyists, and inexperiened technicians--who wants to learn how to repair a TV. It teaches the basic operation and repair of all standard TV components, from the receiver and picture tube to the antenna and sound system, and shows how to do it with just basic tools and no schematic. This revised edition features new sections on universal remote transmitters, stereo TV, digital controls, new color circuits and picture tube sizes, and lots of new troubleshooting material. It even includes an entire chapter on ``symptoms and causes'' for quick troubleshooting, and a special section on installing digital satellite receivers.
From the Back Cover:
The definitive do-it-yourself TV repair guide! TV Repair For Beginners, Revised and Expanded Attention, TV lovers! This book is your best defense against any interruption in that source of fabulous entertainment sitting a remote-click away. Let's face it, nothing is worse than the TV going on the blink. No sports, no news, no game shows, no soaps, no talk, no cops-and-robbers. Life without TV is simply hardly worth living. It must be fixed, and pronto, but how? You can pay a stupendous amount for a house call or you can haul it to the repair shop yourself and still be charged a fortune. This book offers a better way. It shows you how very simple repairing your own TV an be! Without technical jargon, it shows and tells you how to troubleshoot and repair the most common TV problems--and avoid those expensive repair bills! Photographs and charts lead you through each repair step-by-step. The book's emphasis is on pinpointing the problem and fixing it--using just a few basic tools. You also get plenty of material on simple ways to upgrade old TVs with new add-ons. This revised and expanded edition features a wealth of timely and practical new material on: Universal remote transmitters. Stereo TV; Digital controls; New color circuits and picture tube sizes; Installing digital satellite receivers.
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