I have a samsung pcn5425r since Aug 03 and just last week I started getting this ghost effect. I checked the convergence and the blue was alright but the red was out of whack so I decided to open up the back and saw the three different lenses. the blue was working but the green and red was not. Any suggestions. Thanks!
When you say the blue was working but the red and green were not, was there any light comming out of the lens? By the way the green is not suppose to move, as it is the center color and the other two colors adjust around the green. If your saying that the red and the green lines did not move then the convergence IC's are bad and they are STK-392-040 or the convergence module is available and the new part number is BP9500415B and cost about 85 to 90 bucks plus shipping. The module is available HERE. If you have no TV repair knowledge, play it safe and call in a pro to assit you in this repair as very rarely can you replace a module and not have some alighnments to do on the TV set. To do these alighnments you have to go into the TV's service menu and doing that without the knowledge , the knowhow and a service manual is very dangerous. I have seen sets that had to be trashed because a customer has gone into the service menu and statrted changing this and the set was not worth repair after that.. Good Luck, stay safe and let us know how this repair turns out for you.
Thanks for responding. Light was coming out of the blue lens and not from the red lens. I was quoted a quote before my post and explain to the tv tech what was wrong. They said they still had to do a diagnostics for $80 to figure out what was wrong and a minimum of $500 to fix it. So if you say that this is what is wrong I"ll order it and maybe get a tv tech to assist. Please reply to confirm. Thanks a lot!!!
So the blue picture tube was not lighting up, how about the green tube. Is that one out too?
The blue is lighting up, but the green and red is not lighting up.
Is there an orange glow down by the socket on all three tubes?