Weird colors: I've a '93 SONY Trinitron Multiscan 20se monitor. Whites are all pinkish, yellows are

[mikey]

Text is sharp as new. Details are sharp as new. Screen geometry is
still good as new.

Reds - best I can get are funny gold/copper shades.
Greens - leans towards bluish
Yellows - more like goldish
Blues - close but on the turquoise side
Whites - always a pinkish purpleish

It got like this over a couple of weeks. It would start out weird like
now and then after a few minutes all would be perfect color again. Then
as time went on it just took longer and longer to return to normal
colors. Now - it just stays weird.

So I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have an idea of what's going
on with it, and, what am I looking at ($) to lug it down to get it
fixed?

I'd surely appreciate any thoughts and maybe some advice on this. I
already owe my soul to MasterCard and I'd hate to have to give up my
first born tooŠ ;-)

Thank you,
mikey

 

[James Sweet]

Text is sharp as new. Details are sharp as new. Screen geometry is
still good as new.

Reds - best I can get are funny gold/copper shades.
Greens - leans towards bluish
Yellows - more like goldish
Blues - close but on the turquoise side
Whites - always a pinkish purpleish

It got like this over a couple of weeks. It would start out weird like
now and then after a few minutes all would be perfect color again. Then
as time went on it just took longer and longer to return to normal
colors. Now - it just stays weird.

So I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have an idea of what's going
on with it, and, what am I looking at ($) to lug it down to get it
fixed?

I'd surely appreciate any thoughts and maybe some advice on this. I
already owe my soul to MasterCard and I'd hate to have to give up my
first born tooS ;-)

Thank you,
mikey

Maybe the degaussing coil is stuck on? Hard to say though, sounds like it'd
be worth having it looked at.

 

[Art]

Lots of Panasonics and Sonys have a problem with the dagauss thermistor and
associated relay. Possible that you are experiencing that problem, or the
crt is getting weak and the AKB can no longer compensate.

 

[mikey]

Maybe the degaussing coil is stuck on? Hard to say though, sounds like it'd
be worth having it looked at.

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Thank you James and Art,
I will lug it Monday morning to a shop and have it looked at by an
expert.
I'd hate to give it up. Sony's just seem to keep going and going.
So again - Thank you lots.
mikey