VR241 Service Manual?

It's also not in (for example) the VT240 manuals. The VR201 is, but said manuals specifically refer you to a VR241 documentation set. What do you need to know? I've reverse-engineered the schematic and can send you that, but if you do delve inside (a) Good Luck and (b) be very careful. IIRC there is mains where you might not expect it. It's a Hitachi chassis, and it shares some feautures with Hitachi televisions of the period. There is a thick-film hybrid module in the middle of the deflection board. It contains the sync/oscillator IC and the vertical output stage. The IC, output transistors and a few other componets are soldered to the module, the resistors are thick film traces. The power supply is evil. It's a switcher, and it runs off the _horizontal deflection_ oscillator. So for the power supply to run, the horizontal oscillator, horizontal output, flyback transformer, etc must all be good. There is a little multivibrator on the PSU board to kick the thing into life when you turn it on. -tony