I killed my Hitachi 28" widescreen ;-(

From: T i m (news_at_spaced.me.uk)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:49:43 GMT

Hi all,

A friend recently gave me a fairly young Hitachi 28" widescreen nicam
TV that he had just got fed up with.

It had an intermittent fault where it would cut out then:

a) restart on it's own ..

b) be turned back on from the remote ..

c) be restarted by lifting the right front corner and dropping it 1".
(he said) ;-(

With the set running, if you tapped the case (flat hand) you saw horiz
noise bars.

I spoke to a few folk (local TV shop, N/G, Ex TV repair man) and a dry
joint was suggested likely "around the PSU etc".

Yesterday I took the main board out and de-re-soldered lots of the
bigger joints (but didn't find anything 'obvious') and re-assembled,
now nothing at all. (I think I might hear a slight 'click' about 10
seconds after turning it on .. degauss maybe?)

So I've killed it <sigh> (I was hoping to give it to my elderly Mum &
Dad) ;-(

My ex TV man might be able to pop round for a quick look at it (in
case I've missed anything obvious) and / or point me towards a TV man
he knows locally.

Its a C28W430N-??? (133 .. from memory)?

Any thoughts please folks?

All the best ..

T i m (London)