Re: is my $3,000 lcd tv dead?

"Ken G." wrote:

what ever happen to repairing the boards them self's? Has TV repair gone
the way of car mechanic technicians?

I see many people who repair this stuff all the time not be able to do
anything without a schematic . They cant take an electronic device and
set it in front of them and spend 15 to 30 minutes checking the obvious
They must have a schematic to find a bad fuse.


yes, Ken. We know that you are the only person in the world who can
show NASA how to launch the next shuttle mission with tin foil and
Wesley's tire bleach, in spite of all the electronic equipment is
missing.



I got lucky having the chance to work on flat tv sets for a salvage
store for 5 years . I first worked on a plasma set that had bad
connections on one side of a huge several hundred lead SM chip . A
carefull resolder & it was fine .
The last flat set i worked on was last week . It was being sold for 50$
broken , a 32`` VISIO ,,LCD dated Aug of 06 . I gave the 50$ and took
it with me .
The power supply was clear full of solder problems with that crappy new
type solder
After redoing all the P.S. solders it works fine now .. it has a
digital tuner in it .

I worked on dozens of others in that 5 years fixing several . Some of
them i was able to track down problems by cheating . They had another
set just like the bad one so i was able to swap boards to find the bad
board then try to fix the board . Sometimes it was not possible to fix a
board by chance .
I found brand new sets with one plug hanging off inside somewhere or a
simple re-seat of all plugs fixed it .

Some techs are not trained to do that .


They don't have to be 'trained', just observant. OTOH, the item
shouldn't have left the factory with loose connectors.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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