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Hello,
I recently picked up this tv from craigslist for dirt cheap as it was not working and the original owners just wanted to get rid of it, and being the poor college student thats interested in electronics I decided to pick it up and take a crack at repairing it.
I have been browsing these forums for the past couple weeks and found a lot of very useful information(seriously this is one of the most informative and well kept web sites I've ever visited).
Anyway so far All I've done is taken it apart and poked around inside a little bit, I removed the power supply and glanced over it to see if there were any glaring problems, but it looks to be in pretty good shape (theres a little corrosion on some of the solder, but I don't think that is breaking the connection?). I put the power supply back in and tried to turn it on again, and it actually was able to turn on(I think this is mostly because I noticed the solder on the on switch was very loose and I don't think I was even pressing it before when I was testing), but then immediately turned off after about 4 seconds. No fuses are blowing, but it will turn off after 4 seconds every time I try to power it on.
I read in the DIY sticky thread that the convergence boards will send signals to turn the tv off if something is wrong, so my next plan of attack was to take them out and see if the tv will power on to try to narrow down my problem. I am making a thread on the problem if anyone has any words of advice or know of any common problems with this model (I understand its quite old). I will keep it updated as I figured more out.
Thanks in advance for any advice and keep up the great work!
I recently picked up this tv from craigslist for dirt cheap as it was not working and the original owners just wanted to get rid of it, and being the poor college student thats interested in electronics I decided to pick it up and take a crack at repairing it.
I have been browsing these forums for the past couple weeks and found a lot of very useful information(seriously this is one of the most informative and well kept web sites I've ever visited).
Anyway so far All I've done is taken it apart and poked around inside a little bit, I removed the power supply and glanced over it to see if there were any glaring problems, but it looks to be in pretty good shape (theres a little corrosion on some of the solder, but I don't think that is breaking the connection?). I put the power supply back in and tried to turn it on again, and it actually was able to turn on(I think this is mostly because I noticed the solder on the on switch was very loose and I don't think I was even pressing it before when I was testing), but then immediately turned off after about 4 seconds. No fuses are blowing, but it will turn off after 4 seconds every time I try to power it on.
I read in the DIY sticky thread that the convergence boards will send signals to turn the tv off if something is wrong, so my next plan of attack was to take them out and see if the tv will power on to try to narrow down my problem. I am making a thread on the problem if anyone has any words of advice or know of any common problems with this model (I understand its quite old). I will keep it updated as I figured more out.
Thanks in advance for any advice and keep up the great work!