I had received a 50" Dell plasma tv for free from my old job. It hung on the wall in tech support displaying department stats and one day it bit the dust. Just a single power light.
I was told I could take it if I wanted it and could fix it.
That was over two years ago.
Last night I finally got my lazy butt around to fixing it.
After checking out some forums and watching some video's on youtube I found the most common problems with it. Either a driver IC or bad capacitors. Being this one turned on but never got a picture at all I was banking on bad cap's.
After opening it up I could see 3 domed cap's on the power supply and set to taking the board out and de-soldering those cap's.
Here they are, the one got a little squished taking it out as it was held in place by some glue. No matter as they are going in the bin,
10 minutes later I had 3 new cap's taken out of an old blown PC power supply that I got for free for parts. I was lucky enough to find 3 exact replacements on the first power supply I grabbed. ( I was given a big of them ).
The moment of truth came, the board was installed back in, wires connected, ground screws in and power cord hooked up. Standing back to make sure I didn't get a face of exploding components, in case anything else was wrong with it, and I hit the power button and instantly had a picture.
Success!
We now have a fully working 50" plasma tv. All for free.
It only cost me about an hour's worth of time.
Now I only need to either find a stand for it, make one or get a wall mount.
I was told I could take it if I wanted it and could fix it.
That was over two years ago.
Last night I finally got my lazy butt around to fixing it.
After checking out some forums and watching some video's on youtube I found the most common problems with it. Either a driver IC or bad capacitors. Being this one turned on but never got a picture at all I was banking on bad cap's.
After opening it up I could see 3 domed cap's on the power supply and set to taking the board out and de-soldering those cap's.
Here they are, the one got a little squished taking it out as it was held in place by some glue. No matter as they are going in the bin,
10 minutes later I had 3 new cap's taken out of an old blown PC power supply that I got for free for parts. I was lucky enough to find 3 exact replacements on the first power supply I grabbed. ( I was given a big of them ).
The moment of truth came, the board was installed back in, wires connected, ground screws in and power cord hooked up. Standing back to make sure I didn't get a face of exploding components, in case anything else was wrong with it, and I hit the power button and instantly had a picture.
Success!
We now have a fully working 50" plasma tv. All for free.
It only cost me about an hour's worth of time.
Now I only need to either find a stand for it, make one or get a wall mount.
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