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I was once burned by a Samsung TV whose backlight LED's got so hot they melted the innards of the TV... Any engineer designing stuff with high power LED's know

I was once burned by a Samsung TV whose backlight LED's got so hot they melted the innards of the TV... Any engineer designing stuff with high power LED's knows how important thermal design is. The LED's should have had temperature sensing and software feedback to reduce the brightness to stop everything melting. That could have been implemented by measuring the forward voltage... Or with a dedicated temperature sensor. But on a $1000 TV, Samsung didn't want to pay the 1 cent per unit plus a day of engineering time that would have taken. And as a result, the TV's had a high failure rate and they lost me as a customer.

is_true 4y ago
A friend bought a Samsung TV and after 13 months it broke, when he took it to guy that does the service in our town he had like 3 more (same model) that had the same problem. We live in a small town.
nebula8804 4y ago
Nice to know that it isn't just their exploding washers/dryers and their 1000$ fridges that fail right after the warranty expires, its also their TVs that burn you. Lets not forget their exploding phones. That was a fun meme for a hot second. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ddIfgarPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ddIfgarPg [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_FbhYzmNHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_FbhYzmNHQ Its amazing how they managed to really become the leaders(or near leaders) in a lot of fields while still shipping so much junk. This sounds like a great opportunity for American firms to come back in and really shine.