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I tried to repair a TV recently, I really thought it was going to be a cap (not that I've repaired one before) but seems it was a backlight issue, and that it's
by OJFord 3y ago
I tried to repair a TV recently, I really thought it was going to be a cap (not that I've repaired one before) but seems it was a backlight issue, and that it's common for the model. Although in a way that it could somehow detect it seems, and refuse to do anything. Front light behaviour etc. wasn't normal, it wasn't merely that it was unlit.
It's still sitting there at the moment, but it's for the dump unfortunately. (I have a better one to pass on due to my own upgrade, and actually they're renting a new place that will likely come furnished with one anyway.)
- wkat4242 3y agoOlder TVs have CCFL backlight that ages (and browns). Just like fluorescent tubes. LED backlights are much better in this way. And they don't contain mercury. Indeed a CCFL is hard to replace, but if it's LED it's probably something in the driving circuitry. Take out the driver board and get someone more electronic minded to look at it, it might still be something simple.
- OJFord 3y agoI do have an EE degree, I just decided it was beyond worth-bothering repair at that point. Much as I dislike the waste, as I said there are better options available gathering dust even of I do repair it. Someone may see it and deem it worth bothering at the dump, it's not immediate land-fill/recycling here for things like that. I gather electronics/white goods are generally taken too, for parts salvage if nothing else.
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- 7speter 3y agoIs the tv, by any chance, a sony?
- OJFord 3y agoNo, Toshiba.