Ho ho ho, my Plasma has died. A Panasonic TH-42PV60A
The fault looks like this:
A back bar down the right side with a white stripe. Rest of the image is perfect.
It'll go to a local TV service dude in due course, would just like some expert opinions on the likely prognosis?
Rarely gets any use, just a few hours a week at most. Not quite 3 years old.
Not under warranty of course.
Thanks Dave.
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"David L. Jones"
** No it hasn't.** Errr - a strip of back "gaffa" tape will fix that one !!
Dude !!!!!!!!!!!
BTW
Santa brought me a Rigol DS1052E for Xmas.
One very neat piece of kit.
The FFT function and the counter with period mode for continuous 6 digit resolution are killers.
The Chinese character instruction booklet is priceless !
.... Phil
Well, ok, it's sick, it has to go to the toy hospital.
Well, yeah, kinda. But it would suck if say the twin suns on Tatooine became just the one sun instead.
I like Santa! Does Santa use eBay? Can't believe the price is now almost half of what I paid for mine.
Yeah, for the price it's pretty darn neat.
I prefer good Chinglish myself.
Dave.
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Hi, perhaps these may help, even though a different brand.
Cheers Greg
My LG 42PY10X had a similar problem, a red line down the left side, I don't know whether Panasonic use the LG chassis, I believe that several manufacturers do. Mine was caused by the control board which is notorious for having bad joints on some resistors. My original idea was to resolder the joints until I found out that there were 144 surface mount resistors involved, and without a microscope or a workshop manual to localise the problem I didn't want to spend the time redoing 288 surface mount joints, so I bought an upgraded board for $190.
It took about1.5 hours to change the board, no soldering, just a lot of screws and connectors.
I actually saw that done on a LCD or plasma type monitor in a bar a few months back. When I asked, that was the reason given, to hide a faulty part. Ingenious :)
Trust me, you will love it :)
90% of what I have used it for so far has been microcontroller development stuff, on which its brilliant and a real time saver.Discovered too that if I left it on and wasn't in the workshop, the fan on the side became a cat cooler.
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