Apex 20" PF2025

There is no service support for this TV set. They will take back your old set, and send you another set. When the warranty finishes, and if the set goes defective, it will have to be replaced.

There are some private refirbishers who are buying up scrappers from the warranty exchanges. They are swapping out boards, and parts, to build up some working sets. These are being sold at discounts at flea-markets, and etc. They are also doing this with many of the throw-away electronics. .

Jerry G. ======

Any qualified and trained tv technician can generally troubleshoot many repairs without a schematic. Getting parts may be harder. But honestly, the technician has to make a living. Most repairs like that will take a couple of hours total time, troubleshooting, parts research and procurement, actual repair. Your basic typical repair labor is really going to be around $50 at any decent local servicer.

You buy a throw away tv, you get a throw away tv. Either you are willing to have it repaired or not. You will note that the model you have has no available service manual:

So it is obvious the service options are limited, but many common repairs a good technician will still be able to repair.

To everyone else who catches this post, make note of the link for some limited APEX manuals.

The old bad switch trick, yep every time a set is dead it's "the switch", simple, simple. I'm glad to be in a business that all day long all we see bad is "switches". Rant, but the truth, NOT.

Good day...Apex is a throw away TV.. they are cheap and do not last, the best thing to do with this TV is put it by the curb and get another brand next time

You bought cheap you got cheap. Next time buy a Real TV

Yep, there certainly are days like that....

As for cheap Apex TV's check the startup diode! It is located (from memory) between the 24 V line and the start up 12 (or 15) V supply line. This known bad diode 'on startup' supplies the voltage to the hor. oscillator. It is a common fault with those cheap Apex and it makes for an easy buck.... estimated repair time less than 30 minutes.

Happy trouble shooting!

migi: If, indeed, the problem is with the power switch (which it almost never is) then you should be able to turn on your television with the remote control thus bypassing the switch altogether. Most likely there is a fault in the circuitry that would require a technically inclined person to troubleshoot and repair...... at the very least you should TAKE it to a service shop for at the very least a repair cost estimate so you can make a service decision with fact instead of Internet or telephone wild guesses.

-- Best Regards, Daniel Sofie Electronics Supply & Repair

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Does anyone know what happened with Apex and the Chinese. I read about 6 months ago that one of their top people was arrested in China because Apex hadn't paid for something like $500,000,000 worth of electronics. Believe it or not, Apex is an American company, they just contract everything out to cheap Chinese manufacturers. Andy Cuffe

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How about "It's probably just a blown fuse"? Or "The fuse blew, so I put in a bigger fuse, and that blew, so I put in a bigger......."

James

Even though I think that it's something that isn't complicated to fix, since it didn't make any noice, I don't want to mess with it because I wouldn't know how to go about it. But I guess I have an idea on what to expect if I take it to someone. Thanks for the advice.

What does noise have to do with it? I suspect there's some cracked solder joints in the power supply section.

nah!!, he must of opened the case and let the smoke out! you know, if you don't get the smoke back in it will never work again!