Need Help With TV

Ignore their insults. You may be able to fix it. It could be a learning experience, good or bad. You'll never know until you try.

Some seem to forget how they gained their knowledge in the first place, and now that they have that knowledge they discourage others from taking the same path they did.

Actually no. Somebody who can't figure out how to connect a simple pair of cables is going to likely get himself killed if he makes the mistake of removing the cabinet cover.

This is really basic stuff.

On 18/01/2010 15:01, Alex Thomm wrote: What a mess! I can't do anything. It blocks everything that I try

It's about then I type author:Alex snipped-for-privacy@newsguy.com into google.

Troll. :-(

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Adrian C

That's not really the case. I, for one, actively encourage people to 'have a go' with help from those of us who *do* have the knowledge, but by the same token, we have to be realistic in evaluating the poster's current level of expertise, to see if what they have is appropriate for the type of repair they are trying to undertake. TV sets are potentially *very* dangerous, and it would be irresponsible of us to actively encourage someone who we felt might endanger themselves (or others) by 'having a go'. It's called "making a judgement call", and I have not seen any comments in this thread that are anything much more than that. For sure, some replies are couched in less than 'gentle' terms, but with usenet newsgroups, that's pretty much the nature of the beast ...

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165-175 volts from the power supply compared to double that in the UK and points east. I also encourage people to try, but share your concern that the OP seems vary naive and possibly likely capable of executing himself. The OP should go to the sci.electronics.repair.faq and read it through before going any further.

Often a non-technical person comes onto the newsgroups wanting to know ?what always goes wrong? simply because they are too cheap to pay to have something fixed. Additionally, they believe they can gain whatever information or expertise they might need from the Internet, at no cost or below even the most modest market value of the repair. This is sometimes true (unfortunately), but the fact is that most of these people have no business working on electronic equipment AT ALL. These people have no respect for our profession, viewing it (and us) as a commodity they can essentially pick up at Wal-Mart for pennies on the dollar, or even for nothing at all.

I'm not opposed to helping newbies, if they have some hint of technical ability, but a television is a bad place to start learning.

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I have to agree that this may not be the best place to start learning electronics. With HC/HV (high current/high voltage), you rarely if ever get a second chance. Not to mentions, that just acquiring the tools to do the job correctly can easily cost more than a repair. At least have a friend that knows electronics help you. If you make the currently wise decision to take it to a shop, they may let you hang around and watch them troubleshoot it and fix it. I understand that taking things into a shop to have them fixed, may not be economically viable for everyone, but a television is not worth dieing for.

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Mark, I have to say that you definitly put it like it is. I can't tell you how many people have told me over the years something like, "my TV won't come on and the little power button in the front needs to be replaced". Or they want to buy a resistor to replace the one that has completely illegibly incinerated. I will talk them out of the repair, however I have friends in the trade that will sell them the fuse and resistor because they know as sure as there will be another sunset that as soon as the next smoke test is over, he'll never hear from the fool again. ..Lenny.