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Old 05-03-2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut View Post
A friend of mine who runs a shop claims he fixes a good many LCD's and plasma's by replacing swollen caps and resoldering bad connections. I have not gotten that lucky. Granted, I've only had a few flat panel TV's; but, I had no luck repairing them. Way too many large surface mounted IC's and other SMT parts for my liking.
I can't speak for LCD TVs, but I've had good luck with LCD monitors that have failed. Most of the faults are in either the solder joints on the backlight inverter - or it (the inverter) just pops its fuse. Have recently resurrected three at work that just needed a fuse and they're still chugging along. I figure they get one free fuse replacement; any more than that and I'll have to start looking for problems.

-Jim
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