Just fixed my first plasma TV.

[radiotvnut]

Some guy brought me a 42" 5 year old Hitachi plasma TV that was given to him by his father-in-law with the complaint of a blown speaker and a ripped off RF connector. Once I removed the 10,000 screws holding it together, I removed the analog tuner module. Once I removed the shielding from the module, I was able to slide the RF connector back on to the edge of the PC board and resolder it. Once I put the shielding back on, I soldered the connector on to the shield to give it a little extra security. Every time I replace the RF connector on a TV, I always solder it in place.

Only one speaker was blown; but, I replaced both of them so the sound would be equal. What I used was slightly different than the originals.

Stuck it all back together and the owner was happy.

Maybe my luck will start changing on these flat panel TV's as I've had several come my way; but, I was unable to fix any of them. My friend that has a shop says he fixes many LCD sets by changing bad caps; but, I wasn't that lucky on the ones that I got. Most of the ones that I got had already been written off by other shops, anyway. I'd like to find some broken FP sets to play with; but, most people want $100+ even for the broken ones and I'm not willing to gamble that much money on something to play with. Years ago, when I was buying broken CRT sets to play with, I never gave over $10 for a broken TV. As far as I'm concerned, that same rule still applies to the FP sets.

As much as I don't like the new crap; maybe I can still fix enough of it to finance my vintage electronics habit.