Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
My name is Eric and I found my way here googling around trying to find out what's wrong with my LG plasma TV (which is only 3 years old). I am engineer by trade, but not really much of a hobbyist. I have done some soldering but I'm not very good at it.
I do have some experience repairing TVs. Back in the CRT era, I had this NEC 26" that used to get a great picture via rabbit ears. But every so often, the picture would "snow up", as if the tuner was gradually drifting off. One of the first few times it happened, I must have released the "lock" on the recliner I was sitting in to get up, which then caused the recliner to kerthunk closed... instantly restoring the picture on the TV. In this way I was able to determine that percussive maintenance was called for. Unfortunately, this turned out to be habit forming. The TV needed to bit hit harder and harder, and with increasing frequency, eventually resulting in components inside tinkling their way somewhere into the bottom of the chassis.
Of course that poor battered television is long gone, and now I have moved on to a bigger and better TV that gives me no reason to think that hitting it is going to improve anything. Needless to say, I am confident that some of the folks here can provide vastly superior troubleshooting advice.
My name is Eric and I found my way here googling around trying to find out what's wrong with my LG plasma TV (which is only 3 years old). I am engineer by trade, but not really much of a hobbyist. I have done some soldering but I'm not very good at it.
I do have some experience repairing TVs. Back in the CRT era, I had this NEC 26" that used to get a great picture via rabbit ears. But every so often, the picture would "snow up", as if the tuner was gradually drifting off. One of the first few times it happened, I must have released the "lock" on the recliner I was sitting in to get up, which then caused the recliner to kerthunk closed... instantly restoring the picture on the TV. In this way I was able to determine that percussive maintenance was called for. Unfortunately, this turned out to be habit forming. The TV needed to bit hit harder and harder, and with increasing frequency, eventually resulting in components inside tinkling their way somewhere into the bottom of the chassis.
Of course that poor battered television is long gone, and now I have moved on to a bigger and better TV that gives me no reason to think that hitting it is going to improve anything. Needless to say, I am confident that some of the folks here can provide vastly superior troubleshooting advice.
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