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[avkdm]

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Just trying to get some info on TV

And I still cant start a new thread which is frustrating!

[tech247]

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Hey guys, I stumbled across this site and looked very informative. I hope to to get some answers here. Maybe one day, I'll even contribute.

[Kevon1]

Hello cool people.....😜

It's Kevon by the way. Full disclosure......I am a convicted murderer and did 14 years in State Penitentiary for my crimes.......Ok none of that is true. I will start over. I am currently a laid off blue collar laborer....hence why I am posting at 4:40 AM and love tech anything ..... I am a Home Theater enthusiast and only believe in buying quality....... If I can't afford what I want, I never settle and will wait until it's attainable. My motto is "If it's broke.....YOU fix it" I emphasize you because I never pay someone to do something I can do myself . I have no degree ,no trade certs no highschool diploma and attained my GED. Thank God my wife is an earner. I am 40 years old and have never taken a vehicle to a mechanic......never. I'm a mechanic, plumber, carpenter, painter, landscaper appliance repairman , IT specialist & not a dentist .....I tried & failed miserably, pretty gory . Hard worker, never quit attitude. Always on time/never late and when it comes to myself or a project I have a very hard time with not letting perfection get in the way of good enough. Be your best for you and never do anything half way.......all in or nothing. I'm sure I will learn plenty here .......look very much forward to reading more ways to increase my skill sets as well as just being more educated on certain things I find myself ignorant in .......Always willing to help in anyway as there really is nothing I can't fix ....accept that wisdom tooth I tried extracting like Tom Hanks in Castaway.......Kevon

[User013597]

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Hello there!

I got a problem with my old notebook and i hope you can help me.

Have a nice day.

[Stal8080]

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Hello All

I'm Brian from Erie, PA. My beloved Panny Plasma P55GT31 decided to give me the "blinks of death" now I've come here to help it find its way back to the beautiful, color-rich picture it once was.

[Dodgexander]

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Dodge, from the UK here. I've just registered to ask a question about my faulty TV. I've recently bought some equipment to hopefully learn more about repairing circuit boards myself. I'll be grateful for any help!

Thanks for having me!

[compguy57]

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Just want to say Hi and thanks for letting me join. I love to repair electronics of all kinds, right now though I am concentrating on Laptops and iPads.

[tibor]

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this page is awesome. it really helped me sooo many times. thank you

[NeedCoffeeNow!]

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Hello everyone. I'm Michael. Currently in Germany. Don't know anything really about component level repair, but that's one of the reason's I'm here....to learn.

I am more on the web design side of things and less on hardware repair side of things.

Looking forward to some good discussions!

[Uazzamerican]

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Hi all,
I am a new member of this forum.
I can't say I am an electronic expert, I even can't say the difference between a mosfet and a capacitor... I suck, definitely.
That's why I am here, to learn and to get some help if possible.
I collect a lot of retro "fancy" hardware, Asrock motherboard fot the most part, like Conroe motherboards with AGP support.
And I like strange combinations, such as MVP3 and GeforceFX 5950 cards or 440BX with 6800 Ultra...
So it's obvious that in the long (or short) run, those cards could explode

Right now I have some issue with a Maxims IV Extreme-Z, pretty regular and boring for my standards...

thank you and see you soon on my thread.

[V12A]

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Hi everyone,

I'm Martin from Vienna, the capital of Austria and my father has opened up a small repair store where I might help him a little in the evening or if I have a day off from my professional work as a Journalist.

Best regards,
Martin

[PETERYAM]

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hi everyone

i'm pete, been into the pc repair game for a long time also tthe console modding scene, dont bother with that no more, now i'm into mainly tv repair, and had a 17PW80 V2 witch was completely dead, after searching the net came across badcaps and just by reading the 1st post managed to repair it (dead diode) so big thanks and special thanks to tom66, his comments were invaluable even though they were for someone else.
anyway, i look forward to learning more and more about component level repairs, and hope to contribute were i can.
cheers
pete.

[MasterMind789]

Introduction - Sweet & Simple...

Hi,

I'm originally from Southern California

ELECTRONICS:
Got my Electronics Engineering Degree at ITT Technical Institute, Carson CA - 1990. As graduation - Finals project for Lab I built a Computerized Drink Mixer from scratch. Made my own ISA interface card interface to the mixer, wrote software that controlled it, and consequently shortly after graduation I was hired at ITT Tech as an Electronics Instructor - which I ended up teaching 8 years professionally.

COMPUTERS:
Prior to my formal electronics education I had been a computer junkee since age 13, the pre-Windows DOS days and even pre-Intel days. I've done everything from build & repair to service & support, networking, dabbled in programming; BASIC, light Assembly, XBase, FoxPro, Visual Basic and it's been a while but some time back I got my Microsoft MCSD as Certified Trainer.


LIFE:
I hate working on computers anymore, don't spend any more time than I have to of life staring at any screen - computer, television or otherwise. I like the outdoors, camping and the lake.

I found myself here at BadCaps cuz I'm trying to troubleshoot & fix this damn Panasonic 50" television. This place is a knowledge base, so I joined - this knowledge exchange among tech / junkie / professionals or whatever you want to call them is impressive & extensive.


MasterMind

[falconeray]

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Hi, I'm here looking for advice on repairing a tv. Found you guys because a similar model popped up when I was searching for a solution, but apparently the problem I am having is somewhat different than the one I found, so I am hoping to get some good advice!

[motormat]

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Hey everyone new here obviously lol. Been messing with electronics and pc's for years now just as a side hobby never got to technical 27 from Washington.

[TECH:ONE]

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Greetings!

I'm a musical instrument and electronics service technician for over 30 years. Found this website after searching the web for some information on repairing a motherboard which had failed.

Great resource here, and a community I can relate to.

Cheers-
Marc

[Lisalisa101]

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Hi everyone I'm new to your group. I love tinkering with stuff. There's not a better feeling than seeing something broken come back to live. I look forward to spending time with the group.

Thanks

Brian

[SonyinNC]

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Hello, I am in my late 50’s and have been working with electronics/computers/simulators for many years. After high school I went to a 2-year community college in Wilmington NC and took their electronics technology curriculum. Graduated with an Associate’s degree in electronics in 1977. Started working in Marine Electronics installing/repairing all types of marine electronics on small boats, commercial boats, yachts and large ships. Also worked with a Land Mobile/RCC/Pager company, installing/repairing communication radios, RCC Mobile Telephones (before cell phones), repeaters, paging radios, antenna towers, antenna feed lines and many other communication gear. I also worked with car stereos and home high-end stereo equipment.
All of the jobs above were in the private industry. In 1983 I was hired at MCAS Cherry Point as a civil service employee and worked in an electronics calibration lab at the Navy/Marine Fleet Readiness Center – FRC East. I repaired and calibrated many types of electronic test equipment that was used by the Navy & Marines all over the globe.
In 1985 I was transferred to work on a AV-8A flight similar. I worked on old mainframes where we actually had to go to the front panel of a main frame and toggle in the instructions and data (boot-strap) to “boot” to a RAID drive that was half the size of a pickup truck. After that the new AV-8B flight simulators were delivered, with them came newer technologies. Gould/Encore 32/87 Mainframes, DEC Mainframes, 300MB CDC Disk drives, 200MB DEC Memorex Disk Drives, 9-track Tape Drives, GE Telestra Light Valve Projectors and a long list of computer peripherals, avionics and electronics gear that is too numerous to list here. Later, up-grades were incorporated, replacing the mainframes with newer technologies like PCs and state of the art computers and electronics. Networked computers have now replaced what the mainframes did in the past and at a lower cost. I have also worked with AV-8B Maintenance Trainers, KC-130J Simulators, EA-6B Flight Simulators and a C-9B Flight Simulator.
I now work in a management position and I do miss the hands on work that I did for many years. I oversee large contracts now and make sure the contractors are maintaining and supporting the simulators properly. I now work on electronics and computers as a hobby. I have always enjoyed fixing things and it is hard for me to pay someone else to fix something when I can fix it myself. I will at least take a shot at it. It’s the same with boats and cars, I like working on them too.
Back in the day disk drives were the size of washing machines and the platter disks were the size of a trash can lids. The individual 18” disk platters were stacked 19 high. The platter disks were installed in the disk drive and spun up to 3,600 rpm. Then the 18ea read heads would move over and between the platters where the heads would “fly” just above the platter surface. These heads had to be individually aligned so they would read & write data in the proper position on the disc platter. A special servo head was used as the reference. These drives were always a challenge to align properly. All that it would only take a same particle of dust to cause the heads to crash into the platters. This head crash could be pretty violent. I will always remember the sound that a head crash in a disk drive would make and the residual smell would linger for a while. Next was the cleanup, head replacements and the alignments. All of this would take a day or two to complete.
One day I was in a Best Buy store to buy a “Hard Drive” for my computer. While looking at the “Hard Drives” and with one in my hand, a very young guy asked if he could help me, I said yes. I told him I was looking for a “Disk Drive” for my computer. The kid looked at me like I knew nothing about computers and stepped over to another shelf and picked out a “DVD/CD-ROM” Drive and said here is a “Disk Drive”. I looked at the kid, still wet behind the ears, who must have been just out of high school, and told him; no that’s a “CD-ROM” Drive, what I have in my hand is a “Disk Drive”. You may call it a “Hard Drive” if you want. Just to let you know, I have been working with “Disk Drives” for over 30 years, well before you were born and they were the size of your mother’s washing machine. I grabbed the “Disk Drive” that I needed, paid for it and left the store.
Now to what has brought me to this blog. I have a Sony KDL-46NX800 TV, it is about 5 or 6 years old and is intermittent. At times it will display solid vertical bars & lines in the display with no video content. The sound plays over the speakers and there is no video content displayed, except for the solid vertical bars. You can also select other video sources with no change. I can turn the TV off for a few hours and return, sometimes the TV will work and sometime it will not. As soon as I start to look into fixing the problem, it starts working again. When I do have a solid failure, I am hoping to troubleshoot this problem and fix it. Using this blog I was able to down load a service manual, this will help me out when I do work on this TV. I do not have much experience working on flat screen TVs. I think I can figure it out without much problem, when I need to I will reach out to all of you in the blog for some assistance. I will appreciate that.
Thanks, Tom

[jriedel]

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Hi. I have to do this to post or have any priveldges apparently so... Here I am. Lol. Owner of a small electronics repair shop in Toledo, OH. Fix many TVs and was originally here getting information about a plasma I'm working on. If anybody reads this can you tell me a good admin I can pm to ask to get an IP ban removed. Originally tried to look at a picture by logging in with an account on bugmenot, which got the IP banned indefinitely apparently. Seems a little harsh being someone just trying to view a picture who uses bugnenot lol.

[BowieLives]

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Hello! To console my soul at Bowie's Great Sojourn to Heaven, but also joy at seeing him again, I replaced the infamous 2 Bad Caps in my Emu 1820m and LEARNED A LOT. Before I mention my BIG PROBLEM: I learned a 35w soldering iron sucks. But a Weller 100/140 works great! Reading a few articles on soldering HELPS! And practicing on some old pcb card HELPS. Tinning your tip HELPS. Having a wet washcloth on a brick or sponge is essential. A tiny safety pin to push out the old solder helps. Large diameter solder works against you on small jobs. A powerful soldering gun makes things happen fast, vs forever or not at all.

The Emu 1820m was working before the cap replacement. Now it does not show ANY power signs at all. Could my caps be the wrong kind, bad or is it my crappy ugly soldering?

I replaced the exact two caps everyone else does with success. As seen in the picture here:
http://productionforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13240

They WERE BULGING, but still working, with static. The bad caps I pulled were G-Luxon, 10Vdc 680uF, 105c, LZ. Here's what I installed in their place:

1000UF 1000mfd 25V Electrolytic Capacitor 105 degrees
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271408068601...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Shouldn't they work in theory? I followed ALL the advice. Everyone says it's okay to up the UF a little and volts a little, but not over 25v.

Before I yank and jiggle and pray...any advice is GREATLY appreciated! Thank you very much!