storm power surge

[freelancenoob]

I am picking up 2 vizio flatscreens from a friend's house tomorrow. Wants me to see if I can repair them. Said during a storm the power surged like 6 times in a row. It blew out a few light bulbs in the house and now both flat screens will not turn on. No response from the tv when hitting the power button.

What is the first thing you would check upon picking them up? I'm hoping its just a fuse on the power supply board.

[tw2005]

Re: storm power surge

I am picking up 2 vizio flatscreens from a friend's house tomorrow. Wants me to see if I can repair them. Said during a storm the power surged like 6 times in a row. It blew out a few light bulbs in the house and now both flat screens will not turn on. No response from the tv when hitting the power button.

What is the first thing you would check upon picking them up? I'm hoping its just a fuse on the power supply board.

Not a bad place to start especially if there's no standby.

If I had a storm kick ass like that I'd be ripping cords out left right and centre.

[freelancenoob]

Re: storm power surge

Not a bad place to start especially if there's no standby.

If I had a storm kick ass like that I'd be ripping cords out left right and centre.

he had a surge protector trip and he reset it like a dummy. Told him surge protectors are only good for one spike, after that its just a glorified outlet multiplier lol

I think my plan is to check fuse, bridge rectifier, then move onto diodes.

[budm]

Re: storm power surge

Check around the HDMI input circuits too.

[tw2005]

Re: storm power surge

Check around the HDMI input circuits too.

I was going to mention that, did not want to totally ruin someone's day

I still have the dud HDMi set top box and dormant HDMI1 on my panny from lightning a few years ago.

[budm]

Re: storm power surge

No surge protector strip will protect the surge coming through HDMI port from the cable box.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: storm power surge

If I had a storm kick ass like that I'd be ripping cords out left right and centre.

10 years ago, on August 25, 2007, Springfield, Vermont, (USA) we had a T-storm that looked and sounded like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqWfNuXszo

It was one of those true PC killers and TV killers!

[freelancenoob]

Re: storm power surge

No surge protector strip will protect the surge coming through HDMI port from the cable box.

long time ago we had a surge protector that had cable feed into it along with phone lines.

Did a google search and there are surge protectors for hdmi ports.

[heavymachines]

Re: storm power surge

https://sewelldirect.com/bolt-hdmi-i...ower-surge-esa found this, however most search results were false advertisement, you click on them and it would show hdmi splitter or hdmi device that has nothing to do with surge suppression, that apc does not have hdmi suppression just phone and coax and ordinary plugs cat 5 etc.

[freelancenoob]

Re: storm power surge

https://sewelldirect.com/bolt-hdmi-i...ower-surge-esa found this, however most search results were false advertisement, you click on them and it would show hdmi splitter or hdmi device that has nothing to do with surge suppression, that apc does not have hdmi suppression just phone and coax and ordinary plugs cat 5 etc.

Correct. I posted that to show what we used years ago. That was before hdmi came out.

[budm]

Re: storm power surge

That is an in-line HDMI surge protector, never seen one on the outlet strip yet. That one is up to 1080P. You are going to need one for each HDMI.
Best protection is to disconnect the devices during the thunder storm and just read the book or do something else till the storm is over.