Has anybody tried to use IR night vision goggles or other thermal imaging device to find a shorted line in a ribbon cable going from a panel driver board into the panel? I would think the shorted line would get hotter than the other lines and might just show up on a thermal imaging device. Just wondering if anyone has tried this and if so did it work?

Hi every one. I just want to share the successful repair of my shorted Panasonic TNPA4782AB SC board.

I don't usually do it but so many parts were shorted that I decided to buy the ShopJimmy repair kit instead of sourcing each components individually. Here is the list of components the kit contained, with a remark indicating if I needed that part or not :

D608, good
D618 RF101L4S, good (See warning 1 below)
D619 RF101L4S, good (See warning 1 below)
D865 RF101L4S, shorted (See warning 1 below)

IC464 Inverter HA MC74HC1G14, shorted...

I been trying to trace this via for a few hours now, Could someone tell me what Chip gets Ground to power up the console? Or maybe about where it should go? This is from a EDM-033 but i would imagine most are the same....

Hi good day to all hope someone can give me some advice whats happening to this board.

Ive check the output voltage line of +5valw and +3valw all shorted I thought I was having a SIO shorted to.
I try to remove the SIO chip But still shorted I tried to check all CAPS of the pu401 and PU402 all ok

SHORTED TO GROUND

PL402 AND PL401 , i tried also to remove the 2 coils and test the PJ402 and PJ406 im having short at those sections,

I hope someone can guide me if anyone, Thank You in advance...

Hi to all,
the owner of this machine gave it to me after having opened it to take off the dust from the inside, telling me that after that it didn't start anymore.
I found that one of the DrMOS (AOZ5016QI) on the CPUCORE was shorted between VIN and VSWH, and that one of the two n-mos connected to the power jack was shorted aswell.
I unsoldered the two shorted components and verified that there were no other short circuits, then decided to power the mainboard, firstly with the lab power supply, then with its original HP 200w charger, but the behaviour is the same, the board starts...