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    Panasonic PF50G20S blinking 13 times

    Hello there,

    Google led me again to badcaps when trying to troubleshoot a dying Plasma that is sitting at my uncle's roughly 550 km from where I am. It's an old G20 from 2010 or so, that isn't being actively used so you can consider the panel "not too sollicitated".

    Symptoms: TV starts, works for 5-10 minutes, then screen turns black and safety kicks in and spits a 13-blink code with the red LED. Once this code kicks in, the TV will not display any image anymore. Unplug it for a few minutes, plug it again, it'll work then fail a few minutes later.

    I pulled a service manual but the blinking chart (p. 18) only goes up do 12. Very useful... Google led me here : https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58593 basically pointing towards a failing A-board and suggest for professional intervention. I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that it's for now a non-permanent failure and would have thought about failing PSU (not able to maintain proper load) rather than an IC.

    Any suggestion to troubleshoot more thoroughly ? I don't have my hands on the TV yet and can't ask my uncle to disassemble it.

    Thanks and cheers
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    Re: Panasonic PF50G20S blinking 13 times

    Can you take the back off the TV and upload pictures of the circuit boards?
    Some common problems on this type of TV include bad capacitors and loose grounding screws.

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      Re: Panasonic PF50G20S blinking 13 times

      I suspect a failing BGA under the processor, it works until it gets hot and then not.
      One or more of the solder balls is cracked.

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        Re: Panasonic PF50G20S blinking 13 times

        Thanks for the suggestions! I unfortunately won't be at his place for the next month or so but I also had the feeling that it could be something warming up too much, then a safety kicking in (hence having to unplug for a while for things to start working again).

        Baking the A board was on the list of possible ideas (reballing an IC is probably above my competences even if I'm very good with a soldering iron). Possibly also, re-ironing most of the solder joints around it.

        More generally speaking, is there any systematic way to troubleshoot that (undocumented) 13 blinks ?

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