My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

[truep]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

That's usually a problem with the inverter or CCFL. See al the posts for "2 seconds to black".

[jose6326]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

tom is this what you mean by a bad plasma panel with a line in it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-zcHekLTk

[tom66]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

That is fairly rare, but is a panel issue. More common is this (#1 and #2 attached.)

Notice there is a pixel line in the middle of the bars. This is definitely a bad panel. If the bar is completely black, then there is a chance it is just C board or loose connector. Black bar with line is more common on Panasonic; Samsung and LG tend to get single stuck lines instead.

In #3, you can see an image in the faulty bar, but the bar is pink coloured. This is 99.5% a loose connector or C board issue. Panel failure causing this is very rare.

[jose6326]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

i understand now

i had the same issue with a samsung as the pic #3 you posted
it was just a loose connector and fixed the issue

i guess i wont buy the samsung in the video i posted
the guy wanted $200 for it, no way i was going to pay that much anyways

thanks tom just as always you are a great help

[tom66]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

I think $200 is more like "I want a cheap TV for basement/bedroom and can live with the line" not "it's for repair"?

[Madman Muntz]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

I know this is an very old thread but I did find it useful. I had to replace a non working TV with a new one for a lady down the street. I got down there and was removing the old one, dam thing was heavy.

When I was done she asked me if I wanted the old one. I figured I would part it out. After a few days just sitting there outside on a cart, I decided to take a look at it. Its a 58" Panasonic Viera Plasma TV th-58pz700 with a 6 blink code. The TV looks brand new for free I cant beat it, if I can repair it for under 58 bucks, (58x1.00=58.00)

I should have charged her for removing, it very heavy

[neilc6]

Re: My guide to buying Non-Working LCD & Plasma TV's

Plasmas and LCDs have very low resale value and are around the 10 year age mark. I wont touch any plasmas at all or LCD bigger than 46 inches because of the weight. If I can get a 40 or 46 inch LCD for free and can use up some of my capacitor inventory, I can resell for $60 or $80. If it has a bad board , then it"s break even. If it has bad lamps, its not worth repairing.