How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

[tom66]

I was walking to the shops today and nabbed this "POLAROID" 32" LCD TV (made by Vestel.) Obviously the screen was completely wrecked so I only wanted it for parts.

Upon getting it home I seriously wondered how they had managed to do this damage because not only was the screen bust but they had warped the main board and made several cracks in the power supply. The other parts survived.

Also I've had a lot of experience with Vestel TVs. Very dodgy cost saving measures. For the 24V, 7.5A output, they use 5x3A diodes in parallel. Which is a very, very bad idea... Also, there's no PFC capacitor, the main output capacitors are used for the power factor correction, which means they have about 2.5Ap-p of ripple through each.

[selldoor]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Some badcaps member failed to get it fixed and took it out on the tv - Senioki? had a bad day - and run over it in his bus (Just joking ) do you hear from him - not seen any posts for some time.


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Anyway I thought that was what YOU would often like to do to Vestel boards

[tom66]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Some badcaps member failed to get it fixed and took it out on the tv - Senioki? had a bad day - and run over it in his bus (Just joking ) do you hear from him - not seen any posts for some time.


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Anyway I thought that was what YOU would often like to do to Vestel boards

Hah yes I am good friends with him and we fix TVs together when we get time.

Yes I have taken to a Vestel power board with a hammer (after replacing just about everything on it.) It made me feel much better. However, I would never smash a good working screen! Even if it is a Vestel inside!

[vinceroger69]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

asdas are selling these polaroid 32in sets and also larger seem to sell them well not seen many faulty ones around (well done for picking it up for bits thats what i do just running out of room lol) hope you havent got much snow up your direction tom and selldor quite bad here in warwickshire.

[selldoor]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Well - it had a stuck pixel and someone suggested tapping the screen. It didnt go away so I tapped a bit harder !!!!!

[tom66]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Plenty of snow where I am.

I notice it says "Produced for Asda Stores Ltd" so I guess Asda bought the Polaroid name or sticking on tellies.

[vinceroger69]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

probably a wii remote seems quite common never done it myself though. tom can you get dvd circuits? just posted a thread in general electonics.

[tom66]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Heh, a little more than a Wii remote went into this thing!

[Clucas]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Some people just want to watch the world burn lol. I think I can just about make out a boot print from when somebody's team lost.

[cliff_hootarski]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

A metric F**K ton of something!

[tieny]

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Or it could of been thrown off a ledge lol, I have seen one video where someone just smashed a vizio tv that stopped turning on with a construction excavator and then just buried it :p

[ben7]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

Probably got mad at it and threw it out their window :P

Or a kiddie pushed it over :S

Ever seen the 'Angry Grandpa' show on Youtube? I find it funny, but it is staged. There is a few electronics smashing things in there xD I am guessing they are electronics they picked up off the curb :P

[momaka]

Re: How do people do this to electronics? Seriously?

A friend of mine gave me some parts/boards from a few Dell computers - more precisely a GX260 (?) motherboard, a Dell MMS 5650 mainboard (5.1 speaker system), 2 HiPro power supplies, and a bunch of other peripheral Dell stuff. He said he found that computer stuff thrown away and decided to take them apart.

Not sure what he did or how he "took them apart", but the entire port area of the GX260 motherboard was broken off and gone! The MMS 5650 mainboard also had a huge chunk of PCB missing out of it. I guess he must have only used a hammer and cutters.

Luckily, he took out the subwoofer speaker from that MMS 5650 without damaging it. Also, the 3 amplifier ICs on the MMS 5650 mainboard are all fine as well. So I may build me a decent sound system sometimes in the future. The HiPro PSUs have only cut fan and voltage selector wires. I already put one of them in a "new" case (since he didn't have the cases).