I have a 18 month old Panasonic TC-P55ST30 TV that went bad last week. The power led is solid red when turned on and nothing happens. If I hold the power button on for a few seconds, then it goes into a pattern of 14 blinks. I called the TV repair guy and he diagnosed it as an issue with the SC board (Y Sustain Board) and he said he needs to replace that and will cost $400. I have a couple of questions.
1) Do we need to replace the Y buffer boards along with the SC board? I see that mentioned in a couple of the online stores and youtube videos.
2) When I called panasonic, they said since it is out of the 12 month warranty, they will not pay for the repair. Does anybody have any success escalating this issue with them and is it worth it? If I can get Panasonic to pay for it, I would rather let the TV repair guy do it and be sure its done right.
3) If I end up doing it myself, is there a reliable place where I can buy the boards from? There seems to be quite a differential in price depending on which online store/ebay you get it from. All of them claim that the boards are from broken/returned tv's and was wondering how to verify that the boards would work and not cause any further harm.
I would appreciate any insight into this as I have never done TV repair before personally but am pretty comfortable with doing it myself at this point.
Thanks.
1) Do we need to replace the Y buffer boards along with the SC board? I see that mentioned in a couple of the online stores and youtube videos.
2) When I called panasonic, they said since it is out of the 12 month warranty, they will not pay for the repair. Does anybody have any success escalating this issue with them and is it worth it? If I can get Panasonic to pay for it, I would rather let the TV repair guy do it and be sure its done right.
3) If I end up doing it myself, is there a reliable place where I can buy the boards from? There seems to be quite a differential in price depending on which online store/ebay you get it from. All of them claim that the boards are from broken/returned tv's and was wondering how to verify that the boards would work and not cause any further harm.
I would appreciate any insight into this as I have never done TV repair before personally but am pretty comfortable with doing it myself at this point.
Thanks.
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