Re: Panasonic sc tnpa5081 rebuild
Hi, guys. New here. Posting from Brazil, so forgive my english.
Let me summarise the best I can my drama:
I have a Pana P50V20B for about 5 years. Best TV and image I ever had. Some random day, when leaving the house, turned it off with the remote and bang! The 4 blinks of dead.
Took the set to the Pana's service. The first one gave me a estimative around US$ 320,00 to change the power source (P board). If that wasn't the problem, they would charge more to the new componet. Took straight to another service. After two days thay called and said the TV was beyond repair.
Took the set home and what a surprise when now the set don't even blink. Completely dead.
I've found the service manual on the internet and decided to fix it my self with my intermediate electronics knowledge.
Following the service manual found some fuses and other stuff dead on the P board. This was the state I've found the P board:



Various dead, poorly or completely unsoldered components. My bad I took it straight from one service to another so I cannot pinpoint wich one did it.
As I wasn't not confortable messing with the PS (one mistake could burn the rest), decided to order a used working one for about US$ 60,00.
Beside this "burnt" resistor I plan to swap with the original board (one single item I'm fine with), the TV got back to the 4 blinks (first thought of a real PSU fault but not. I'll get there later):

After reading A LOT of foruns, this whole topic and others here, I've isolated the problem at the SC board. After removing it, no surprises. Again, dead components and poor or no soldering:



Even my assistant agreed they did a sh*tty job:

Beyond the visibly messed components I've found other dead short diodes and so on.
Again, I'm not confortable messing with this kind of detail. So I've ordered a supposedly brand new board from china (US$ 115,00). It will take about two months to arrive, but got a few questions:
1 - I've checked the SU and SD boards according to this (and other similar) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVLWpcIxJQ
I've found no shorts on both boards. Using the meter in diode mode, it's an open circuit in one direction and about 750 ohms in another. As they can blow the new SC board, is there anything else I gotta check before connecting it all back?
2 - What kind of tests can I do on the new SC board when it finally arrives so I can assure it's fine before starting the TV?
That's all. Forgive if it's a long post, but a long history too (lot other things i've suppressed).
Thanks in advance
Hi, guys. New here. Posting from Brazil, so forgive my english.
Let me summarise the best I can my drama:
I have a Pana P50V20B for about 5 years. Best TV and image I ever had. Some random day, when leaving the house, turned it off with the remote and bang! The 4 blinks of dead.
Took the set to the Pana's service. The first one gave me a estimative around US$ 320,00 to change the power source (P board). If that wasn't the problem, they would charge more to the new componet. Took straight to another service. After two days thay called and said the TV was beyond repair.
Took the set home and what a surprise when now the set don't even blink. Completely dead.
I've found the service manual on the internet and decided to fix it my self with my intermediate electronics knowledge.
Following the service manual found some fuses and other stuff dead on the P board. This was the state I've found the P board:



Various dead, poorly or completely unsoldered components. My bad I took it straight from one service to another so I cannot pinpoint wich one did it.
As I wasn't not confortable messing with the PS (one mistake could burn the rest), decided to order a used working one for about US$ 60,00.
Beside this "burnt" resistor I plan to swap with the original board (one single item I'm fine with), the TV got back to the 4 blinks (first thought of a real PSU fault but not. I'll get there later):

After reading A LOT of foruns, this whole topic and others here, I've isolated the problem at the SC board. After removing it, no surprises. Again, dead components and poor or no soldering:



Even my assistant agreed they did a sh*tty job:

Beyond the visibly messed components I've found other dead short diodes and so on.
Again, I'm not confortable messing with this kind of detail. So I've ordered a supposedly brand new board from china (US$ 115,00). It will take about two months to arrive, but got a few questions:
1 - I've checked the SU and SD boards according to this (and other similar) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVLWpcIxJQ
I've found no shorts on both boards. Using the meter in diode mode, it's an open circuit in one direction and about 750 ohms in another. As they can blow the new SC board, is there anything else I gotta check before connecting it all back?
2 - What kind of tests can I do on the new SC board when it finally arrives so I can assure it's fine before starting the TV?
That's all. Forgive if it's a long post, but a long history too (lot other things i've suppressed).
Thanks in advance
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