Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please help

[sergio2013]

Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, anyone know what could be the cause? please help. I have included an image of the issue.

[capkid]

Re: Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please h

I'd say you have a faulty panel - can't be fixed economically.

[reconvision]

Re: Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please h

Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, anyone know what could be the cause? please help. I have included an image of the issue.

It's not necessarily a faulty panel. I have fixed many TVs with the same problem - I think they were all LCDs but I can see how the same principle would apply to plasmas.

I'm not really familiar with your model (in truth I kind of specialise in LCDs so if anything I say sounds stupid or inapplicable I do apologise).

The LCD TVs I repaired that had single coloured vertical lines, it was simply a case of cleaning the connectors on the ribbon cables that attached the T-con board (plasma equivalent would be logic board) to the screen driver board. I pulled those ribbon cables out, used a rubber (that's an eraser not a condom) to scrub the metal contacts on each end then reseated them and - hey presto!

Hope that helps.

[capkid]

Re: Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please h

Plasmas are not equivalent to LCDs when it comes to screen issues, but cleaning contacts wouldn't hurt. I doubt it will make a difference, though.

[sergio2013]

Re: Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please h

Any other ideas?

[tom66]

Re: Samsung PN50C540 Plasma Red thin line from top to bottom of the display, please h

You have a C series Samsung. Also happens to B and D series. Very common, not repairable. The panel is bad.
Basically on any type of display a single or few pixel wide line is a bad panel. Repeating patterns are rarely bad panels.