Salvaging Parts

[Allan Woods]

I have a number of broken flat screen plasma and LED's coming to my place. What boards, besides the power board are worth salvaging for re-sale?

[Ltank]

Re: Salvaging Parts

Basicly all the boards. Power Supplies, Main Boards, T-Cons, Control Boards, Inverters,
Y-Sus, Z-Sus. Remote Modules dont fail often. The small Flat leads that jumper between the board are difficult to locate. Recently the addition of the LED backlighting the LED strips may be an option but requires disassembly of the screen to access them. Normally the backlight is considered as part of the screen. When screens are broken or the backlighting fails the TV is toast.. You can break a screen the LEDs are normally still good.

[tw2005]

Re: Salvaging Parts

The bigger Q is how will you know what is good or bad and how will you handle returns?

What do you do when they test the board to find it faulty?

With plasmas, the buffers and drive boards can be damaged if the panel is on when it's cracked.

[ecking767]

Re: Salvaging Parts

The bigger Q is how will you know what is good or bad and how will you handle returns?

What do you do when they test the board to find it faulty?

With plasmas, the buffers and drive boards can be damaged if the panel is on when it's cracked.

I totally agree, T-CON boards on a crack LCD screen sometime can't be confirm working on a badly smash or crack LCD screen, that had no picture. main board you can try to get sound if you have no picture on a cracked screen, power supply & inverter board should be no problem if the TV power on and stay on.