Whats The Most Dangerous 'repair'/thing you've found in a TV set?

[Alastair E]

I think mine was found on Friday last, and have some pictures at work,--which I'll get and post tomorrow.

An old LG Plasma, a 42 PDPV7 that I scrapped due to broken screen.

On removal of rear-cover I found that half of the PSU,--the area containing the PFC, rectifiers, main smoothing-blocks and the primary side of the supply had been packed very tightly with Cotton-Wool!

The mains input-fuse has fuse-wire wrapped around it and was also covered in this cotton-wool packing. The whole lot then was covered in a plastic sheet taped firmly in place all around.
--The stuff was even tucked in around the whole board under the edges.....

The PSU had finally quit due to overheating causing the board to distort to the point it touched the chassis causing a short--amazingly the mains-fuse had not failed, and I suspect a series-resistor had saved the day preventing a fire if the mains-fuse had gone!

The area of the switching-regulators and PFC fets of the board has carbonised and black, this poor thing must have been running like this for some time....

Whoever did this so-called repair--potch-up--requires a severe head slapping for this effort in a fire waiting to happen!

I thought I had seen most things--Until life throws another weird thing like this at me!

[momaka]

Re: Whats The Most Dangerous 'repair'/thing you've found in a TV set?

Can't wait to see the pictures! Sounds almost too horrible to be true.
Then again, people can do stupid things .

[Dang]

Re: Whats The Most Dangerous 'repair'/thing you've found in a TV set?

Sounds too stupid so as not to of been done on purpose, why would you otherwise? Did the previous owner have a so called friendly neighbour have a look at it and try and fix it???? that cotton would of acted as an accelerant in the event of a sparking component so very lucky it didn't but of course I'm only guessing, just why would you do that, why?

[Ltank]

Re: Whats The Most Dangerous 'repair'/thing you've found in a TV set?

After a person goes through that much effort to destroy the set and possibly burn his house down why not just Bust the Screen too! He must have been mad at the set!

[Alastair E]

Re: Whats The Most Dangerous 'repair'/thing you've found in a TV set?

The ONLY reason I can see why this had been done--was maybe a buzz or whine from the PSU--prob due to some other fault.

It is clear the set had been running for quite some time with the wadding in place--even the tape around it had all sorta dried up and gone crispy!

Whoever did this--Was EXTREMELY lucky not to have had a house fire!

I'll have to get the pictures of this abortion next week--They are on a colleague's camera--who is off till Monday....