Opinion on 2 tv's

[dcapper]

Thanks to everyone on this forum, I have successfully repaired about a dozen tv's.

I recently repaired a Philips PDP 42X3 that only had one bad cap.
I also repaired a Panasonic TC-P42X2 that I had to replace every board but the buffer boards and the P board.

I am going to keep one for my cottage.

I'm into the Philips about $50.00 and about $300 into the Panasonic.

Both are 720p. Which one would you people keep?

[tom66]

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Definitely the Panasonic... why did you replace every board?

[dcapper]

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I think it was a graveyard tv, where they put dead boards in. I bought the SN and SS from Shopjimmy. and the mainboard from eBay. Would I be safe to keep it? I'm just worried since I replaced so many boards. It is a 600Hz tv unlike the Philips.

[tw2005]

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I think it was a graveyard tv, where they put dead boards in. I bought the SN and SS from Shopjimmy. and the mainboard from eBay. Would I be safe to keep it? I'm just worried since I replaced so many boards. It is a 600Hz tv unlike the Philips.

The SS and SN are likely to be pretty new. Should get some good use out of it, gotta be better than the philips.

[tom66]

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All plasmas are 600Hz driven. Well the Philips might be 480Hz but either way you won't see the difference. Plasma TVs process sub-fields differently to LCD TVs.

[dcapper]

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Learned something new. Thank you. Does a panel take a beating when all the boards driving it blow? That's why I'm concerned about the Panasonic.

[tom66]

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Shouldn't do, the panels are basically glass and metal electrodes.

[tw2005]

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Learned something new. Thank you. Does a panel take a beating when all the boards driving it blow? That's why I'm concerned about the Panasonic.

Both mine are rebirthed with SC boards, admittedly just the one was shorted. 1.5 and 2 yrs on both still great. they only had 2 -2500hrs on them when I got them.

[dcapper]

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Both mine are rebirthed with SC boards, admittedly just the one was shorted. 1.5 and 2 yrs on both still great. they only had 2 -2500hrs on them when I got them.

Awesome! I guess I'm keeping the Panasonic.

[tw2005]

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Awesome! I guess I'm keeping the Panasonic.

Having one more crack at my 42X20, same as yours. Just scored SN/SS/C1/C2 boards at a good price.

If it's still no good after that then that's it.

[dcapper]

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Having one more crack at my 42X20, same as yours. Just scored SN/SS/C1/C2 boards at a good price.

If it's still no good after that then that's it.

So what have you replaced on that one? You were having the same troubles as I did. I thought I wouldn't get mine working because of the wrong A board.

[tw2005]

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if i was in the US market it would be easy but Australian A boards are pretty unique.

I'd say your A board is not the same one but is the right one, just slightly different features so it was always going to work really. it was all the other surprises I was worried about and you did not disaapoint there either.

Does make me wonder if these are a little tempermental when something fails.

Mine is a mess really, repaired SS with just the IGBTs, then A board was dead 1 blinker,got a NZ board and rechipped it from my old one.

Kind of disappointed i did not know the 1 blink was a single eeprom bad but that's the way it went.

somehow blew a DG501 IGBT in the ERC cct on the SN, still not going at this point either, then took a pot shot at the C board and found a buffer IC on that shot, running but picture just maldischarged and I get vertical white band on the C buffer i touched, give it a tap and that goes.
Corroded ribbon between the SN and A.
Plus it had 8000hrs on it so really my worst Panasonic for a fixer. very high humidity here and who knows what happened to it.

Only having a nother go because i have nothing else to work on and seeing yours running, I'm hoping that if i replace all the pnel boards I might get lucky.

Anyway should be able to sell the boards if no joy, waste of a panel though if i fail.

since plasmas are gone, I'll keep it just in case if I fix it.

So essentially all boards except PSU, A board will have a question mark since it was something i attacked and a miracle it still works to turn it on.