General Parts and repair question

[Tedybear]

Okay,

Picked up another Emerson 32" flat screen set.

It had a common issue with the blowing of the main fuse. I decided upon running the make/model via eBay for a repair kit that matched the board installed in the set.

Now I am very very sure that it had been repaired before. The heat sink grease clearly was put on by hand and done very sloppy. (Factory/machine install would have been a very clean and 'conservative' apply, not gopped on)

The kit came with all the related diodes, resistor, zeners... The Resistor did not match what I removed. Granted what I removed was internally 'open', so that wasn't doing buttkus. It had a very large black zener (Yeah, my spell checker is telling me I can't spell "Zener". I'm pretty sure everyone knows what I'm talking about)

At any rate. The resistor was not the correct one when matched against the one removed. The large black Z-Diode was dead shorted. The replacement one sent? Small clear crystal type, not the large black package.

Sense I've no idea what the last 'tech' did to the board, I've no clue if he/she replaced the factory parts with the correct ones. So I moved forward and replaced the parts listed in the 'kit'. Fully expecting it to fry parts and not work due to the differences? The set is working 100% normally and has a darn good picture for a basic entry level Emerson.

Sense the TV has been working decent for the last week.. I'm feeling okay about the repair...but not 100%. Would this be a TV that should be resold as 'fixed'? I'm only into this by $30 bucks total. (parts and the set) But I'd hate to 'flip' it on C-List only to have it kick issues up.

What would you Ladies and Gent's do in this case? The set appears to be working normal with the 'kit'. Just concerned.

Thanks in advance all.

S-

[nomoresonys]

Re: General Parts and repair question

Okay,

Picked up another Emerson 32" flat screen set.

It had a common issue with the blowing of the main fuse. I decided upon running the make/model via eBay for a repair kit that matched the board installed in the set.

Now I am very very sure that it had been repaired before. The heat sink grease clearly was put on by hand and done very sloppy. (Factory/machine install would have been a very clean and 'conservative' apply, not gopped on)

The kit came with all the related diodes, resistor, zeners... The Resistor did not match what I removed. Granted what I removed was internally 'open', so that wasn't doing buttkus. It had a very large black zener (Yeah, my spell checker is telling me I can't spell "Zener". I'm pretty sure everyone knows what I'm talking about)

At any rate. The resistor was not the correct one when matched against the one removed. The large black Z-Diode was dead shorted. The replacement one sent? Small clear crystal type, not the large black package.

Sense I've no idea what the last 'tech' did to the board, I've no clue if he/she replaced the factory parts with the correct ones. So I moved forward and replaced the parts listed in the 'kit'. Fully expecting it to fry parts and not work due to the differences? The set is working 100% normally and has a darn good picture for a basic entry level Emerson.

Sense the TV has been working decent for the last week.. I'm feeling okay about the repair...but not 100%. Would this be a TV that should be resold as 'fixed'? I'm only into this by $30 bucks total. (parts and the set) But I'd hate to 'flip' it on C-List only to have it kick issues up.

What would you Ladies and Gent's do in this case? The set appears to be working normal with the 'kit'. Just concerned.

Thanks in advance all.

S-

sell it to a friend or relative, then if it breaks you can fix it again.

[Tedybear]

Re: General Parts and repair question

sell it to a friend or relative, then if it breaks you can fix it again.

LOL.

I considered doing that from the onset. I do not trust my family with a flat screen TV. They have 4 dogs that are kinda on the hyper side and they get running through the house and nothing is safe!

I was thinking maybe selling it at a reduced cost as a 'starter' set. I normally try to double my investment. eg: Pay $10 for a broken set, $25 for the repair parts. And then sell it for about $70 to $75. It's about 50 cheaper then any of the local used stores sell them for. I'm not doing this for a living. Kinda supplements my income a bit, but I'm in this for the fun and the thrill I get for taking something that is broken and 'fixing' it.

I suppose I can sell it with the "as-is" statement and running it for another week or so to ensure it won't screw up. Just odd that several of the key parts are vastly different.

S-

[nomoresonys]

Re: General Parts and repair question

LOL.

I considered doing that from the onset. I do not trust my family with a flat screen TV. They have 4 dogs that are kinda on the hyper side and they get running through the house and nothing is safe!

I was thinking maybe selling it at a reduced cost as a 'starter' set. I normally try to double my investment. eg: Pay $10 for a broken set, $25 for the repair parts. And then sell it for about $70 to $75. It's about 50 cheaper then any of the local used stores sell them for. I'm not doing this for a living. Kinda supplements my income a bit, but I'm in this for the fun and the thrill I get for taking something that is broken and 'fixing' it.

I suppose I can sell it with the "as-is" statement and running it for another week or so to ensure it won't screw up. Just odd that several of the key parts are vastly different.

S-

yes odd, could be the repair kit is an improvement or if someone was working on it before they used the wrong parts.

[freakaftr8]

Re: General Parts and repair question

I agree with nomoresonys. Someone either replaced components with crap that found around the house or installed the wrong kit, blew up the parts because of compatibility issues, gave up and sold it. Or this is an upgrade to the original problem components.