What tv brand do you most common repair ?

[ozzy214]

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I have to say Vizio I see the most. Every bloody one of them the mainboard dies, usually the eeprom chip. I even have a jvc that I think is a rebadged vizio and same thing bad eeprom chip. It bears a very striking resemblance to a Vizio.

The worst was a 21" razor edge lit Vizio. Selling for 225 at Walmart a few months back. Lady turned it on 7 times in 2 months. Bam stuck at the Vizio logo, bad eeprom.

Sold it to me for 20 bucks even know still under warranty. I bought the 15 usd eeprom chip, fixed it, and resold it.

The off brand Hisense, Emerson, etc with the combo power/main led tv I see a lot of those.

Last on the list is Dynex, Best Buy brand. Not sure who makes them, but see a lot of failed panels.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Vestel have taken the lead due to their crappy Led Tv's failing almost half of what I have done is them. After Ves Id say Lg then Samsung tbh.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Update its now Vestel by a long shot been repairing a tonne of them lately.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Be very careful with cleaning stuff on plasmas - a friend of mine had a 6th gen Pioneer and they use the wrong cleaner, damaged the antireflective film on the glass, result is there's a part of the picture left of centre that's brighter than the rest. Doh!

Lol ohh dear, luckily I only used it on an lcd

[newtothis]

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I have never had any issues with IPA myself

[tom66]

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Be very careful with cleaning stuff on plasmas - a friend of mine had a 6th gen Pioneer and they use the wrong cleaner, damaged the antireflective film on the glass, result is there's a part of the picture left of centre that's brighter than the rest. Doh!

[ReeceyBurger123]

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I tried to use ipa but mine always leave streaks so I just stick to grundig brand lcd cleaning stuff lol

[newtothis]

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I use IPA to clean my screen I have gallons of the stuff as I do BGA reworking. It insta evaporates and leaves no residue.

Mrs went to copy me once.... Luckily I was there as she went to clean it with MEK!!! :S

[mwalsh]

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I do see a lot of failed panels still TBH, Especially when looking around the area for sets on local sites... Samsung panels! I don't touch them so can't say the causes 100% but most likely water damage to the tabs as they are bottom mounted on newer designs to alleviate heat issues

We're fairly new to LCDs in our household, and I do most of the cleaning (being as her indoors is rubbish at it), but I did decide recently to give the wife "the talk" about not spraying anything directly onto TV screens, and that if she was tempted to use a damp cloth to make absolutely sure it was barely damp and not in the slightest bit "drippy".

[newtothis]

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I do see a lot of failed panels still TBH, Especially when looking around the area for sets on local sites... Samsung panels! I don't touch them so can't say the causes 100% but most likely water damage to the tabs as they are bottom mounted on newer designs to alleviate heat issues

[Terryfictv]

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I see all brands that are worth spending your hard-earned on!
Mostly Samsung because of market share and I agree about 2011.
However, I still get older LG, Vizio,Panasonic,Philips and Sharp.I turn away a lot
of Sony with bad panels. And since the first of the year, I am very choosey about
older plasma of any brand = diagnosis fee up front or go away ! ( $120.00 )

[mwalsh]

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Yes 2011 is also what I am seeing!

That makes me sad...my two favorite TVs (LG)...one is a late 2011 and the other an early 2012. But I bought them both pre-owned (so about half of what was retail). The older one I've had for about 2 years now and is up to about 9,500 hours. It runs around 15-16 hours a day, continuously. The newer one I've only had for about 4 months and it's maybe at about 4,500 hours. It runs about 12 hours a day, continuously. So far, so good, though I do keep an extended warranty going on both, just for the hell of it.

I was actually going to ask what years are showing up for repair of late. So with that now known, what kind of repairs are they (if there is one that's seen more often than others)? Surely we're well beyond bad caps and bad tab bonds?

EDIT: Just for giggles, I decided to go take a quick look on Google and see if I could figure out what the most common repair might be for my TVs (both CS570s - a 42" and a 47"). It seems like maybe the most common problem is intermittent starting, or shutting off shortly after startup, which is fixed by replacing either the mainboard or PSU. So at least it's not bad LCD panels, which is good!

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Actually umcs im seeing fail alot but they use megmeet and leke psus along with corrupt epproms, again alot from around 2011-2013

[newtothis]

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Yes 2011 is also what I am seeing!

[Caleb]

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Funai (emerson, magnavox and sylvania) followed by samsung then phillips. +1 on 2011 sets, I have several including a panasonic.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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always bad samsungs for me but it still could be because of marketing that probbaly
more samsungs are sold but also i have found that any brand made in 2011
are bad as if 2011 they all really screwed up

I agree most of the tvs I get are 2011 sets, that's probably the year they all started going cheap and poor quality and now 3 years later they are all failing.

[tom thumb]

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always bad samsungs for me but it still could be because of marketing that probbaly
more samsungs are sold but also i have found that any brand made in 2011
are bad as if 2011 they all really screwed up

[Alastair E]

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This week, Ive been mostly doing Samsung.....

[newtothis]

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I haven't seen a panny for a while about a month, got about 13 vestels in though.

Lot of failed IGBT's common with panny.

Only ever had a few of LG in and only 1 Samsung, All LG's have been panel or LED failures, Minus one which was vestel boards and that was a bad startup cap

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Panny and Vestel are the main ones I have dealt with

I haven't seen a panny for a while about a month, got about 13 vestels in though.