What tv brand do you most common repair ?

[tom66]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

Of all plasmas, Panasonic is hardest to repair mainly due to the complicated driver boards but the picture quality is outstanding and reliability is much longer than typical LED-LCD TV.

[saddle_au]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

I see Samsung, Sony, LG, Toshiba and Sharp. I see a lot more Sonic, Teac, medion, TCL etc, but don't want them, no hope for obtaining service information.

I like Samsungs because they are repairable most of the time. It might be that the quantity of Samsungs sold means repairers get to see more of them compared to other brands. Most times there is a service manual around (which never describes all the boards in there).

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Samsung = Bad caps, Bad TCons, Bad PFC fets, blown up 8 pin dip high voltage switch mode chips, bad tabs, bad tab chips and bad main boards. Gecko sized entry points to the back of the screen.
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Sony = Really bad dry jointed tab chips, Bad tabs, Bad TCons. Easy at the moment to pickup 46inch screens for next to nothing with bizarre colour issues due to dry jointed tab bond chips
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LG = Bad P/S caps, Bad Main board caps, Bad Main board blocking diodes, Bad main board BGA soldering, sometimes Bad Samsung TCons, Bad mounting and insulation of high voltage areas. Seen some that had burst into flame and eaten the P/S PCB. Loved the obscurely worded service bulletin issued about it.
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Sharp -= Bad front end fets on power supplies (living the dream at 240v here)
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Wouldn't touch generics which surprisingly includes JVC these days. Toshiba is falling off my desirable list as well, the last two opened had nothing Toshiba in them. Asked for a Toshiba main board quote for replacement and the "proper" techs wouldn't even guarantee the new replacement would run either (the last ones they'd got in were faulty).

[johnboy1313]

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I've repaired double the amount of Vizios than the next two highest brands (Panasonic and Samsung) 20 vs 10 each.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Well, since Panasonic doesn't make the plasmas anymore, () that's kind of an irrelevant point, isn't it?

Unless you mean picking up broken, used ones to fix but then it's really a matter of what the fault is with that particular set, regardless of brand....

The most common type of tv I repaired from panasonic were there plasmas and they were always a pain to repair, I know that the picture on there plamas were great but they failed too often in my opinion.

[drussell]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

Well, since Panasonic doesn't make the plasmas anymore, () that's kind of an irrelevant point, isn't it?

Unless you mean picking up broken, used ones to fix but then it's really a matter of what the fault is with that particular set, regardless of brand....

[batocko]

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who is the beter build Panasonic LCD/LED or plasma

[ReeceyBurger123]

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So what LCD/LED TV brand has less problems?, i think these days all of them are made with cheap components,not much choice.

Depends how they construct the circuit, is one of the main factors that will affect how long the components lasts for.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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So what LCD/LED TV brand has less problems?, i think these days all of them are made with cheap components,not much choice.

Panasonic (most panasonics I repair are plasmas), sharp (not rebranded), sony.

[tom66]

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So what LCD/LED TV brand has less problems?, i think these days all of them are made with cheap components,not much choice.

Panasonic, Sharp (if not rebadged) then -maybe- LG (some are also rebadged)

[ivtec]

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Samsung's are cursed with a horrible flaw I dont tink I have seen one of their lcds or plasmas live past 5 years because they are junk.

So what LCD/LED TV brand has less problems?, i think these days all of them are made with cheap components,not much choice.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Just as you stated, it appears Samsung is the worst produced at the moment. Kind of on the other side, which is the best brand out there in the 50" class? Just curious as my in laws are after a new tv and asked my advice as to the best brand out there. I told them to stay away from Samsung, but was wondering what everyone list of best to worst is? I guess that would fall in line with the less often units repaired is.
Thanks for your input in advance. I am a beginner of tv repairs, and have gained a lot of help from this site. I just had someone call with a Samsung pn50a460s4d. Same symptoms as another poster made. Wondering if it is worth replacing the board on almost 7 year plasma.

Probably not because a few months later it will probably fail again tbh.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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This is the nicest way to ask which brand is the biggest piece of crap! I love it. Samsung does seem to come in first a lot. Everyone hears Samsung and they automatically think they are great. Then I tell them they are built with the cheapest parts out there. Personally, I've had the best luck with my older Panasonic Plasma and Philips LCD's.

Samsung's are cursed with a horrible flaw I dont tink I have seen one of their lcds or plasmas live past 5 years because they are junk.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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I believe I have a 26" Logik with the same board in it. It's stuck in standby but there are no shorted diodes on the output. Where was the diode shorted on yours?

It was a output package I willl highlight it in the photo, I have seen these boards in the 18-32" ultra slim logiks.

[drussell]

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Samsung does seem to come in first a lot. Everyone hears Samsung and they automatically think they are great. Then I tell them they are built with the cheapest parts out there. Personally, I've had the best luck with my older Panasonic Plasma and Philips LCD's.

I'm not sure where anyone gets the idea that Samsung is great!? Are they delusional!??

I find them synonymous with "Cheap-Korean-Crap"... I guess their marketing department has successufully fooled the masses...

The early Philips plasmas are awesome... LG/Philips "collaboration" panels with the premium Philips electronics! I would buy one in a heartbeat... Dittto Pioneer, probably the best built FP sets out there.... If you see one, even not working, at a decent price, snatch it... They don't make them like that anymore!!!

I'm still mourning the loss of Panasonic's Plasma division.. I could have made a decent living selling quality plasma sets to people who understand but noooooo, not economical enough, apparently...

I don't care if they'd charged twice the price, I could still have sold them to people who actually "get it"......

[reelitin]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

Just as you stated, it appears Samsung is the worst produced at the moment. Kind of on the other side, which is the best brand out there in the 50" class? Just curious as my in laws are after a new tv and asked my advice as to the best brand out there. I told them to stay away from Samsung, but was wondering what everyone list of best to worst is? I guess that would fall in line with the less often units repaired is.
Thanks for your input in advance. I am a beginner of tv repairs, and have gained a lot of help from this site. I just had someone call with a Samsung pn50a460s4d. Same symptoms as another poster made. Wondering if it is worth replacing the board on almost 7 year plasma.

[ibgm]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

This is the nicest way to ask which brand is the biggest piece of crap! I love it. Samsung does seem to come in first a lot. Everyone hears Samsung and they automatically think they are great. Then I tell them they are built with the cheapest parts out there. Personally, I've had the best luck with my older Panasonic Plasma and Philips LCD's.

[tom66]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

I believe I have a 26" Logik with the same board in it. It's stuck in standby but there are no shorted diodes on the output. Where was the diode shorted on yours?

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Haha, I love the overhanging capacitor. I believe it's a UMC design (Slovakia) made in China. Absolute piece of shit.

My mate Colin who also repairs tvs sold a whole bunch of logiks with these same boards I give it a year before they are all returned.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Most customers are swearing by Samsung tvs these days. If they only knew what we are finding they would be swearing at them. I just had a lady that purchased a brand new one in the box before Christmas and i told her to take it back. She probably didnt follow my advice but thats the norm these days. You guys are surely right about those off brand sets;I hate to see them coming.

Very ture my main tv is a Pioneer kuro and it will outlast many of the brand new samsungs.

[Herbssat]

Re: What tv brand do you most common repair ?

Most customers are swearing by Samsung tvs these days. If they only knew what we are finding they would be swearing at them. I just had a lady that purchased a brand new one in the box before Christmas and i told her to take it back. She probably didnt follow my advice but thats the norm these days. You guys are surely right about those off brand sets;I hate to see them coming.