Hello badcaps.net
To introduce myself a little, I'm a Applied physics student who has followed a small course with an introduction to electronics, so I have the basics down. However I'm a complete noob in TV electronics, all I read was the thread about Plasma TV troubleshooting.
We bought a new television, so this TV is mine.
We've had this plasma TV for around 10 years, and as it's age grew it shown more and more problems. At first it sometimes would only show picture in black and white. Now it's most recent problem is, that when I somtimes turn it on it will show no picture. Just blackness + the backlight? Or Picture but no sound. Or any combination of this, thus no sound and no picture, no picure but sounds works, no sound but there is picture but it's B/W, etc.... Sometimes everything works, but it's way too much trouble to keep unplugging let the caps discharge and replug it, to see if any of the 3 combinations do not occur.
Today I opened it up and saw that 2 caps next to each other had something oozing out of them, these caps went bad for sure. I'm going to replace them tomorrow, as the shops aren't opened anymore here.
My question is, might other stuff like y-buffer z-buffer also be needing replacement? Note I did kinda check the fuse, I have no idea how so I just set it to the setting that will peep when the parts are "connected"
. The normal impedance setting didn't work for me as I couldn't get it to show more than 0 ohms. But with that sound wave like picture setting, I checked that all fuses were OK?
Another question is, this model has also an version that has more/better inputs. Is it possible to swap boards or something so I could have more inputs?
The bad caps are near the numbered 50, right from the 50, down below next to the coil.
For example this one :
Mine only has RCA, and the picture has option for component video. I'd also like more pixels as this is quite an old plasma panel, but that isn't possible
To introduce myself a little, I'm a Applied physics student who has followed a small course with an introduction to electronics, so I have the basics down. However I'm a complete noob in TV electronics, all I read was the thread about Plasma TV troubleshooting.
We bought a new television, so this TV is mine.
We've had this plasma TV for around 10 years, and as it's age grew it shown more and more problems. At first it sometimes would only show picture in black and white. Now it's most recent problem is, that when I somtimes turn it on it will show no picture. Just blackness + the backlight? Or Picture but no sound. Or any combination of this, thus no sound and no picture, no picure but sounds works, no sound but there is picture but it's B/W, etc.... Sometimes everything works, but it's way too much trouble to keep unplugging let the caps discharge and replug it, to see if any of the 3 combinations do not occur.
Today I opened it up and saw that 2 caps next to each other had something oozing out of them, these caps went bad for sure. I'm going to replace them tomorrow, as the shops aren't opened anymore here.
My question is, might other stuff like y-buffer z-buffer also be needing replacement? Note I did kinda check the fuse, I have no idea how so I just set it to the setting that will peep when the parts are "connected"
. The normal impedance setting didn't work for me as I couldn't get it to show more than 0 ohms. But with that sound wave like picture setting, I checked that all fuses were OK?Another question is, this model has also an version that has more/better inputs. Is it possible to swap boards or something so I could have more inputs?
The bad caps are near the numbered 50, right from the 50, down below next to the coil.
For example this one :
Mine only has RCA, and the picture has option for component video. I'd also like more pixels as this is quite an old plasma panel, but that isn't possible
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