Samsung UE40D5520 bad picture showing (panel or T-con issue?)
Good day folks. I believe I have a bad panel on my hands here, but of course I'd like to check with you guys before I dive into any time consuming repair attempts. It's a Samsung UE40D5520 which displays the garbled mess you can see in the pictures: the first two images shows what the TV displays with both buffers connected to the T-con board (I took it just as I was writing this, LOL 
). That thick line that seems to be running across the display is not a crack, it's the VGA cable that I used to connect the set to the PC, so don't pay attention to that - the panel is fine (at least physically). The following images show what the panel displays with each of the two ribbon cables disconnected from the T-con one by one. First, the one on the left was disconnected, then the one on the right (in the following picture). As you can see, there IS some picture showing, but it's still very distorted with lots of lines running across it and there's some "ghosting" going on on the disconnected side. Most importantly, the side that's disconnected, to my mind, should stay completely white on a fully functional set. I also read somewhere else around here that the D series is known for having faulty panels, so that's what further leads me to think it's not the T-con. What do you think ? Worth fiddling with it, or is it going straight in the trash ?
). That thick line that seems to be running across the display is not a crack, it's the VGA cable that I used to connect the set to the PC, so don't pay attention to that - the panel is fine (at least physically). The following images show what the panel displays with each of the two ribbon cables disconnected from the T-con one by one. First, the one on the left was disconnected, then the one on the right (in the following picture). As you can see, there IS some picture showing, but it's still very distorted with lots of lines running across it and there's some "ghosting" going on on the disconnected side. Most importantly, the side that's disconnected, to my mind, should stay completely white on a fully functional set. I also read somewhere else around here that the D series is known for having faulty panels, so that's what further leads me to think it's not the T-con. What do you think ? Worth fiddling with it, or is it going straight in the trash ?
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