Holy mother of TV scores!

[JeffJ]

Re: Holy mother of TV scores!

I can almost guarantee that LG 55LE5500 has bad LEDS, multiple. Good luck though.

[retiredcaps]

Re: Holy mother of TV scores!

I thought I hit it last night when I picked up a 64" Samsung plasma from 2012 so thin for 50 bucks and only thing wrong with it so far is a fuse.

Nice.

I love plasma over ccfl/led. I haven't see the new oled tv yet though for any length of time.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Holy mother of TV scores!

^^ That must have been a bitch to carry.

The guy i got the sets off told me the Sharp has some weird U-shaped CCFLs and he couldn't find any, so that one sounds like a good candidate for a LED tape retrofit.

For the other ones, they have not been messed with, i'm pretty sure.

The seller let me take the back off the 55" LG and also the Sky and the Philips. He seemed like the kind of guy who has the tools but lacks the experience to use them and he's afraid to mess things up more when presented with difficult failures. He works for some people that bring broken stuff by the truckload from Germany, and they have switched from TVs to audio amps and receivers recently, so he was looking to pawn the remaining TVs to free up some room for other stuff.

[audiofreak19]

Re: Holy mother of TV scores!

Nice find. I thought I hit it last night when I picked up a 64" Samsung plasma from 2012 so thin for 50 bucks and only thing wrong with it so far is a fuse. If that's it then it's my best score probably ever

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

You won't believe what i picked up tonight. 6 TVs and one montor for $120!!!

In order of importance, there are:

20" Sharp Aquos 720p, bad CCFLs. Guy told me he replaced the inverter and it worked for 1 more year then the tubes burned out.
30" "Sky" 720p, bad CCFLs and/or inverter. Missing some cables too.
22" Dell monitor, CCFL tubes have been pulled to fix a TV.

And here come the big ones.
37" Philips 1080p CCFL, power board missing, no other details.
40" Grundig (Vestel) 1080p LED, powers on with backlight, no picture.
42" JVC 1080p CCFL, tab bond failures, powers on with picture, left side good, middle good but inverted colors, right side good colors but lagging motion.
And the best for last - 55" LG 1080p LED Seems to boot up, no backlight no picture. It's pretty much the big brother of my 37LE5300, it's a 55LE5500. Same kind of combo mainboard/tcon, so it could very well be the main but it's expensive to get. We'll see. But holy crap this sucker is huge.

Besides the JVC all sets also came with stands.

My boss helped me carry them home, it was interesting fitting all this stuff in the car and carrying it home. I'll be back with pics.

The JVC is first up. I'll let you know what i find.