I got this model in awhile ago with the symptom of TV turning on with no backlights. I found one bad LED and new strips weren't available so I repaired it and turned down the backlight in the service menu. Backlight failed again same strip after an hour of testing. I ended up ordering 2W LEDs and replacing every LED in the strip. I tested for a week, sold the TV and it came back with the same failure after 2 days. The buyer was upset even though i gave him a full refund and he cracked the screen returning it.
Fast forward to today and I took this model in for a repair since I have the used strips. The TV was a different chassis (find this common in RCA white label TVs), but luckily used the same strips. It was fairly difficult to reassemble since the frame that support the panel was plastic riveted at the bottom, attached to the outer bezel at the top and floating on the sides. There were also no alignment tabs for the diffuser sheets to keep them in place. After struggling for a few hours, I finally got the TV together and screwed in the back cover lamenting I would never take this apart a second time. I turned on the TV and had backlight but no video. Removing the back cover, I found out I had screwed into one of the flex interconnect cables between the panel boards.
TLDR - Screwed into flex interconnect cable between panel boards. Need a new one for RCA RTU6049
Edit add - just searched the part number on ebay and they are listed there. M1424TP M0007FV
Edit add 2 - Looks like these ebay sellers want $20 for just for shipping to Canada. If anyone in the US can help me out and forward the item to me a letter, would appreciate it. Can paypal you the money. https://ebay.us/G0diXL
Fast forward to today and I took this model in for a repair since I have the used strips. The TV was a different chassis (find this common in RCA white label TVs), but luckily used the same strips. It was fairly difficult to reassemble since the frame that support the panel was plastic riveted at the bottom, attached to the outer bezel at the top and floating on the sides. There were also no alignment tabs for the diffuser sheets to keep them in place. After struggling for a few hours, I finally got the TV together and screwed in the back cover lamenting I would never take this apart a second time. I turned on the TV and had backlight but no video. Removing the back cover, I found out I had screwed into one of the flex interconnect cables between the panel boards.
TLDR - Screwed into flex interconnect cable between panel boards. Need a new one for RCA RTU6049
Edit add - just searched the part number on ebay and they are listed there. M1424TP M0007FV
Edit add 2 - Looks like these ebay sellers want $20 for just for shipping to Canada. If anyone in the US can help me out and forward the item to me a letter, would appreciate it. Can paypal you the money. https://ebay.us/G0diXL
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