tidbit on 5 years old Panasonic plasma.

[Wizard]

42" Even the mightest is not immume to bad Z-driver tape IC driver. Means whole panel required.

Oh yeah, to stir the spice pot, it does have bloating UCC 700uF 200V squat capacitor in the power supply.

Too bad this is good nice TV unit even with the very early HDMI input and very pretty internally. Too pretty to be covered up by back. :o

Cheers, Wizard

[cadiman]

Re: tidbit on 5 years old Panasonic plasma.

This is good info. It`s good to know what pdps are set up like this as to not bring them home only to need to dispose of them. I had a recycling center call me to look at thrown out tvs and need to know what to stay away from.
Cadiman

[Wizard]

Re: tidbit on 5 years old Panasonic plasma.

Simple visual will tell you if TV is fixable, NOTE this APPLY ONLY to plasma stuff!
LCD with this symptoms is total junk or send panel itself to the third party LCD repair.

many lines or one or a band ACROSS the TV is OK to fix.

one lone vertical line or few vertical lines or vertical band of any size is failed z-driver IC and require whole panel replacement or send it to specialized third party to repair. This is routinely done with LCDs.

HOWEVER! horizontal or vertical multiple lines of WHOLE panel or pinstripes at regular inventuals of whole Panel is fixable, bad logic board, LVDS cable or main board.

Cheers, Wizard