Re: Panasonic TC-P42S30 vertical multicolor lines



Hm, disconnected C boards from everything but the panel. C1 board where the 'dead' vertical section is measures no shorts on C137, C138 all similar places, C2 board where I get al least sparklies on every section measures only 40 ohm on all the caps...weird. I'm wondering if I measured the right caps, these were the bigger ones on the board.

I guess the short might be on the 'better' looking side too. Is there any way of measuring the panel itself just in case a new C board might fix it?...

Re: Panasonic TC-P42S30 vertical multicolor lines



Checking the screen again it looks like there is one vertical section that's constantly dark, I'll take the bottom part apart and see if I can figure out exactly what is broken. :/...

Re: Panasonic TC-P42S30 vertical multicolor lines



Unfortunately the service mode screen is messed up also.

I got a new battery for my multimeter so I was able to do some measurements and it looks like V15 is shorted on the P board I only got about 39 Ohm on P11 V15 without anything connected to the P board.

With P6 and P35 connected (but not P11 or P2) I get 15.6V when turned on (Vsus solid 213). Same with P11 and P2 connected...

So, removing the P board and measuring again, I get no short....

It's getting...

Hi,

My less-than 2-year old TC-P42S30 just broke with symptoms that don't seem to match anything I've been finding here. I get no blinks, sound works fine, visual lines are not limited to any specific part of the display.

I took the back panel off and tried some basic troubleshooting until my multimeter died so I'll be continuing that later today. Disconnecting SN board gets me 8 blinks, disconnecting SS board gets me 6 blinks. That debugging and measuring voltages will continue later, but I just wanted to post the pictures of the display in case anyone had seen it...

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Hi, found this place trying to figure out if my Panasonic TC-P42S30 is fixable. I like to tinker with things anyway, so I'm sure I'll be around quite a bit.