Re: Toshiba LcD TV 40L1333b sound no picture

Two things to add to what I said before.

1. If you strip down the display to do this job, you will encounter a number of sheets of plastic between the LED housing and the rear of the actual display panel. When you put these back you must ensure ether go back the same way they were removed as they pass light in one direction and tend to block it in the other.

2. Watch out too for the power supply PCB, (the one mounted on the back, and in the middle of the display), as it has several capacitors that will hang...

Re: Toshiba LcD TV 40L1333b sound no picture

I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this discussion.

I too have a Toshiba 40L1333B which suffered loss of backlighting. I followed the advice I read here, stripped it all down and removed the stupid bridge connectors. One was a little overheated and another was quite spectacular in its distress.

I had no wire available to bypass them, so instead I removed all the plastic bridge connectors, cleaned the contact areas on the LED PCBs, and applied a nice amount of solder to each. I then used a length...