Re: Panasonic TC-P50X5 Plasma TV Dead

Wow!

About 9 months ago this Panasonic TC-P5x05 was thrown out by a neighbor and sat outside for trash pickup until the old lady next door snatched it and dragged it into her apartment.

A month later it was setting back outside for trash pickup, so I dragged it in and set it on my desk. Plugged it in. no signs of life - no idiot lights, no sound, nothing. I had looked online and found some known issue with power supply components, so it sat for 9 months.

Today I invest 3 hours time looking for the...

Introduction - Sweet & Simple...

Hi,

I'm originally from Southern California

ELECTRONICS:
Got my Electronics Engineering Degree at ITT Technical Institute, Carson CA - 1990. As graduation - Finals project for Lab I built a Computerized Drink Mixer from scratch. Made my own ISA interface card interface to the mixer, wrote software that controlled it, and consequently shortly after graduation I was hired at ITT Tech as an Electronics Instructor - which I ended up teaching 8 years professionally.

COMPUTERS:
Prior to my...