My wife works at a hotel and brought home a TV they were going to throw out, thinking I'd be able to use it for my business if I could get it working. Plugged in, the red standby light would come on the front panel, but it was completely unresponsive.
Opened it up, did all the usual checks and found several problems. The first thing I noticed was that the Reset and Update switches were horribly mangled. They looked like someone had been jamming them REALLY HARD with a screwdriver or something. The reset switch was in a state that it was no longer possible for the two sides to make physical...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Introductory post - as a kid I took a lot of things apart, and got very few of them back together. I'm much better at that now though. While my wife was watching me attempt a TV repair tonight, she said she was glad I understood this kind of stuff.
I don't understand this kind of stuff. I understand it just enough to know how much I don't understand it. That said, I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron and can trace down basic faults with a decent success rate. I also play around with Arduinos to make toy space ships light...