Re: LG 42" Plasma (will enter Model number later)

Oh and something that has been nagging at me since I heard a friend mention it...

Someone told me "Oh yeah Plasmas are nice but I couldn't ever get one because they have that one huge fault where they cannot ever lay down horizontal on a surface, because if they do the screen is shot, you throw it out-- that's why they are always shipped standing up in the boxes".

I find that hard to believe for many different reasons, but I was wondering if anyone here knew where or how that kind of information...

The P/N was buried as the TV was buried behind all of the rest of my to-do projects, but now that I uncovered it it is:

Model Number 42PC3DC-UD.A
Manufactured June 2006
Chassis PA-51D

I appreciate the hand behind the back someone nearby with 911 on speed dial warning, but if I felt that inept with electronics I wouldn't be on this forum

Besides, that was the warning for back in the day when the residual charge on a CRT could seriously F* you up if you were holding on to chassis ground and completed the path to the CRT anode right?...

Hello, I have a LG 42" Plasma my neighbor gave me because it failed on him and was going to be cost prohibitive to have it professionally repaired...

I was hoping for some assistance using this forum but wanted to get an idea id anyone was interested in assisting before I dug up all the information about the TV heh...

Long and the short of where I was and where I am now with the TV is, I got it, powered it up, lights were on but nobody was home (no display), opened it up, found a blown fuse on the Y-SUS board, replaced it, almost shit my pants when it blew again...