Thanks for all your help guys, but iv just tried replacing this Y-driver and buffers from the other screen and no difference :-(
Exact same lines same size accross the screen....
y-board meaning the y-buffer, the most common fault.
But I believe this faulty tv has a bad display. Iv shown the images before of the ghosty white effect, which is difficult to see in this first picture, but look at the following pictures, which show it more clearly once removing the power to the pcbs that run along the bottom of the tv....
Ignore the vertical lines they are present due to disconnecting the bottom pcbs.
Now whats seriously annoying is i sourced a display...
Sounds like a short once something is switching in.
Is it the buffer board y or y sus main? If you can get hold of a new/second hand pcb and try it, thats the way id go.
Are you uk based?
I see, I got loads of service manuals but not one for this tv, It gives me an idea though.
All they do is replace y-x-z. So a service engineer has these full set of pcbs(in an ideal world!) and just swaps them out.... job done in 15mins then.
I prefer the component level fault finding too, il try with these pcbs doing ohm test comparisons.
Wizard what do you think of what looks like a burn on a ribbon cable going into the Xmain pcb?
Also I have 6 going into this xmain - what do they actually...
Well my new pcb arrived quick, and thats made no difference :-(
On the Xmain I found this on one of the ribbon cables (in line with my two faulty horizontal lines, looks like a small burn? :
Thats on this PCB the other side of the tv, when I pull the top one I lose a small part of the top of the screen, the second one down fills the 2 black lines together. So that sounded normal, untill I pulled the 3rd and nothing, 4th nothing, 5th nothing but 6th I lost the whole bottom half of the screen...
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Think i may understand the "ohm the buffers"
found this when googling - [url]http://blog.coppelltvrepair.com/2010/03/how-to-identify-burned-buffer-boards.html[/url]Re: Samsung 50" Plasma PS50A556S2FXX...rds.html[/url]
Both lines are solid to a point (see tape marking end of solid line, left to right), the picture isnt too clear, you can see the top line, basically the bottom is the same.
I have two horizontal 1.5" black lines runing through the top half of the screen.
They are not ghost black lines but solid lines.
Im quite competent in electronics repair, id just like to know if im wasting my time with a faulty display panel before I start fault finding the electronics.
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