Re: Another Panasonic TX-P42U30B no picture, green power led on constantly

Thanks Dick - I checked it and the board is short circuit as are those surface mount devices - I will order a new board - just slightly worried in case there are other faults but I guess that's the gamble I have to take when I have no real idea what I am doing. There was another thread that asked about the LEDs with no answer - maybe they are on a later version of the board or something.

I did find a few of these in the search but seemingly not with my exact symptom.

We noticed some strange colours on the screen for a while but once "warmed up" it was behaving.

Now it will only show the green power light. On power up the green light does five rapid flashes (green not red) then goes to steady green and remains there. No response to the remote.

Going through all the threads here, my first instinct was a bad SN board - suspecting the failure of the components due to poor earth that is well documented on here, but a couple of...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all
Google brought me here via another site. Like seemingly many others, I have a broken TV and a soldering iron and multimeter and 20+ years experience of making things worse by tinkering with them - what can possibly go wrong?