Re: Vizio M43-C1 No Backlights



It's been a couple of months since I reflowed that board, and gave the TV to a friend that uses it about daily. So far it's working fine....

Re: Vizio M43-C1 No Backlights


Thanks for the advise on this.
I just reflowed one of these board in a toaster/reflow oven with a controller I built a while back to reflow small prototype boards, and the TV has been running for a couple of days now, will see how long it lasts.
I heated the board to 50C for a minute, then ramped up to about 170C, another couple of minutes to get there, when raised up to 190C, but because thermal inertia the temperature on the board continued going up and got up to about 210C at the heatsink, stayed there for a minute or so and...