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The Story Of Repairing An Unlucky LCD TV

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Uploaded by on Jan 7, 2010

This unlucky 37" Sharp LCD TV fell off a shelf...and somehow it *didn't* break the display element!

But there was a "bite" taken out of the power supply board when the power supply cord snapped taut and took the connector off. Could it be fixed? Watch and find out!

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  • good video!, I used to repair dropped CRT Tv's (before LCD and plasma made them obsolete) and it was common to see cracks around the heavy transformers, power socket and heatsinks.

    even had one big screen TEAC that came good after a few hours of work, only to find the aperture grill inside the CRT had been jolted out of position and none of the electrons lined up with the right color phosphor dots! :(

  • @Aussie50 Thanks. :-) What always amazed me about CRTs is how much abuse they would take. It seems counterintuitive that a big glass bottle with that much vacuum pressure on it could be so robust. I've had some luck with careful application of small magnets to get the electron beams back to where they'd hit the right spots on damaged tubes. Usually it was a trade off between the right colors or the right picture geometry. It's probably not worth that effort today.

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  • And yet, somehow, there is no video of your doing better over on your channel.

    Somehow I'm not surprised.

    For the record, this TV is still running.

  • I don't have enough hands or helpers to run the camera when I'm making these videos. I have to do it all myself, and that means stopping to take video after each major step.

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  • @MrRelentess Who knows? Nitwits and naysayers are everywhere these days. I'm not going to let it bother me--you can't please everyone after all! The TV is still running very nicely today.

  • @anythinggoesforthis are u kidding? he fixed the tv and it cost nothing.. it works? and it might look ulgy on the inside but works perfect

  • @Aussie50 LCD panels are surprisingly durable too, many of the old LCD's I find at the junkyard have been thrown into bins, had stuff fall on them, and received a fair bit of abuse!, and only one was actually broken!, a 42" that had a electric oven dropped on it :p

    I'd be willing to bet a Plasma TV would not survive a tumble like the one you are fixing did!

  • alright, mountain dew throw back and you fixed the tv great video

  • nice job!

  • A job well done ... Congrats.

  • The reason it didnt break the screen was that a lot of the energy of the fall went into the power cord (which is plastic/elastic ) and breaking off that part of the circuit board.

  • @Matthew55904 wtf a crt tube tv wtf is wrong with ya man u dont repair those retro things you get another one and usualy free on craigslist >.>

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