Booya, I fixed it

[slag]

Guy on craigslist had this tv for sale locally. Said it hasn't worked in a couple years. Asked him the symptoms and he said green blinking timer light on front.

Researched this and found that its common to have some capacitors go out prematurely due to their heat rating and voltage rating. Fix is to desolder and replace the 85 degree, 16 v caps with 105 degree, 35 volt caps. In all, I replaced 10 caps, 1000 microfarad and 2200 microfarad with some I ordered from digikey. Half of the caps were bulging and 2 had leaked a bit. The others looked good, but since I was in there already, I just replaced them.

Put it all back together tonight and voila, it powered up and I was watching tv.

I ended up paying $90.00 for the TV and about 20 bucks for the caps plus shipping (bought some spare caps)

I had to take out about a zillion screws, remove tons of cabling, etc, and in the end, it all worked, even with leftover parts

Its a WD-62725 model

Thinking this TV would go well out in my man cave (Garage). I already have a 65 inch rear projection in the basement. Maybe I'll just sell it and try to get $500.00 for it. Would be nice to have the extra cash right now for presents and some speakers.

 

[Q]

Nice job!

 

[Mo0o]

That deserves a stamp on your man card. Well done sir

 

[Mojoed]

Yeah nice job mang. It's always a nice feeling after fixing something up.

 

[Tiamat]

thats pretty sweet. I'd figure with all the cables and soldering etc. at least 1 thing would have gone wrong to cause the TV not to work. Kudos!

 

[tasmanian]

Nice job, you shoulda low balled him with 50$.

 

[djheater]

Since you've had positive response so far, I feel the need to even it out by saying:
You paid $90 for a non-working TV?!?

 

[l0cke]

Yeah, you paid for that? The LG monitor I am using right now I got for free and then fixed. You should have told him $9.0

 

[PM650]

Originally posted by: slag

I had to take out about a zillion screws, remove tons of cabling, etc, and in the end, it all worked, even with leftover parts

lol, nice job indeed.

Good news is you won't have to worry about replacing convergence chips, bad news is $100 bulbs suck - have fun with that in the future. :thumbsup:

 

[chuckywang]

Pics of TV turned on, stat!

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: l0cke
Yeah, you paid for that? The LG monitor I am using right now I got for free and then fixed. You should have told him $9.0

Unless the seller knew it could be fixed, didn't know/care/have skillset to repair it on his own and just wanted it gone.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
That deserves a stamp on your man card. Well done sir

this, despite paying for something broken. i wish i knew how to tinker with electronics like this.

 

[PottedMeat]

nice!

Originally posted by: l0cke
Yeah, you paid for that? The LG monitor I am using right now I got for free and then fixed. You should have told him $9.0

heh i got my current monitor for free, but I had to pay $1 for the dell P4 system it came with. turns out the inverter had a fried output capacitor - $1 fix!

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: djheater
Since you've had positive response so far, I feel the need to even it out by saying:
You paid $90 for a non-working TV?!?

I was pretty sure I could fix it after reading up online about it, so it was a fairly safe gamble.

He wanted $100.00

 

[God Mode]

I stopped buying used tv's to fix up after encountering some beat up pos's where the owner already opened it up and attempted to repair it. They always deny that its been opened and worked on.

 

[biggestmuff]

Awesome. :beer:

Who's the man?

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Awesome. :beer:

Who's the man?

not you

 

[Dualist]

Good work!

 

[bret]

give you 20.00 for it

 

[Spg]

I have the same tv that just got that same problem. I looked at the boards and the caps looked ok from what I could tell. Any other way to tell which caps are bad?

 

[waggy]

Yeap Mitsubishi had a bunch of them with that problem. when i had to replace my lamp i found a bunch of threads on it. They were also blowing out the lamp fast. within 2 years.


I have a mitsubishi 65 inch dlp and its been great. but after all the problems i hear about them (there was not many when i got it) i would have got teh samsung. But i haven't had any issues in the 3 years (or so) i have had it.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Awesome. :beer:

Who's the man?

He's either the man, or he stuck it to the man, take your pick.

 

[spacelord]

Sweet. It's a great feeling when you fix something like that and it works!
I fixed my 46" Rear Projection by re soldering some joints on a chip which tend to go bad. The soldering was easy.. getting to the board out and back in place sucked though.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
That deserves a stamp on your man card. Well done sir

This. Definite man points.