A TV to Fix

[stormdog]

The person I'm seeing for electrolysis had an extra TV that stopped working. I was telling her about how I love fixing electronics and she offered to give it to me! I thought it would be nice to have an LCD TV as well as a plasma because the plasma does have some issues with burn in playing certain video games.

After I got it home I looked at it and realized it's also a plasma. It *did* seem rather heavy when I picked it up...

When plugged in, it makes sounds that I think are a relay engaging, and then disengaging. Just keeps doing that repeatedly. My completely uninformed guess is it's probably a power supply issue, and thus likely bad capacitors somewhere.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Oh you've started the dreaded zapping have you?

Trust me, I can empathise! :o)

[acelightning73]

There are a number of relays in any usual TV power supply. If you keep hearing relays clicking when you turn it on, I do suspect that one of the relays has gone bad, and/or one or more of the capacitors needs replacing. (I first learned electronics by hanging out with a guy who earned his pocket money doing TV repair, to supplement his pay for working in a gas station. He was a friend of my dad's, and he found it amusing that a 12-year-old girl wanted to learn electronics. When I was a few years older, he and I dated for a while, and he taught me how to ride his motorcycle.)