Is it worth fixing my old Pioneer Plasma?

[Gio G]

So the day has come after 10 years of fantastic service to the family, the Pioneer 43" no longer wants to start up. Cannot get it on a green light from standby. Might be something simple to fix, I have no idea, however the question is - it is worth fixing? I cannot bear to scrap such a lovely panel, however not sure how economical it is to fix..

Anyone had a similar dilemma?

Thanks G

Edited by Gio G on Monday 3rd November 12:05

[belleair302]

I would say if the job inc VAT and labour is under £450 then certainly....it may be a simple switch or something. If more serious sadly no, time for a more modern screen. There are a few 55" Panasonic VT's around (last of the plasma's) or it will be a new OLED screen costing way more than £2,000.

[audidoody]

I managed to get £195 on the Bay for my working PDPXX 50-inch non-Kuro Pioneer bought in 2005 for £3,000.

The cost of progress.

10 years is a lifetime for a consumer electronic thing. Yours lived to a ripe old age.

Give it a decent burial.

[bristolracer]

Put one in for repair for a customer, different issue but the parts for repair were NLA so it was scrapped.

Yours may be worth a look, if you know a decent repair guy as it sounds like a power supply issue, but be prepared to pay the guy to diagnose the fault.

You have to then weigh up costs against replacement etc.

My client replaced his with a sony which he seems happy with

[fulgurex]

Dump it!

Used 42" Pioneer plasma of that age can be bought for £150 secondhand. Repair cost likely more than that.

[Bullett]

My 43" PDP is in the garage not working because the cable that joins the box to the screen is fubar.

Can't bring myself to dump it as it was working before it came off the wall.

[hoegaardenruls]

I had a different brand plasma do similar, and the power supply turned out to be the issue - much as it does with other kit.

I was about to dump it, when I thought I'd check for common issues. Bought a few resistors to replace the usual ones on the board which were known to fail - job done, for less than a fiver. Chances are that the power supply is an individual circuit board, so could be replaced on its own.

Don''t rule out looking on Fleabay for parts either, as after that I picked up the same TV (with a cracked screen) to strip for parts - for the grand total of 99p.. There are a few sellers who do individual boards as well.

[Salesy]

Bullett said:

My 43" PDP is in the garage not working because the cable that joins the box to the screen is fubar.

Can't bring myself to dump it as it was working before it came off the wall.

My 43 PDP is still going strong, But when it comes to replacement i will be using a Panny.

The screen cables can be purchased quite easily. I have one here as i needed a longer one for my install.


Don't bin it!!!!!

[Morningside]

Is it the old dried out capacitor fault? I fixed our old Samsung with the same fault and it cost me £1.99 in parts.

[russ_a]

My son used our Sony LCD as a money box filling it with 2p's via the service slot. The main PCB blew and I was quoted a few hundred £ to get it repaired.

A quick search on eBay found the part £10 delivered (PCB). When delivered it came covered in only an Asda carrier bag so I didn't hold much hope of it working.

15 minutes later the PCB was installed and the TV was working again. However, it did take me six months to realise that the left hand speaker had been turned off in the options.

[gizlaroc]

Gio G said:

So the day has come after 10 years of fantastic service to the family, the Pioneer 43" ........

I only got that far, the answer is 'No'.
That 42" was an overrated screen 10 years ago, certainly not worth repairing.

5080 is much better and changing hands for £250.

5090 even better and changing hands for £450.

One of the last Panasonic sets that you could buy for £300 new would beat it hands down.