50" Plasma chucked it!!!
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Hi folk. My Sister has just called to see if she could borrow the television out of my spare bedroom, so I ask why, apparently her's has chucked it! It's a 50" Philips Plasma.
I said I would ask any of the folk in the know on here if there were any ideas!! It turns on and has sound but no picture apparently!! I think it's around 4 or 5 years old. She immediately said she's binning it and will buy a new one tomorrow, but I've told her to hold on i case it's repairable!! She's a nightmare that way, she probably won't even get someone to look at it!!
I said I would ask any of the folk in the know on here if there were any ideas!! It turns on and has sound but no picture apparently!! I think it's around 4 or 5 years old. She immediately said she's binning it and will buy a new one tomorrow, but I've told her to hold on i case it's repairable!! She's a nightmare that way, she probably won't even get someone to look at it!!
Bad joke about plasma leaking out.
Take it into your shed, and fiddle with it. At the worst, you've had the deep joy of taking really expensive things to bits. At best, you'll coax it back into life.
Repairs are generally expensive if you could get someone to look at it - other forums seem to indicate around £400 to investigate old plasmas.
Two things - you're not related to Emsman, are you, and be aware that the capacitors can hold charge for a good few days.
Take it into your shed, and fiddle with it. At the worst, you've had the deep joy of taking really expensive things to bits. At best, you'll coax it back into life.
Repairs are generally expensive if you could get someone to look at it - other forums seem to indicate around £400 to investigate old plasmas.
Two things - you're not related to Emsman, are you, and be aware that the capacitors can hold charge for a good few days.
randlemarcus said:
Bad joke about plasma leaking out.
Take it into your shed, and fiddle with it. At the worst, you've had the deep joy of taking really expensive things to bits. At best, you'll coax it back into life.
Repairs are generally expensive if you could get someone to look at it - other forums seem to indicate around £400 to investigate old plasmas.
Two things - you're not related to Emsman, are you, and be aware that the capacitors can hold charge for a good few days.
If it's knowt that Plasmas are expensive to repair I'll tell her to get a new one! I wasn't sure if there would have been a common part to fail that may have been economically viable to replace. Never mind, cheers!!!Take it into your shed, and fiddle with it. At the worst, you've had the deep joy of taking really expensive things to bits. At best, you'll coax it back into life.
Repairs are generally expensive if you could get someone to look at it - other forums seem to indicate around £400 to investigate old plasmas.
Two things - you're not related to Emsman, are you, and be aware that the capacitors can hold charge for a good few days.
Might not be expensive to repair, but it will be to get someone related to Phillips to look at it.
Google for it, and there's a few Av forum threads where they've brought them back to life with new capacitors, or power supplies, or plain old fiddling, but if you thought modern cars were bad for being disposable...
Do you have a proper local TV chappie near?
Google for it, and there's a few Av forum threads where they've brought them back to life with new capacitors, or power supplies, or plain old fiddling, but if you thought modern cars were bad for being disposable...
Do you have a proper local TV chappie near?
randlemarcus said:
Might not be expensive to repair, but it will be to get someone related to Phillips to look at it.
Google for it, and there's a few Av forum threads where they've brought them back to life with new capacitors, or power supplies, or plain old fiddling, but if you thought modern cars were bad for being disposable...
Do you have a proper local TV chappie near?
I'll have a look on google.Google for it, and there's a few Av forum threads where they've brought them back to life with new capacitors, or power supplies, or plain old fiddling, but if you thought modern cars were bad for being disposable...
Do you have a proper local TV chappie near?
I'm not too sure about a local repair man, it's something I've never needed in recent years. There used to be a guy when I was a kid my Dad used but I'd be surprised if he's still on the go!!
I would scrap it. Even though she most likely paid £1500 -£2000 for it 5 years ago, a new Panasonic 50X20 could be had for not a lot more than the potential repair cost. I would've thought also that a replacement panel would no longer be available. We have just swapped out a 50" Samsung at 3 years old [ Samsung were good enough to do it FOC] with the same symptoms.
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