My arcade monitor skills have come in handy!

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So our 2007 Samsung plasma tv has been acting up lately. Will shut off here and there then won't come back on, just start clicking..

Clicking made me think of switching power supply.. Or a blown hot on a k7000 :)
Downloaded a flow chart on this make and model.. Unplugged each cable from the power supply and fired up just the ps.. Worked fine.. So one by one I reconnected each pcb while turning it on and off.

It was a loose connector! Seems as the change in temp, live in a 100+ year old home in New England.. Plus the tv is in front of a window.. Thinking that when it heated and cooled over time that might have loosened it up.. As this tv has sat in the same spot since I bought it..

Anyway.. I have to thank everyone in the hobby whom has helped me with monitor repair.. Because of you I can fix my own stuff and my wife actually thinks I'm pretty cool (today at least) for knowing how to do this shit.
 
I did the same thing about a year ago. Our bedroom tv went out and was only showing half a screen. I opened her up and looked up a couple of the suspect IC's datasheets. I found one that was a vertical deflection IC. Ordered one and popped it in and its been working ever since.
 
So our 2007 Samsung plasma tv has been acting up lately. Will shut off here and there then won't come back on, just start clicking..

Clicking made me think of switching power supply.. Or a blown hot on a k7000 :)
Downloaded a flow chart on this make and model.. Unplugged each cable from the power supply and fired up just the ps.. Worked fine.. So one by one I reconnected each pcb while turning it on and off.

It was a loose connector! Seems as the change in temp, live in a 100+ year old home in New England.. Plus the tv is in front of a window.. Thinking that when it heated and cooled over time that might have loosened it up.. As this tv has sat in the same spot since I bought it..

Anyway.. I have to thank everyone in the hobby whom has helped me with monitor repair.. Because of you I can fix my own stuff and my wife actually thinks I'm pretty cool (today at least) for knowing how to do this shit.

This is off topic, but you have no idea how much you helped me by saying that a blown hot on a k7000 clicks. Thank you for that.
 
Samsung are the only brand of plasmas/LCD/LED tvs that I haven't seen at our local recycling yard yet.. Plus this is the first hiccup in 7 years!
 
This is off topic, but you have no idea how much you helped me by saying that a blown hot on a k7000 clicks. Thank you for that.
On many chassis a blown HOT causes the SMPS to make a clicking sound. Of course other components can short out and cause this as well, but the HOT is the first thing to check.
 
Samsung are the only brand of plasmas/LCD/LED tvs that I haven't seen at our local recycling yard yet.. Plus this is the first hiccup in 7 years!

Pfff my Philips TVs all were replaced simply because "going out of fashion" meaning switching from 4:3 to 16:9 and they lasted "forever", I mean they were still playing after at least 10 years of use. OK those were still produced in Europe and CRT TVs :)

7 years is a good age for plasma/LCD AFAIK and I was just teasing about Samsung my friend :)...have no idea what is good (lasting) quality and what not these days.

My current LED TV is still a Philips, but I'm very aware it was probably made in a Chinese factory ..I just like the way Philips stuff is operated, they think about logical set-up of the remote and menu's.
 
Pfff my Philips TVs all were replaced simply because "going out of fashion" meaning switching from 4:3 to 16:9 and they lasted "forever", I mean they were still playing after at least 10 years of use. OK those were still produced in Europe and CRT TVs :)

7 years is a good age for plasma/LCD AFAIK and I was just teasing about Samsung my friend :)...have no idea what is good (lasting) quality and what not these days.

My current LED TV is still a Philips, but I'm very aware it was probably made in a Chinese factory ..I just like the way Philips stuff is operated, they think about logical set-up of the remote and menu's.

My Mitsubishi tube-tv is around 22 years old now and still looks as good as the day I got it. The salesman at the time said it would last forever and look fantastic the whole time -- I didn't take him seriously back then but I do now! :) This thing is probably going to outlive me. LOL.

The tuner just stopped functioning in my LCD TV in my kitchen; wish a loose connection were somehow responsible for that.
 
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