Comments on: Blown Power Supply on Philips Plasma http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/ Recycled ideas, news, and tidbits Wed, 02 May 2012 20:19:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ejd http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1347 ejd Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:26:43 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1347 JT - thank you so much for your post. Not only did you save me a lot of money but you also saved me a lot time. Much appreciated! JT – thank you so much for your post. Not only did you save me a lot of money but you also saved me a lot time. Much appreciated!

]]> By: Joe AZ http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1343 Joe AZ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:33:17 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1343 Link below is to a news article that came out today where Samsung was forced into settling a class action lawsuit for the exact same issue: http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/24/samsung-to-pay-millions-in-class-action-settlement-over-faulty-tvs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28BGR+%7C+Boy+Genius+Report%29 Link below is to a news article that came out today where Samsung was forced into settling a class action lawsuit for the exact same issue:

http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/24/samsung-to-pay-millions-in-class-action-settlement-over-faulty-tvs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28BGR+%7C+Boy+Genius+Report%29

]]> By: Linh http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1341 Linh Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:36:55 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1341 Thanks, my TV had the same problem, following your instructions and my TV got fix. it saved a lot of money . Awesome! Thanks, my TV had the same problem, following your instructions and my TV got fix. it saved a lot of money . Awesome!

]]> By: Paul http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1340 Paul Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:46:39 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1340 Just a note of thanks again to Arun for giving me the specs on his blown caps and the author of this bog for getting the word out about this easy fix. I ordered the ones he told me to and when we pulled the back off of the TV, it was the same ones damaged. TV is running great now. I often wonder how many TVs are getting tossed in the dump with this cheap repair problem? If a guy worked in a recycling depot he could probably own a second had TV store fixing blown caps on peoples throw away TVs. My father in law had brought his to a repair place and it came on for the technician so he said there was nothing wrong with it and charged him $65 for turning it on. We're baffled he wasn't aware of this issue when a quick google search will bring up all kinds of cases. He was ready to go buy a new TV and ditch his Plasma but I told him to check the caps before he did since my samsung did the same and we fixed it. Just a note of thanks again to Arun for giving me the specs on his blown caps and the author of this bog for getting the word out about this easy fix. I ordered the ones he told me to and when we pulled the back off of the TV, it was the same ones damaged. TV is running great now.
I often wonder how many TVs are getting tossed in the dump with this cheap repair problem? If a guy worked in a recycling depot he could probably own a second had TV store fixing blown caps on peoples throw away TVs. My father in law had brought his to a repair place and it came on for the technician so he said there was nothing wrong with it and charged him $65 for turning it on. We’re baffled he wasn’t aware of this issue when a quick google search will bring up all kinds of cases. He was ready to go buy a new TV and ditch his Plasma but I told him to check the caps before he did since my samsung did the same and we fixed it.

]]> By: Yesville http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1338 Yesville Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:35:45 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1338 This is great, I did what it said replace capacitor now the tv Orkney great. Easy to do found a electrical shop they had the parts $5.00 buck each and soldered it for $5 bucks each. Tv repaired for $20.00, the hardest part was taking off the back of the cabinet had a lot of screws and you will need a star screw driver, otherwise took about 2 hours total and I have been quoted at least $160. From tv repairman. Thanks this is a great blog This is great, I did what it said replace capacitor now the tv Orkney great. Easy to do found a electrical shop they had the parts $5.00 buck each and soldered it for $5 bucks each. Tv repaired for $20.00, the hardest part was taking off the back of the cabinet had a lot of screws and you will need a star screw driver, otherwise took about 2 hours total and I have been quoted at least $160. From tv repairman. Thanks this is a great blog

]]> By: Paul http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1336 Paul Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:19:42 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1336 Thanks so much for the info Arun! I think I'll go ahead and order the caps on the chance our identical problem is with the same caps. Thanks so much for the info Arun! I think I’ll go ahead and order the caps on the chance our identical problem is with the same caps.

]]> By: Arun http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1335 Arun Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:56:18 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1335 Hi Paul, I had to replace 2 caps - a 1000uF 16V (10mm diameter, 22mm height, 5mm lead spacing) and a 680uF 50V (12mm diameter, 26mm height, 5mm lead spacing). They were aluminium caps and I ordered them from digi-key (http://www.digikey.com/). Given the thousands of caps / types of caps out there, I didn't bother finding them myself - just took advantage of the live chat support available at DigiKey. Good luck!! -Arun. Hi Paul,

I had to replace 2 caps – a 1000uF 16V (10mm diameter, 22mm height, 5mm lead spacing) and a 680uF 50V (12mm diameter, 26mm height, 5mm lead spacing). They were aluminium caps and I ordered them from digi-key (http://www.digikey.com/). Given the thousands of caps / types of caps out there, I didn’t bother finding them myself – just took advantage of the live chat support available at DigiKey. Good luck!!

-Arun.

]]> By: Paul http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1334 Paul Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:23:28 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1334 Hello Arun My father inlaw has the same model with the same issue. We did a similar repair with our Samsung TV with great success. I was wondering if you could tell me how many capacitors you had to replace and what the specs for them were. They live far from us but I'd love to take a bag of capacitors and my soldering gun with me to fix it when we go. Theres a good chance we'd have the same capacitors cooked as you. Thanks Paul Hello Arun

My father inlaw has the same model with the same issue. We did a similar repair with our Samsung TV with great success. I was wondering if you could tell me how many capacitors you had to replace and what the specs for them were. They live far from us but I’d love to take a bag of capacitors and my soldering gun with me to fix it when we go. Theres a good chance we’d have the same capacitors cooked as you.

Thanks
Paul

]]> By: Barry http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1318 Barry Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:04:53 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1318 Success with my 50". Philips plasma, even though mine started with loss of sound then moved on to not switching on, with flashing gren light not red, I opened it up and low and behold 2 blown caps as described above, €6 on eBay, a mate inserted them and I just placed back in the board and fired up straight away..... :-) thanks JT and everyone else who left a post Success with my 50″. Philips plasma, even though mine started with loss of sound then moved on to not switching on, with flashing gren light not red, I opened it up and low and behold 2 blown caps as described above, €6 on eBay, a mate inserted them and I just placed back in the board and fired up straight away….. :-) thanks JT and everyone else who left a post

]]> By: Arun http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/comment-page-4/#comment-1317 Arun Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:18:43 +0000 http://recycledpapyr.us/2009/03/26/blown-power-supply-on-philips-plasma/#comment-1317 Very informative post, thank you!! I have a very similar problem but on a different model (42PFP5332D/37) - the front light stays blue but the TV keeps clicking away and never turns on. And you can see a green LED flashing inside the tv. I do suspect its the same problem though - found a couple of blown caps. Couple of questions - 1) I presume you had to unscrew the power board to replace the caps, correct? 2) Doing so merely involves removing the screws and all the connectors plugged into the board? Very informative post, thank you!!

I have a very similar problem but on a different model (42PFP5332D/37) – the front light stays blue but the TV keeps clicking away and never turns on. And you can see a green LED flashing inside the tv. I do suspect its the same problem though – found a couple of blown caps. Couple of questions –
1) I presume you had to unscrew the power board to replace the caps, correct?
2) Doing so merely involves removing the screws and all the connectors plugged into the board?

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