dacflyer wrote:well i decided to dig out my variable power supply out and inject power where it was missing,, i belive the set is brain dead..
so no use of beating a dead horse any longer.. i gave up {:>(
thanks to all who gave their tips.. the set going to the scrap pile..well the board is anyway...rest goes to the dump..
Oh, Well....
Eleven years out of a Television is pretty good, considering that most TV's
are expected to only last Five years at the most.
dacflyer wrote:
janitor >> " This is also true for monitors as well.
I had to junk a 18" GateWay LCD monitor just because the Back Light Inverter Board was bad.
I could get a Replacement Board, but after cost of the board, shipping & my labor.
It was about $200.00 Total.
{About the cost of a new LCD monitor.}
I could of gone and got a schematic, and repaired the inverter board.
If one was available from Gateway.
But I would run into the same problem of getting parts for it. "
ever thought to try just a generic CCFT inverter to run the backlight ?
they can be gotten for little or nothing,, i have salvaged so many from old scanners and even have bought them for as little as $10.00
just a thought...
Yeah, I looked into getting some generic CCFT inverters.
But saw that the monitor had three CCFT's, thus three inverters.
Plus, these are run by a controller IC on the inverter board.
Thou, I was talking to a friend in the surplus recycling business.
He had several of the gateway monitors come in that had this same problem.
I asked him why he didn't try to repair them.
His reply was simple.
To much time and money.
He explained that for it to be worth his while to repair them.
He would need at least 20 that were all the same make and Model.
But even then, the re-sale of the used monitors wouldn't make up much of a profit.
Signed: Janitor Tzap