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Offline Mustaine

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Projection TV weirdness...
« on: June 12, 2008, 09:05:18 PM »
Anyone got a possible answer to this?

I thought I posted about this before but can't find it...

so I got it free as a hand me down, 55" beast of a thing it's HUGE and heavy. It worked for about 3 weeks, then pop, nothing. I'd power it on, you'd rear some relays or something snap back and forth, then no picture. For a day or 2 I could unplug it,then plug it back in, relays click, and it would work, then finally nothing.

I gave up, looked online a but and repairs sounded way too $$$. It has been just sitting there in my living room to the side a bit, plugged in, hoping...

Tonight we had a huge storm, bigger than the last few here in WI, and while making some green beans in the microwave the power went out for a good 30 seconds. Once it came back on and my green beans finished cooking I went to the living room.... I was looking at a 55" screen of snow!  :O  :rock I quickly tuned to the cable input (svideo) and viola!  :rock :rock

The power has popped 2 other times tonight and it came right back up. I was timid to risk it, but I programmed the universal cable remote, and good to go, power on / off / all works.

 :huh

Anyone got an idea what might have been wrong? It is plugged into a surge suppressor, has been the whole time.
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Re: Projection TV weirdness...
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2008, 09:47:14 PM »
Thats pretty bizarre unless the power flicker was just enough to forcefully reset something in the tv

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Re: Projection TV weirdness...
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2008, 09:59:08 PM »


must have been the electrical equivalent of banging on it with a monkey wrench to fix it.... :aok

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Re: Projection TV weirdness...
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2008, 10:54:51 PM »
Sounds like the power supply's getting kinda dim. My desktop computer is the same way, except it stays dead until you shock it.
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Re: Projection TV weirdness...
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2008, 11:03:36 PM »
I agree it's a funked power supply. Those old projection sets are notorious for burning them out.
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