Fault finding

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SaladFingers

I have a lovely Philips 32pw9586 tv. It's a piece of furniture of a telly, not just your usual grey box. Anyway, it's broken and I don't want to buy one of those thin tv's that look 'orrible.

Can someone point me in the direction where I could find some information about fixing it? I know there's dangerous voltages inside, I'm an electrician chap, so I know how to practise safely, just where to start would be an idea I'm after.

Last time I switched it on, a strange gurgle came from the speakers and that was it.

Thanks.
 
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Pull it open and start looking for broken things. Start at the power supply.
 
The only way to fix TV's is really to swap boards. The idea of using an oscilloscope to trace faults is long gone. So only some one with spare boards on the shelf can really repair it. So in the main it's a send back to manufacturer to get it repaired.

If you had a hotel and 50 of the sets then you may be able to rob Peter to pay Paul but with just one TV forget it.
 
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ericmark said:
The only way to fix TV's is really to swap boards. The idea of using an oscilloscope to trace faults is long gone. So only some one with spare boards on the shelf can really repair it. So in the main it's a send back to manufacturer to get it repaired.
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... That really depends on the fault. Which has not been established.

There are many faults in TVs which can be repaired with little more than the naked eye and a soldering iron. You don't know until you look.
 
ericmark said:
The only way to fix TV's is really to swap boards. The idea of using an oscilloscope to trace faults is long gone.
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Well, if you want to come down to component level to the detail of looking at a spec which shows test points and what you'd be measuring in terms of waveforms, then perhaps not.
 
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