Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Maxent 42" Plasma fix

My cousin wanted me to look at his 42" Plasma tv but I told him I never looked at one before buy I would give it a try. He said they were watching it and heard a loud pop and nothing. My first instinct was bad power supply. Upon opening it up, I looked everywhere and didn't see anything burnt up. The only thing I found was a fuse blown in the power supply, replaced it and it would come on for a few sec. then go off turning the light orange and clicking a couple of times. Hit the power again then the light is green but no clicking or anything. I looked through forums and blogs and they said to replace the YSUS board. I never tried fixing them before so I went with what I read and got the board and nothing. It still did the same shit. I got ahold of the ebay seller, who was awesome enough to let me return the board and I paid a little extra for a power supply since it cost more then the YSUS board. I got the power supply in and took off the old one to find a black spot on the casing and 2 or 3 diodes that litterally exploded on the back of the board. I put the board in and connected all the wires and it came on perfectly. Not bad for never working on a plasma tv before.

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