Repair it yourself

This is a fix for the LG TV Plasma model 3500 and it will work for many other TV models. The screen tooks longer to turn on until it went completely off. I tried the hair drier trick that worked every now and then but it was getting worse anyway and it needed a fix. When the TV screen does not turn on it is 90% because of a power supply board problem. It may be the capacitors, or not. I took the cover off and there you can see the supply board on the left hooked to the main board. When I examined closely the supply board the capacitors were all right, so I turned the board around and repaired all the bad welds, there were seven or eight that looked bad. I really had a hard time with my soldering iron as it took about 5 minutes to heat every spot, I think it may be a faulty one but it did the job anyway and we can enjoy our TV back. This TV costed about 500 euros 4 years ago and to repair it today it has only costd me a few drops of soldering tin. And patience :) I am glad it ...

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