07-10-2008, 08:38 PM
A few months ago my month old 50" Panasonic Plasma somehow got fried. No picture, no light, no sound. Dead. If it wasn't so darn big and heavy i would've returned it to Costco for an exchange or refund. I decided to try out their warranty service. If in the end i wasn't 100% happy with the results, i'll just reurn it.
The guy who came over lived about an hour away. Owned his own repair shop. I guess he was the go-to guy for Panasonic in my area. He says he get's enough business to keep him busy.
He rotated the plasma around and unscrewed about (no joke) 30 screws of varying lengths and widths, putting them all in a neat pile. He takes off the back of the TV and I see the inner workings. It's a mess of wires, fans, circuit boards, processors, more cables, and doo-dads. It looked like a computer back there.
He unplugs a squarish circuit board from the brackets, moved some wires out of the way and swaps it out for a new one. Puts the back in place screws in all the screws back in. And voila the TV is working again. Bad power supply or something.
These repair guys will have tons of business for years to come. Swap out a part and make a few hundred bucks.
The guy who came over lived about an hour away. Owned his own repair shop. I guess he was the go-to guy for Panasonic in my area. He says he get's enough business to keep him busy.
He rotated the plasma around and unscrewed about (no joke) 30 screws of varying lengths and widths, putting them all in a neat pile. He takes off the back of the TV and I see the inner workings. It's a mess of wires, fans, circuit boards, processors, more cables, and doo-dads. It looked like a computer back there.
He unplugs a squarish circuit board from the brackets, moved some wires out of the way and swaps it out for a new one. Puts the back in place screws in all the screws back in. And voila the TV is working again. Bad power supply or something.
These repair guys will have tons of business for years to come. Swap out a part and make a few hundred bucks.