** That 4M7 resistor protects the SMPS tranny from insulation breakdown due
to a high static voltage building up on the antenna in dry, windy weather.
It's a specially rated part for the job.
Class 2 rules allow it.
.... Phil
Clean it WELL with something like Simple Green. Use a toothbrush
and get it out from between chip pins, under chips, inside via holes.
Blow it dry and clean it again.
Then do it twice with high-concentration alcohol, like the 99% stuff
you can get a the drugstore.
Then dry it as hot as you can without breaking the parts.
150F is reasonable.
Of course, you need to remove or protect any parts that can't get wet.
Good luck.
** De-natured alcohol " (Methylated Spirits ) works fines to.
As do most PCB cleaner sprays.
> Then dry it as hot as you can without breaking the parts.
> 150F is reasonable.
** 150C is highly unreasonable.
It will destroy electros, melt some plastics and harm some semis.
100C should be the absolute limit.
70C will do the job quickly.
... Phil
Is all C electrolyte corrossive? This looks like cod liver oil in colour and
texture , with no hint of corrossion on any surface it is laying on.
> Is all C electrolyte corrosive?
** Yes.
It is also conductive - which can be a bit of a worry around electronics.
.... Phil
>
>"mike"
>>
>> Clean it WELL with something like Simple Green. Use a toothbrush
>> and get it out from between chip pins, under chips, inside via holes.
>> Blow it dry and clean it again.
>> Then do it twice with high-concentration alcohol, like the 99% stuff
>> you can get a the drugstore.
>
>** De-natured alcohol " (Methylated Spirits ) works fines to.
>
> As do most PCB cleaner sprays.
>
>
>> Then dry it as hot as you can without breaking the parts.
>> 150F is reasonable.
^
>** 150C is highly unreasonable.
Indeed. But that's not what Mike said.
** Fair enough.
Guess us engineering types are not used to seeing obsolete Fahrenheit temps
used in electronics.
Boiling water = 212 F
Freezing water = -32F
and paper burns at Fahrenheit 451 ....
.... Phil
pH of 5 this yellow oily stuff, not conductive as far as paper soaked in it
, 0.5mm probe tip separation and >30M
> pH of 5 this yellow oily stuff, not conductive as far as paper soaked in
> it
> , 0.5mm probe tip separation and >30M
** What you have there sonny is " Ethylene Glycol" - ie what remains of
the electrolyte after all the water has boiled off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol
" Ethylene glycol (IUPAC name: ethane-1,2-diol) is an organic compound
widely used as an automotive antifreeze and a precursor to polymers. In its
pure form, it is an odourless, colourless, syrupy, sweet-tasting liquid.
Ethylene glycol is toxic, and ingestion can result in death. "
Without any water, it is a non conductor.
But don't worry, it will absorb it from the air on any humid day.
Taste sweet does it ..............
.... Phil
Will you stop trying to impersonate Phil - you're no good at it anyway.
Sylvia.
Phil Allison wrote:
> "JW"
> "Phil Allison"
> >"mike"
> >
> >>> Then dry it as hot as you can without breaking the parts.
> >>> 150F is reasonable.
> > ^
> >>** 150C is highly unreasonable.
> >
> > Indeed. But that's not what Mike said.
>
>
> ** Fair enough.
>
> Guess us engineering types are not used to seeing obsolete Fahrenheit temps
> used in electronics.
Eliminate the Celcius/Fahrenheit confusion by maintaining everything
at -40C, AKA -40F.
FWIW, probably true for most here...but the few GOOD engineering
types READ what is written instead of jumping
to conclusions and mouthing off with "that" tone of superiority.
** And the rest of the civilised world has them calibrated in degrees C.
> FWIW, probably true for most here...but the few GOOD engineering
> types READ what is written ..
** See my explanation above - fuckhead.
> instead of jumping
> to conclusions and mouthing off with "that" tone of superiority.
** Take your hand off it - wanker.
... Phil
--
Cheers,
WB
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Cleaned the main board with meths , dried for an hour or so and same
symptoms.
Cleaned the ps and inverter board , dried for only 10 minutes and ps went
into protect.
Dried with hot air and pic flashed up for 1/10 sec or so. Concentrated
heating on the 6 inch long strip of isolated track along the pcb edge to one
of the backlight connectors and now about 1/3 second. Previously about 1
second when I eceived the TV.
Agrees with the owner in that when this problem fisst appeared someone
technical decided to run a hair drier in the top and it ran perfectly on for
a week or so.
Yesterday I picked up at a hamfest a range of 1G to 1T ohm resistors
coincidently. I reckon its a glass fibre osmotic problem and HV , like I've
seen on scope tripler/quint boards over the years.
Will try cutting those long lines and HV cable bridged there instead.
There must be another control line back from the inverter protect system,
back to the main control and then back out to the backlight control to the
inverter.
If this is the failure mechanism then presumably a generic problem for this
sort of long pcb trace to a backlight connector and then cable proper.
Will have to see if there are reports of this problem and delve into
backlight inverter control a bit more.
Again generally, comparing a 15 inch LCD TV to 30 inch. Obviously the
inverter and lights would be x4 power but would anything else in the
electronics be much different?
** Quote:
" LCD TV SMPS LV C vented electrolyte, "
What Low Voltage Cap was that - eh ??????
You fucking LIED to us - AGAIN !!!!!!
You FUCKING MORON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... Phil
I've seen decades old Tek equipment that still operated fine, although not
as accurately as a freshly calibrated instrument, still perfectly
operational.
If this TV gets recycled, in several decades it will have already been
numerous pieces of cheaply made consumer crap, sold over 'n over again to
somewhat senseless consumers (or it could end up in some space program or
national defense weapons equipment).
--
Cheers,
WB
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