[TriLUG] Samsung LED Flatscreen repair?

[Jeremy Davis]

Thanks, this was an excellent video! Good website too, I ended up on their
site for a while watching some of their other videos about HD stuff. By the
way, let me share my living room entertainment system setup that I have been
very happy with. A Samsung 55" LED flatscreen that hangs on the wall like a
photo frame, Mac mini (for DVD, Streaming Netflix 7.99 per month (no cable),
and internet), then last but not least a Bose Wave radio for the sound
system. Almost accidentally this turned out to be a very clean but powerful
setup with just a couple wires easy to hide. Helps achieve Feng shui.

I called Samsung after it went out and I got a quote from one of their
service technicians yesterday. $400 to replace the power supply component.
If the second component needed replacement too it would be an extra $135.  I
said no thanks.

So now I know how to make an easy $400 per hour based on the responses to
this topic. I am tempted to throw up a Wordpress site and optimize it for
the keyword phrase "Samsung Flatscreen Repair".

Thanks everyone for all the great input. I would be happy to buy ya'll a
beer sometime.
Jeremy


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Paul Holzworth <pholz at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Here is a great video of the disassembly (destruction?) of a Samsung LCD
> TV.  They even take apart the LCD display layer by layer.
>
> http://revision3.com/hdnation/hdtv-dissection
>
> Paul
>
>
> >Thanks for all the great replies on this question! Looks like it shouldn't
> >be too bad to get this thing up and running again.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf
> >Of Neil L. Little
> >Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 12:31 PM
> >To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> >Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Samsung LED Flatscreen repair?
> >
> >Try this:
> >
> >
> http://www.hobbymods.com/Samsung%20tv%20power%20up%20problem%20relay%20click
> >ing.htm
> >
> >
> >Jeffrey Macko wrote:
> >> Samsung LCD TV's are really easy to repair.
> >>
> >> I've done two repairs in the past few months.  Both had the VGA
> connection
> >go bad (it was being used in a church where it is connected and
> disconnected
> >every week, the circuit board has little reinforcement and the board
> cracked
> >due to fatigue).
> >>
> >> Parts are available on eBay from people parting out ones with broken
> >LCD's.  I needed a tuner board. Samsung sold the board for about $200.
>  Ebay
> >$60.   Swap was all of about 10  minutes worth of work.
> >>
> >> Be sure to open the back and get the part number off the board, as
> Samsung
> >makes mid model parts changes.
> >>
> >> The insides of the Samsung LCD's have remarkably few parts:
> >>
> >> Tuner card, where the video sources plug in.
> >> Power supply board, where the power cord plugs in.
> >> Front panel connector, for the front buttons.
> >> LCD screen.
> >>
> >> There are a few ribbon cables between those parts for connections.
> >Overall it's not much harder than swapping a motherboard.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> --Jeffrey
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> >Behalf Of Jeremy Davis
> >> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:09 PM
> >> To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion'
> >> Subject: [TriLUG] Samsung LED Flatscreen repair?
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to fix a flat screen tv. I my daughter unplugged it
> >and plugged it back in. Now just clicks continuously but won't turn on.
> >>
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