[TechAssist] Re: Philips 36H800 again
- From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:17:41 -0500
Thanks Phil, I'm beginning to feel more confidant about a board replacement.
Now if I can get him to go for it.
But ----- if he does, and there are more problems, I'm a dead man.
If I survive this one, do I get a Combat Infantry Badge?
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip R. Hull" <phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Philips 36H800 again
> Replace the board, I never had that diode repair a set for me, so I quit
> even trying to replace it.
> Phillip R Hull
> phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:15 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Philips 36H800 again
>
>
>> Does anyone have anything else to suggest?
>> Here's what I've done:
>>
>> I've replaced the diode on the SSB that Force says to replace for a dead
>> set.
>> Twice!
>> I've resoldered the connector on the mother board.
>> I've cleaned the connector and the board edge.
>>
>> The first time I replaced the diode the set ran several days in the shop,
> so
>> I sent it home.
>> He says it ran a few hours and quit.
>> He brought it back and I replaced the diode again and ran it for a day
> then
>> it quit on the 2nd day.
>> I dipped into the list again and got several more suggestions, which I
> did,
>> then ran it for several days in the shop and let him take it home again.
>>
>> He called this afternoon to tell me it ran about a half hour for him
> before
>> quitting again.
>> He is getting tired of getting someone to help him lug it up and down a
>> flight of stairs and put it up on the shelf.
>> I'm getting tired of fixing something that just keeps going bad again.
>>
>> He wasn't willing to go for an SSB in the first place and I'm not willing
> to
>> buy one now, only to end up with the same problem.
>> Right now I only have $129 that I may have to give back. I sure don't
>> want
>> to expand that to $500 that I have to give back and end up owning an SSB
>> that I will never use because I will certainly never take in another one
> of
>> these sets again.
>>
>> I don't know what kind of deal he's willing to make for me not fixing his
>> TV. He's in the auto repair business so he should be happy to just junk
>> it
>> with no refund. Usually when one of them works on something of mine that
>> isn't getting fixed, they call and say: the mechanic has 2 hours on it
>> already and hasn't found the problem. The labor is $120 now, do want me
>> to
>> have him keep going?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Russ Hoyt
>> Hoyt's TV
>> Exeter, NH
>>
>>
>>
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