[TechAssist] Re: Philips 36H800 again
- From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:07:18 -0500
I think I would agree with you. The Philips I have had in this year have all
been a waste of money and time for me and created an unhappy customer too
boot.
Have you read the post by Chris Carter over on Repair World today?
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH
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Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Philips 36H800 again
>I had the exact problem on the same model about 8-9 months ago, to fix it
>we
> ended up replacing the ssb.
> I think Phillips is junk along with most other new technology as far as
> serviceability goes.
> Robert
> tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> H & H Electronics Inc
> http://supertek.igniteinc.biz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:15 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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