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| Thread ID: 100007 | 2009-05-22 22:29:00 | LCD TV Problem! Please Help!! | mark1978 (13845) | PC World Chat |
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| 776069 | 2009-05-22 22:29:00 | Hi Guys, we have a Panasonic (TX32LX80A) LCD TV.Sometimes (now and then)when we turn the TV on, you can hear the sound but no picture, after 3 to 4 seconds the TV decides to turn itself off and the red standby light will flicker! If you do not turn the TV off again it will stay in this mode and the red light keeps flickering, when you turn the TV off and then after 5 seconds on again it will operate fine again. At the moment it is at a service centre to be checked out but they have not seen the fault happen yet. (which I find very surprising!) This morning I was thinking that maybe it does this sometimes because I have too many appliances on one power board? I have 6 including the TV in there. 1 tv 2 dvd players a lamp and a digital photo frame and a heater that is on standy but sometimes on. (The heater just been added but the fault happened before the heater was added.) Any comments, ideas's, suggestions welcome! |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 776070 | 2009-05-23 00:45:00 | If there was too much on that circuit then the breaker would trip. Something is definitely wrong with the TV. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 776071 | 2009-05-23 01:04:00 | Hey thanks for your reply, your right it must be the TV, I let them sort it out what it could be..cheers | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 776072 | 2009-05-23 03:07:00 | I'd put the heater on a different circuit from sensitive electronics anyway. If the heater was constantly on, it'd be no problem, but cycling on and off will be causing peaks and troughs in the power to your other gear. Even though a seperate circuit does not eliminate these issues, it does lessen the intensity of them. If I didn't know better though, I'd think your TV was running Windows! Although - it may not be such a dumb idea - there are operating systems being used in all manner of stuff these days. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 776073 | 2009-05-24 08:07:00 | Alas many of the thrift grade power strips are of dubious quality and will sometimes give intermittent connection when traumatic events like a nearby goldfish doing a u-turn, kids dropping pins to see if the room is quiet, or other vibrations occur. Trying the TV without the power strip might be a simple test if it is returned "no fault found". :badpc: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 776074 | 2009-05-24 09:33:00 | Alas many of the thrift grade power strips are of dubious quality and will sometimes give intermittent connection when traumatic events like a nearby goldfish doing a u-turn, kids dropping pins to see if the room is quiet, or other vibrations occur. Trying the TV without the power strip might be a simple test if it is returned "no fault found". :badpc: Yip Elto are the worst, stay away from there multi boards, shocking |
radium (8645) | ||
| 776075 | 2009-05-24 21:16:00 | Never put a heater on a power board, leastwise not unless your fire insurance is fully paid up and your personal treasures are stored off-site. Always plug it directly into the wall socket. You might (just) get away with a 500W heater, but 1000W or 2000W will fry just about any powerboard in time, but it is amazing that the light-weight cheapies they sell today last five minutes! If you looked inside one you'd weep! The power solid plug pins on my 2000W fan heater get warm in a good powerpoint! After a few hundred hours in a powerboard the flimsy contacts inside will be ready to toast you. Cheers Billy 8-{) :eek: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 776076 | 2009-05-24 22:39:00 | Yep Billy is right I had F&P 400 washing machine with water heater and garage door opener on powerboard and it melted like butter in the sun. Plus my dragon lady got a new cordless phone ( replace so called faulty one) and plugged the new one in and hello no power either. It was bad contact on power board put plug in socket next to to it ok. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 776077 | 2009-05-25 05:57:00 | Hi Guys, Thank you all for your reply's! I got the TV back today, fault not found (which I still find absolutely hilarious!...anyway!) I bought one of those power boards at Dick Smith, the heater is removed and only have the TV and 2 DVD players and the sky box on the board, everything works so far, the fault has not displayed itself yet. (thank goodness) The technicians said to give them a call in a week and if the fault is still present they will re-look at it. (I probably tape it to have PROOF this time!) I hope with this power surge board the problem has gone.. will post if it happens again! |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
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