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By Jestine Yong on November 12, 2019

I received the above television from a customer who wanted it repaired.

First with the customer present I connected the TV to the power outlet and noted the TV was as dead as dodo.

From my experience totally dead equipment without any sign of life are caused by power supply failure and usually repair is straight forward considering that power supply section has very few components and testing one by one is not a hustle.

I opened the television and I went straight to the power supply section and started scanning with my two free test equipment called eyes.

Since the television was totally dead, I started with the safely components and looking at the main fuse I noted it was darkened inside.

A darkened fuse means the fuse died under heavy stress and therefore never replace a darkened fuse and apply power since it will surely blow again.

Therefore, whenever you see a darkened fuse expect heavy short ahead and main culprit are components which have one leg on the live line and ground.

So I pulled my meter in continuity mode and tested across the switching transistor (S.O.T) between the middle leg(collector) and the emitter and got a beep either way.

This confirmed the transistor was dead short, I continued checking and found the surge limiter resistor was also open.

Next I checked the S.O.T driver transistor 2SC3807 and found it shorted base – emitter junction.

Kindly note that whenever you find the switching transistor shorted (S.O.T) it is almost certain this drive transistor also has suffered a lot of stress and should be replaced otherwise chances of call back are high.

After replacing the four components now it is time to test the progress so far and therefore I connected the television to the power source via series lamp current limiter.

You can easily make one using the circuit here.

After applying the power, I noted the bulb was bright then dim and this confirmed to me no more shorted component on the supply.

Before connected the power directly without the current limiter I decided to do a postmortem of what exactly was the cause of this short as there was no power surge in the area and the customer confirmed that the kids were watching the TV when it went down.

So I decided to test health of all main filter capacitors using my ESR meter and I bumped on one capacitor on the B+ line rated 4.7 uF/160 V which has an ESR reading of 0.15K (150 ohms)

Usually when a capacitor ESR has gone up the voltage on that line drops and since the B+ line is highly monitored, means the feedback circuit kicks in and advice the primary source to increase the voltage (drive fast) and this caused the S.O.T transistor to overdrive and hence short causing a series of other damages to the primary side of the power supply.

So in case I failed to do further investigation and found the root cause of this problem then it means it would just a matter of time before the television goes down again.

With that sorted now it’s time to power up the TV and the television came up beautifully and to my surprise the TV had no audio(sound)

So back again to troubleshooting this time the audio circuit and this tv was using ic AN7522N.

Searched its datasheet from the net and this what I got. Confirmed VCC pin is pin1.

I did live testing and I got zero voltage on pin1, I checked backward looking for what could be blocking this voltage and found resistor (R465) open.

I checked if the I.C was shorted by testing between pin 1 and ground and was found to be okay.

I replaced the open resistor which I picked from a junk board and applied power and noted the voltage 12 volts to the audio circuit is stable, this confirmed there is no short on that line and finally I re-assembled everything and after applying the power I noticed the audio was now back.

Later the customer came to collect the television and confirmed to me that audio was also a problem but had connected the TV via woofer to solve the audio issue and now was very happy to hear the audio is back.

Thanks you friends

Stay safe.

Humphrey Kimathi is from Nairobi Kenya and the author of

1) Lcd-Led television repair guide

2) DVD Player repair guide,

3) CRT Television repair course and

4) Basic Electronics course.

He is also a blogger at Electronicsrepairmadeasy.com

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Parasuraman S

November 12, 2019 at 9:31 pm

You are a professional gem and I enjoy reading your descriptive articles. Well done and many thanks!

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- Humphrey Mndaka
  
  November 14, 2019 at 3:31 pm
  
  Thanks and welcome Parasuraman.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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Devon Wilson

November 12, 2019 at 11:46 pm

I like the methodology employed in getting the job done.

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- Humphrey Mndaka
  
  November 14, 2019 at 3:32 pm
  
  Thanks for your feedback Wilson.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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Albert van Bemmelen

November 12, 2019 at 11:47 pm

Pro job with nicely detailed pictures in the article. What will we do when the old Glow bulbs no longer exist?
We have to find an electronic circuit without bulb for that in the near future.
PS: I got this "Sorry, that didn’t work.
Please try again or come back later.
500 Error. Internal Server Error", through the Electronics for beginners ebook picture?

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- Humphrey Mndaka
  
  November 14, 2019 at 3:36 pm
  
  Just got error 500 and forgot what I was about to say.. Hahaha.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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Gcouture

November 13, 2019 at 1:19 am

I like the way you identify the bad components. Very professional job.

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- Humphrey Mndaka
  
  November 14, 2019 at 3:37 pm
  
  Thanks for your feedback Gcouture
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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Raj

November 13, 2019 at 7:18 am

Excellent. thanks for sharing

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- Humphrey Mndaka
  
  November 14, 2019 at 3:39 pm
  
  Welcome Raj.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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beh

November 13, 2019 at 11:08 am

CONGRATULATIONS.

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Robert Calk Jr.

November 13, 2019 at 5:57 pm

Good job, Humphrey!

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jose carlo

November 14, 2019 at 3:06 am

congratulations

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abdellah kamli

November 14, 2019 at 5:03 am

Analytical article, well illustrated and instructive with schematics and precious advices.Thank you Humphrey and greetings.

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- Humphrey
  
  November 14, 2019 at 8:22 pm
  
  Greetings from Kenya Abdellah and thank you very much for your feedback.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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Yogesh Panchal

November 14, 2019 at 3:20 pm

God Job! Sir

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- Humphrey
  
  November 14, 2019 at 8:20 pm
  
  Thank you sir Panchal.
  
  Regards Humphrey
  
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shaddy

November 15, 2019 at 5:29 pm

hi Humphrey,
i am new to this field and am also in Nairobi.
would you mind me asking where do you buy your replacement components??
i.e shop name and location?? thanks
i love your articles

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- Humphrey
  
  November 16, 2019 at 4:54 pm
  
  Hi Shaddy,
  Glad to meet you Shaddy, there are so many shops selling spares in Nairobi and my favorite is Sagana electronics in terms of quick service. for hard to find components i usually import them from ebay or aliexpress. if you have any problem importing hard to find component i can assist you.
  
  regards Humphrey
  
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  - shaddy
    
    November 17, 2019 at 5:24 pm
    
    thanks humphrey.. how do i get in touch for the importing process from aliexpress & ebay???
    
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    - Humphrey
      
      November 18, 2019 at 1:15 am
      
      Click on my name on this message and will direct you to my blog where you can get my contact.
      
      Regards Humphrey
      
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  - shaddy
    
    November 17, 2019 at 7:54 pm
    
    thanks humprey.
    
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Gary Gemmell

December 26, 2019 at 11:21 am

Pro active repairmen - you dont see many of those in the UK today most will just do basic repair and hope tv will fail again for more money!

Well done Humphrey!

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