"-Almazick-" wrote in message
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Thanks for your response but it's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking
for help and to point me to the right direction. If I wanted to give it
to service I would done it a long time ago but that's no fun at all.
That's the idea to learn it and do it yourself. Also If I had no idea
what I was doing I wouldn't even touch it but I've done in the past couple
of projects creating PCB and making IC to work. It's all about fun and
enjoying what you are doing. This is diy electronics repair forum and
people expect to get help to solve the problem not to create another one
just like you advised it and please next time stay on the subject and
don't create another one.



It is a nice idea that you would like to fix it yourself, but I have to say
that the advice that you were given by Tech Data, in this case, was valid
for your own safety, if nothing else. Modern TV sets are DANGEROUS items -
probably more so than their predecessors. They all utilise switch mode power
supplies, and if you do not understand these, or work with them on a regular
basis, and have a proper transformer-isolated safety supply to run them
from, then they can be lethal - and I mean that by the most death-causing
literal definition that you can find.

Creating PCBs, and making ICs work do not, unfortunately, qualify you to be
poking around safely in the back of a TV. Even twiddling the screen pot,
without knowing what it does, or how to readjust it correctly so that you
don't have a useless CRT on your hands in a couple of months, to add further
to your woes, indicates that you should not be attempting this.

Whilst this is a DIY repair group, for some types of repair, a degree of
expertise is still required, and in our opinion, you simply don't have the
necessary expertise to be attempting a repair such as this. Those of us who
do, would be irresponsible to advise you to try, for your own safety. The
advice you were given was good, and I think the same as most of us would
have given - take it to a reputable repair shop. If you really don't want to
spend the money on it, and it really is just a year old, then pick up the
phone and bleat long and hard to Panasonic's customer liason - you might
just get a result, and live long enough to enjoy it ...

Also, if you wouldn't mind, please don't top-post. It makes threads
difficult to follow once they get above a couple long.

Arfa