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Originally Posted by Electronic M
One "safe" way to bypass a circuit breaker for testing is to get a fuse the same amperage and tack that in parallel with the open breaker....Of course if there's a fault causing the tripping you'll waste fuses trying to troubleshoot it.
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Well I'm pretty sure its not a fault in the circuitry because the breaker will "trip" without me even having the TV plugged in and powered on, all I'm doing is moving the TV from laying on the TV screen (face down) to moving it into the upright position (the TV screen facing the wall and the bottom of the chassis facing the floor) and after I do that I plug the TV in and go to power it on and the TV is dead and I unplug the TV and flip it back onto its face and check the breaker and sure enough its "tripped" (it doesn't beep with the continuity test on my DMM) and the only way to "reset" the breaker is to use a screwdriver because the red reset button doesn't doesn't do anything to reset the breaker element for some reason.
Also when I looked at the breaker it doesn't look like its original because there's a blob of solder on the chassis of the TV under the circuit breaker and a little blob of solder on the bottom of the circuit breaker itself but the solder blobs don't match up (almost like the circuit breaker was taken from another TV and installed inside this one to replace the original circuit breaker.)