Hello from the Berkshires of Western MA

[rlovison]

I've been a member of AudioK for a while and just recently stumbled into this forum. I'm looking forward to sharing info and participating in the community.

We have a local transfer station in our town and recently I've been salvaging some flat panel televisions. It all started because my wife wouldn't let go of a 25 year old RCA CRT and agree to purchase a bigger screen flat panel until that CRT died. So I found another way. My first LCD salvage was a Visio VX32L that was in beautiful condition cosmetically though needed a new power supply, surface mount fuse on the MB and a remote that I picked up on eB*y for a total of $42. My wife doesn't miss the CRT.

The next one was a LG 32LC7D, also in beautiful condition and functioned beautifully. All I needed was a remote that again, I found on eB*y. My wife uses this one to play exercise videos in her exercise room.

The third is a Toshiba 32HLC56 that was left in the rain and suffers from the "2 seconds to black" problem. I'm hoping this is just a bad transformer on the inverter board (one was bad out of the eight). I'll replace the part and test it out next week.

So there you have it. A new hobby. If I find any more flat panels I'll need to start giving them away. Now if I can only find that 40" plus screen.