Scored a Panasonic 42" Plasma :)

[Captainclock]

I had scored an old 42" Hewlett-Packard Plasma TV from the Salvage Bin at work (Goodwill) for $7 but it was missing its original speakers and it had a bad Y-Sustain Board which made it so that the TV wouldn't power on properly, but when I went to try and buy a new Y-sustain for this TV on fleabay they wanted anywhere between $50-$200 for the board and that really sucked because it would of been a nice set fixed up but it was going to cost more than the set was worth to fix it, so I ended up scrapping it out. If you ask me Plasma sets aren't worth the trouble because if something like the Y-Sustain board goes out on one you're pretty much screwed because that part costs more than what the TV is worth to replace and you'd might as well just buy a new LCD TV for that kind of money. And the fact that Plasma TVs were notorious for eating through their Y-sustain boards (think of it as the modern day version of the old CRT sets eating through their flyback transformers) that's why they don't make Plasma TVs anymore.

[Alastair E]

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Y-SUS boards Are repairable!!

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by Alastair E

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Y-SUS boards Are repairable!!

orly? What's the usual problem with them? I've never worked on such tvs, but I'd wager broken solder joints on surface mount chips, and the like. Extremely common problem on most any smd component pcb. Xbox red ring, anyone?