Friday, 27 June 2014
Disappearing Snow!
I placed my Dlink 930L camera in my front window on March 1/14 to record the changes as the snow melted and the summer came. I don't think we have ever had this much snow piled in front of the house. It's amazing the changes that a few months make.
T.V. on the Blink!!
I have a Samsung LN46C750 TV which I purchased in 2010. It gave me a few problems when it was still under warranty, but since then it has worked great. Over the last few months, it started acting up a bit. Occasionally, the picture would start to flicker or you might say had a strobe effect. It flickered when I switched it to my Apple TV at first. I thought the cause was either the Apple TV or the Internet connection. As time went on it began doing it with the DVD player and regular TV.
Living where I do, and not having a repair facility close by, a malfunctioning TV kind of disappoints a person. With that, I decided to search the internet to see if anyone else had the same problem. My search brought me to avsforum.com where I found others with the same problem. Mind you, they didn't have exactly the same TV model number, but they were Samsung.
It turns out, according to the information on the blog, this is a common problem and can be fixed by simply cutting a jumper wire on one of the boards. Apparently Samsung issued a service bulletin regarding the problem and a description of how to go about fixing it is on the avs forum.
I am no TV tech, but thought I would give it a try. When you take the back off the TV, there are only two boards. One is the power supply and the other has all the connectors on it. The fix was so simple, that I was really thinking that it was a hoax and I'd be taking the TV to the repair shop regardless. Here is what I did:
1 - removed stand and laid TV on a blanket
2 - took out the screws and removed the back
3 - checked the part number on the power supply as per info on avs forum. (see photo) It looks like there are a variety of model numbers with the same problem.
4 - located and cut jumper JP852
I took my time - I had the back off the TV, the jumper snipped, everything put back together and powered up within a half hour. Here is a video of what I did.
As for now, the TV is working as it should. Thanks to those on the avs forum and to the Tampatec guys on YouTube.
Living where I do, and not having a repair facility close by, a malfunctioning TV kind of disappoints a person. With that, I decided to search the internet to see if anyone else had the same problem. My search brought me to avsforum.com where I found others with the same problem. Mind you, they didn't have exactly the same TV model number, but they were Samsung.
It turns out, according to the information on the blog, this is a common problem and can be fixed by simply cutting a jumper wire on one of the boards. Apparently Samsung issued a service bulletin regarding the problem and a description of how to go about fixing it is on the avs forum.
I am no TV tech, but thought I would give it a try. When you take the back off the TV, there are only two boards. One is the power supply and the other has all the connectors on it. The fix was so simple, that I was really thinking that it was a hoax and I'd be taking the TV to the repair shop regardless. Here is what I did:
1 - removed stand and laid TV on a blanket
2 - took out the screws and removed the back
3 - checked the part number on the power supply as per info on avs forum. (see photo) It looks like there are a variety of model numbers with the same problem.
4 - located and cut jumper JP852
I took my time - I had the back off the TV, the jumper snipped, everything put back together and powered up within a half hour. Here is a video of what I did.
As for now, the TV is working as it should. Thanks to those on the avs forum and to the Tampatec guys on YouTube.
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