(SOLVED)Samsung 32" LCD Backlight switches off after 2 seconds

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Hey, that's a good result! As far as I can recall, I've never changed a CCFL on a Sammy before. Now Sharp, that's a different matter. Goes to show you can't judge a tv by it's price tag.

Bruce

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Hi Bruce,

Bet you're relieved that most recent Sharp are Vestel - They don't have to many CCFL/LED problems as the main board usually expires first - Just love Vestel and all those main board 23XXXXXXX serial numbers - Chris.

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Hi Chris,

Don't think we see many Vestels here these days. Were more prevalent in the CRT days. Based in Turkey, aren't they? Guess Turkey to you is S.E. Asia to us. Same crap, different souce. Guess we all have our cross to bear. We used to be the dumping for the British, offloading the convict riffraff, now we're the dumping ground for the Chinese, offloading their blue-ribbon merchandise.

Bruce

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Hi Bruce,

At least with Vestel we get basic manuals, where we just have to try work out the thousands of variations for each 'Make' model, screen maker and screen size, all identified by numbers where Vestel gives no guide, as several different numbers may well work, or not.

Eeprom/Flash are a bit of a problem too - You might expect a maker to offer bins to download as they are troublesome - Naturally, they don't generally, especially where most needed on crap sets.

China isn't so easy, as not yet managed get a shematic for anything - Mind you, they do cheap bits on the Flea, postage paid. Try get something from America, and the postage is at least twice the price of the item which is odd as distance is comparable.

Can't complain about the UK - Chris.