Great to turn my Sony Bravia KDL46XBR9 TV (Purchased 01-2010) with my Firestick attached, on this morning to see your video. My Bravia has a picture as good as when new and has never caused me any problem. Not bad after 13 years. I did cheat a little though. Coming from an electronic engineering background I know heat is always a problem. What I did when the TV was new was build a box across the lower vents in the back of the TV that has 3 PC fans installed. The box mounts to the wall mount screw holes. Painted black to match the set, the fans come on automatically when the set comes on. When warranty was up I also cut the plastic vent grates out for better flow. Fan intakes covered with filters also to cut down on dust and occasionally I blow out the inside with compressed air. Why I'm telling you this I have no idea.... Just thanks for the video, and I agree with you, this is a good set, and deserves to be repaired if possible.
Wow! great TV! I always really liked those old Bravia TV's. I really like the reliability that the CCFL LCD TV's have in contrast to the new disposable TV's. This was a very enjoyable video to watch, thanks.
I have a Sony Bravia set from 2009 and it has served me very well with pretty much daily use for the last 13+ years. I also have a DVD/VCR unit from 2005 (rarely used now) and a Blu-ray player from 2016 that gets daily use for 7 years without an issue. I have always had great luck with Sony products and won’t buy anything else.
I live in Thailand which is incredibly hot and had one of those around 2007. The heat that thing put off required running the air conditioning just to keep the room bearable. It was a beautiful set otherwise. Around that time 2008 I was watching Bloomberg too, for the wrong reason.
The infamous thermal resistors were a commnon weakspot of later CRT TV's the better ones could be reset with low melting point solder, but later ones tend to require a new part to be fitted. These early LCD and Plasma sets were of far higher quality than the new designs that are lucky to last beyond the warranty period before they fail. With the current trend for ever larger panel sizes, who wants to have to try to repair them, you will spend the first half hour just removing the screws. Thankfully i retired when i did.
My father has a similar looking one from ~2009, a 46", that has had an issue for years with the audio fading in and out randomly. Just replaced it with a XR55X90K, HUGE improvement. The old one, up close you could see horizontal lines in the display.
I have one from 2007. Bravia engine 1. Never had any problems with it so far. My son is using it every day. All other brands I've owned had some sort of issues. Mainly Samsung and Toshiba.
I have a 32 inch Bravia and the thing I really like are all of the inputs. The newer sets only have HDMI inputs. I have mine connected to a surge protector.
I've had one of these at the bottom of the stairs for a few years now. It worked perfectly until one day it didn't. Hot diggity, I'm about to go learn about whatever that piece is you replaced.
I get it that LED TVs are more prone to fail due to weak LED strips among other things What do you think about the newer OLED technology in comparison? What to watch out for if you need to buy a new TV set?
I am watching the new QD OLED sets to see how they do. The conventional OLED can suffer burn in just like plasma did. Also since they are based on white OLED that is phosphor based i would expect the color shift that led sets experience as well as phosphor burn.
I have 7 different Bravia TV’s ranging from CRT, LCD (neon and led backlit) and led tv. All have worked well past their life time. Still a great picture on all of them. The only bad problems come up is the power supply has an electrical fault with the power. I replace the fuse and give the TV a good clean out. Continue to just work👍
Good and useful information, as today received a used Sony Bravia KDL-32D3000 32" LCD TV, manufactured in 6/2007. Seems to work for now but who knows how long. Originally this set was my parents, then it went to my sister, and now it's mine. Seems to have good inputs for videogame consoles etc. so would be nice if it would keep working as long as possible. Remote controller needs to be disassembled though, some buttons don't work, probably needs just contact cleaning.
OOOOOH........ Dave has a nice little power screwdriver and I don't think he stripped any screws using it. I made an earlier comment suggesting Dave use one to save Time and Hand fatique and someone HAD to Make a Petty comment about it. Thanks Dave......... You made my day.. Love the TV repair videos. I try to learn a little more every day.
There is one in every crowd. And another that fired off complaints to everyone but the Easter Bunny trying to shut my channel down LOL 😆. Give it a rest John. How bought send - check to support my channel. (Now he will complain that I said his name)
Standard 6R8 5W resistor, and a 140C thermal cutout crimped to the one lead, so that you can mount it in the same orientation as the original. That is how they are made internally, just the bare resistor and the thermal fuse, separated by a fibreglass sleeve, and filled with cement in the ceramic boat. Replacement with the resistor and single use cutout is simple, as otherwise you have to order those from Sony.
Thanks for the video. I recently scrapped a similar Sony TV but I had to force the backlight to turn on because the main board wasn't sending the ON signal. When the backlight finally worked, it only shows vertical color stripes no image at all, i suspect timing controller board, main board or LCD panel. I saved the backlight board and power supply, the rest went to recycle.
I bought an A90J OLED October 2021 and the TV is already out. It's blinking red 5 times on the LED. The screen doesn't comes on and the sound is out. I'm so disappointed.
Yes just no overheat fail safe. The idea behind this is if something is drawing too much current it will overheat the resistor and open the thermal fuse before complete failure. So with nobyheemal cut our it will keep getting hotter and hotter till something goes pop.
Any idea why my Sony TV goes black sometimes when I press play on you tube and when I press the back button the screen sometimes stays black what could be the cause of that the TV is only 6 months old other than that everything else works fine.
My Sony 11 yrs now still perfect & pix better than most new. We had a real Sony franchise & for a few yrs we sold these & got abt 3 kilobucks US , 500 profit & most cash & carry. And you know Sony. If got 5000 sold only build 4500. TNX Sony ! LFOD !
I have a 32" Bravia, it's only 720p but that's fine by me as i have lot of 320p videos on my computer that i still watch. TV also has wide range of connections, 2x SCART, 3x HDMI, component and so on
Nice set and a simple fix :-D Safety resistors with a hidden fuse inside are a pain in the ass, it looks new but it's open. Those have caught me out quite a few times and round in circles i go trying to find the fault. But if i check resistors first, everyone is perfect ( sods law ) lol.
I have a sony lcd which turns off in a couple of minutes, 2 blinks that indicates a dc problem and yes, i measure all low voltage outputs and it rises too much (2/3v more than it should be) then it shuts down. I dont know where is the problem. I recap the entire board but no, that's not the problem.
I had a bravia 40 inch set someone gave away fully working a 720p panel that could disply 1080i the speakers were front mounted and it sounded great but picture was terrible it had done about 37,000 hours colours were awful and low brightness i thought the panel might not be in good shape then i discovered the auto brightness option turning it off the picture was amazing and panel had tons of brightness, and had to turn it way down .I would have kept it but i wanted to use it with a laptop and games console but picture with 1080 modes was stretched and the option is greyed out in 1080 to switch it but the setting is able to be used in 720p really annoying as i wanted to keep it ,i gave it to a mate to sell i really hope he did and never chucked it i would be a bit pissed if he did chuck it he told me he sold it and it was quite heavy carrying it at 25kg such a well made set from 2008 .
most sony products don't work properly even when new! In 2017 I bought a Sony plasma TV 55 inches 4K resolution costing about €1,200, it worked normally for a week and suddenly the screen stopped working so simply, I returned it to the store and they told me it can't be repaired and then they gave me a new one
It's getting close to Spring clean up in my part of California. Looking forward to seeing what kinds of TV they throw away. One year I found an Epson projector in perfect working condition. Last year some old bloke threw out 2 perfectly working 32 inch flat screens. Sold one for $35 two weeks later and kept the other.
@@jerryspann8713 Not all tosses are broken, just obsolete. Would be nice to see these devices re-purposed wherever possible. It's uneconomic to ship them so local sales will only work.
I never Google anything. Same as when someone says RUclipsr so in so had that same fault 2 years go I am like who? I don't watch other RUclips channels unless they are music related. There is very little i actually watch on YT. I can probably count the RUclipsrs I visit regularly on one hand. I rarely look at other electronic channels. No need to, i know this stuff like the back of my hand. The only reason i keep active in tinkering with electronics is i want to keep the grey matter between my ears active. Best way to help prevent Alzheimer's is to keep the brain active solving problems. That's a fact.
Since New movies are not really my thing anymore, neither are having a big family to enjoy the big screen, I kind of gave up on TV repair. No reason to really bother with them for me. Also the TCON boards are often $100 bucks to fix these TV's. And they ALL run HOT! They do have a great image. But with New TV's being 4k and being as cheap as chips? I don't even bother anymore.
@@dlarge6502 I went to Walmart and saw a Floor display for $298. The Legs of the TV were missing, and no remote. It was one of the 65 inch models. Not bad IMO since I wall mount anyways. And I think that had 3 in the store that were open box at the time. I am still blown away you can get a Legit Laser projector for less then 2k.
Had a very similar model that I just threw out. It had power but no backlight. Knowledge is too limited to figure out what was wrong. The caps all tested fine. Picked it up for free a while back anyway. Ended up getting a $200 smart TV at Walmart. Last TV I bought was $1400 at Costco in 2008.
Sony's are still first class TV's. They source there OLED panels from LG but manage to build a great TV around that. Yes it comes with a premium price, but I'm happy to pay that to avoid having to look at one of these dreadful Walmart TV's.
Great to turn my Sony Bravia KDL46XBR9 TV (Purchased 01-2010) with my Firestick attached, on this morning to see your video. My Bravia has a picture as good as when new and has never caused me any problem. Not bad after 13 years. I did cheat a little though. Coming from an electronic engineering background I know heat is always a problem. What I did when the TV was new was build a box across the lower vents in the back of the TV that has 3 PC fans installed. The box mounts to the wall mount screw holes. Painted black to match the set, the fans come on automatically when the set comes on. When warranty was up I also cut the plastic vent grates out for better flow. Fan intakes covered with filters also to cut down on dust and occasionally I blow out the inside with compressed air. Why I'm telling you this I have no idea.... Just thanks for the video, and I agree with you, this is a good set, and deserves to be repaired if possible.
Yes Sony pretty much prefected the LCD picture. Even the fluorescent based sets used a dimmable backlight so dark scenes looked right.
Wow! great TV! I always really liked those old Bravia TV's. I really like the reliability that the CCFL LCD TV's have in contrast to the new disposable TV's. This was a very enjoyable video to watch, thanks.
The LED failure issue should be a recall IMO. Such waste and poor design.
I have a Sony Bravia set from 2009 and it has served me very well with pretty much daily use for the last 13+ years. I also have a DVD/VCR unit from 2005 (rarely used now) and a Blu-ray player from 2016 that gets daily use for 7 years without an issue. I have always had great luck with Sony products and won’t buy anything else.
You've been on a roll with TV work lately.
I have been grabbing throw away TV's to fix and then attempt to sell. Just something to keep busy.
I live in Thailand which is incredibly hot and had one of those around 2007. The heat that thing put off required running the air conditioning just to keep the room bearable. It was a beautiful set otherwise. Around that time 2008 I was watching Bloomberg too, for the wrong reason.
Got a 40 inch one of these from 2009 still works great
The infamous thermal resistors were a commnon weakspot of later CRT TV's
the better ones could be reset with low melting point solder, but later ones tend to require
a new part to be fitted.
These early LCD and Plasma sets were of far higher quality than the new designs that are
lucky to last beyond the warranty period before they fail.
With the current trend for ever larger panel sizes, who wants to have to try to repair them,
you will spend the first half hour just removing the screws.
Thankfully i retired when i did.
Thanks Dave, mine is still working and it is around 14 years old now. Now I have info for checking it out when it fails. Good stuff !
Thanks to you I managed to repair my 50" LG CCFL backlit TV which had bulging caps. Kudos!!
Power of the internet!
My father has a similar looking one from ~2009, a 46", that has had an issue for years with the audio fading in and out randomly. Just replaced it with a XR55X90K, HUGE improvement. The old one, up close you could see horizontal lines in the display.
I have two 32" bravia TV's in my house both brought 2010, they still works.
I have a 2008 bravia 42 inch and it still works, never had an issue. Nice reliable TV
I have one from 2007. Bravia engine 1. Never had any problems with it so far. My son is using it every day. All other brands I've owned had some sort of issues. Mainly Samsung and Toshiba.
I have a 32 inch Bravia and the thing I really like are all of the inputs. The newer sets only have HDMI inputs. I have mine connected to a surge protector.
That's the advantage to the older sets. Analog inputs which all the new sets don't have.
Yep, my 2010 Panasonic 32txl has L+R RCA audio analogue output which go into my amp.
I've had one of these at the bottom of the stairs for a few years now. It worked perfectly until one day it didn't. Hot diggity, I'm about to go learn about whatever that piece is you replaced.
I get it that LED TVs are more prone to fail due to weak LED strips among other things What do you think about the newer OLED technology in comparison? What to watch out for if you need to buy a new TV set?
I am watching the new QD OLED sets to see how they do. The conventional OLED can suffer burn in just like plasma did. Also since they are based on white OLED that is phosphor based i would expect the color shift that led sets experience as well as phosphor burn.
@@12voltvids Thanks😊
I have 7 different Bravia TV’s ranging from CRT, LCD (neon and led backlit) and led tv. All have worked well past their life time. Still a great picture on all of them. The only bad problems come up is the power supply has an electrical fault with the power. I replace the fuse and give the TV a good clean out. Continue to just work👍
Good and useful information, as today received a used Sony Bravia KDL-32D3000 32" LCD TV, manufactured in 6/2007. Seems to work for now but who knows how long. Originally this set was my parents, then it went to my sister, and now it's mine. Seems to have good inputs for videogame consoles etc. so would be nice if it would keep working as long as possible. Remote controller needs to be disassembled though, some buttons don't work, probably needs just contact cleaning.
OOOOOH........ Dave has a nice little power screwdriver and I don't think he stripped any screws using it. I made an earlier comment suggesting Dave use one to save Time and Hand fatique and someone HAD to Make a Petty comment about it.
Thanks Dave......... You made my day.. Love the TV repair videos. I try to learn a little more every day.
I've had this driver for years and use it all the time.
There is one in every crowd. And another that fired off complaints to everyone but the Easter Bunny trying to shut my channel down LOL 😆.
Give it a rest John. How bought send - check to support my channel.
(Now he will complain that I said his name)
My father had a newer Sony LED backlit. Lasted all of 3 years before it got vertical line issue. His Hitachi plasma before it lasted 10 years.
So who has the replacement parts? And would a standard resistor work as a sub?
You can use thermal fuses in used electric kettles.
Standard 6R8 5W resistor, and a 140C thermal cutout crimped to the one lead, so that you can mount it in the same orientation as the original. That is how they are made internally, just the bare resistor and the thermal fuse, separated by a fibreglass sleeve, and filled with cement in the ceramic boat.
Replacement with the resistor and single use cutout is simple, as otherwise you have to order those from Sony.
Dig out the thermal cut out, stick a new one in and fill with cement.
I grabbed one off an old board but I will rebuild this one. Easy enough to do.
Thanks for the video. I recently scrapped a similar Sony TV but I had to force the backlight to turn on because the main board wasn't sending the ON signal. When the backlight finally worked, it only shows vertical color stripes no image at all, i suspect timing controller board, main board or LCD panel. I saved the backlight board and power supply, the rest went to recycle.
I bought an A90J OLED October 2021 and the TV is already out. It's blinking red 5 times on the LED. The screen doesn't comes on and the sound is out. I'm so disappointed.
hy dave.... that resistor can be swapped with a same specs non fuse? wll not harm anithing?
Yes just no overheat fail safe.
The idea behind this is if something is drawing too much current it will overheat the resistor and open the thermal fuse before complete failure. So with nobyheemal cut our it will keep getting hotter and hotter till something goes pop.
Any idea why my Sony TV goes black sometimes when I press play on you tube and when I press the back button the screen sometimes stays black what could be the cause of that the TV is only 6 months old other than that everything else works fine.
My Sony 11 yrs now still perfect & pix better than most new. We had a real Sony franchise & for
a few yrs we sold these & got abt 3 kilobucks US , 500 profit & most cash & carry. And you know Sony. If got 5000 sold only build 4500. TNX Sony !
LFOD !
Been very bad for buying TVs in Clacton the last few weeks most stuff seems sold when I ask now.
Now that it fixed make sure you drop the backlight power down from the factory setting . It will last even longer .
This is quite a common fault across a whole range of TV's especially the plasma types too.
I have a 32" Bravia, it's only 720p but that's fine by me as i have lot of 320p videos on my computer that i still watch. TV also has wide range of connections, 2x SCART, 3x HDMI, component and so on
That looks like the one you changed the chip on the T Con board several years back.
That was a kdl37xbr6. I still have that set.
My Sony Bravia is 15 years old and still running every day for 6 hours long without any problems.
My bravias been on daily 8hrs a day for the past 14 years with zero problems
Nice set and a simple fix :-D
Safety resistors with a hidden fuse inside are a pain in the ass, it looks new but it's open.
Those have caught me out quite a few times and round in circles i go trying to find the fault.
But if i check resistors first, everyone is perfect ( sods law ) lol.
I have a sony lcd which turns off in a couple of minutes, 2 blinks that indicates a dc problem and yes, i measure all low voltage outputs and it rises too much (2/3v more than it should be) then it shuts down. I dont know where is the problem. I recap the entire board but no, that's not the problem.
You just learned an important lesson. Caps are not always the problem.
I had a bravia 40 inch set someone gave away fully working a 720p panel that could disply 1080i the speakers were front mounted and it sounded great but picture was terrible it had done about 37,000 hours colours were awful and low brightness i thought the panel might not be in good shape then i discovered the auto brightness option turning it off the picture was amazing and panel had tons of brightness, and had to turn it way down .I would have kept it but i wanted to use it with a laptop and games console but picture with 1080 modes was stretched and the option is greyed out in 1080 to switch it but the setting is able to be used in 720p really annoying as i wanted to keep it ,i gave it to a mate to sell i really hope he did and never chucked it i would be a bit pissed if he did chuck it he told me he sold it and it was quite heavy carrying it at 25kg such a well made set from 2008 .
Sony makes excellent product's built to last
most sony products don't work properly even when new! In 2017 I bought a Sony plasma TV 55 inches 4K resolution costing about €1,200, it worked normally for a week and suddenly the screen stopped working so simply, I returned it to the store and they told me it can't be repaired and then they gave me a new one
I got the same TV for free too founded by the side of the road someone threw it away and it works
Shame how many tvs end up in the dump due to a simple issue like this.
Lots
Seen a few at my local council recycle centre over the years.unfortunatley for some reason we are not allowed take any items from there.
@@78vinyl97 Legal liabilities perhaps.
It's getting close to Spring clean up in my part of California. Looking forward to seeing what kinds of TV they throw away. One year I found an Epson projector in perfect working condition. Last year some old bloke threw out 2 perfectly working 32 inch flat screens. Sold one for $35 two weeks later and kept the other.
@@jerryspann8713 Not all tosses are broken, just obsolete. Would be nice to see these devices re-purposed wherever possible. It's uneconomic to ship them so local sales will only work.
How can you just assume that this is the first place to look for on the fault, have you not heard of something called google?
I never Google anything. Same as when someone says RUclipsr so in so had that same fault 2 years go I am like who? I don't watch other RUclips channels unless they are music related. There is very little i actually watch on YT. I can probably count the RUclipsrs I visit regularly on one hand. I rarely look at other electronic channels. No need to, i know this stuff like the back of my hand.
The only reason i keep active in tinkering with electronics is i want to keep the grey matter between my ears active. Best way to help prevent Alzheimer's is to keep the brain active solving problems. That's a fact.
That component should have been a reset switch.
It's a fail safe for people that allow the set to overhead such as installing over fireplace.
Since New movies are not really my thing anymore, neither are having a big family to enjoy the big screen, I kind of gave up on TV repair. No reason to really bother with them for me. Also the TCON boards are often $100 bucks to fix these TV's. And they ALL run HOT! They do have a great image. But with New TV's being 4k and being as cheap as chips? I don't even bother anymore.
New 4K TV'S are far from cheap, cheapest I see is £400
@@dlarge6502 I went to Walmart and saw a Floor display for $298. The Legs of the TV were missing, and no remote. It was one of the 65 inch models. Not bad IMO since I wall mount anyways. And I think that had 3 in the store that were open box at the time.
I am still blown away you can get a Legit Laser projector for less then 2k.
Thanku sir
Another video. Great!
Had a very similar model that I just threw out. It had power but no backlight. Knowledge is too limited to figure out what was wrong. The caps all tested fine. Picked it up for free a while back anyway. Ended up getting a $200 smart TV at Walmart. Last TV I bought was $1400 at Costco in 2008.
Sony's are still first class TV's. They source there OLED panels from LG but manage to build a great TV around that. Yes it comes with a premium price, but I'm happy to pay that to avoid having to look at one of these dreadful Walmart TV's.
FYI the new QD OLED offerings from Sony they are building their own panels. The conventional OLED use LG panels.
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TV Cool
I had one, it went kaput, they never could figure out what was wrong with it. Won't buy Sony again.📺
You will not have much luck with other brands either.