As someone who spent 20+ years in radio can I just say you have an incredible voice, the cadence, timbre and delivery/style are top notch.Great vid too👍👍👍
Well, I used to repair sets at the recycling centre, I had my own workshop in a shipping container.... It was great! Cancer stopped me..... Reason councils will never allow you to just take any electrical item is its contravening the WEEE Directive. They must show due diligence in the care of disposal of all items brought onto site. To take them away, officially, you need to be registered with environment agency,or whatever they call themselves these days.... As I worked on site, and sold the repaired sets in their recycling shop, I was covered under their existing licences. They used the cheap tv set sales as a hook to drag in customers to the shop.... I suggest you talk to the recycling managers, maybe get them to do a recycling shop, and you do the tv sets there just like I did. That's what I did, and after about a year of meetings and referrals to different depts, I got in. I paid a weekly rent and that was it, we were in business. They provided the shipping container and I fitted it out, mostly from recycled stuff off site. That recycling shop I'm reliably informed currently takes around 10 grand per month, the sales of all household items, not only tv sets. When I left they employed someone to do the electrics repairs and pat testing....
I'm lucky in the village I live in they all know I was a TV engineer before retirement, so they give me TV's Radio's hair straighteners, keeps my busy I loved it, I give them back to people who have nothing in their homes,through the local parish council & church
As a former TV engineer (1970s Rediffusion) I dropped out of the trade in the 90s but was recently given a 55” 4K Philips Ambilight. A few RUclips videos and £12.00 in new Backlight strips it has now become my new flight simulator monitor. As you mention removing the screen is the critical part, I purchased 2 suction clamps like they use on car windscreens to remove and refit it although it was still a sweating brow moment. Going to my local recycling centre on Monday with garden rubbish but like you they won’t part with any TVs.
I have had exactly the same from my local dump, all the TV's go into a shipping container & when i ask if I could take one I got a firm "no", Anyhow a few years ago I went to dump a couple of old crt monitors & spotted a rather nice Hitachi with the remote, It was busy there so while they were preoccupied I promptly grabbed it & slid it on my back seat & drove out, two caps on the power board later & its working, I gave it to a friend who had just moved into a rented flat as he was down on his luck due to a messy divorce.
I can relate to this. I had a friend that was throwing away a 42" Magnavox flat screen. Instead he gave it to me. After some internet research, I learned that all that was wrong was the small remote control sensor board. Cost was under $5.00. The repair only took about 20 minutes. TV is still working fine, 5 years later. Essentially, I got a free flat screen TV.
There might be a way to get free TVs that people would normally toss. Many years ago when I ran my TV Repair shop (decades ago) I used to run an ad in a local free magazine that was very popular. The ad read: "I will pay $5.00 for your old TV and I will pick it up. This saves you from throwing it out." (something like that). Of course, these days, depending on what kind of on-line option is available, like Kijiji or Craig's list, one could use that option. I constantly got a supply of old sets. Some, not that old. Of course, in those days, we're talking big old CRT sets. Some portables, some floor models. (back breaking!) Depending on the condition of the sets, I'd either repair them to sell, or put them in my "used stock" shed, to be stripped for parts when needed. I made a lot of $$$ at that time. Of course, when I sold a set, I always provided a warranty on it and I was that guy who honestly supported my warranties. Rare these days, to be sure. Just an idea of running an ad on a well-known site. Of course, I don't do repairs anymore as I'm happily retired.
As an hobbyist electronics engineer with a home workshop I went through a phase in the early days of LCD TV's of repairing them for folks especially as they were so expensive. However selling TV's involves having them PAT tested and offering a short warranty. It's just not worth the hassle. Sometimes the TV's just needed re-capping and I challenged a friend to 'aquire' a set with a remote from the recycling centre and bring it to me. One 50 pence electrolytic capacitor later and it was working. As far as I know it's still sat in his kitchen working well. The TV's at that site went to a place in Liverpool where they were processed for their various metals. There are some people on Facebook who will buy faulty sets from you (£10) and they ship them overseas where they are repaired if possible and sold on. I'm not sure which is best TBH but in the UK a lot of folks just want Smart TV's so are not really interested in older non-Smart sets. Sadly TV repair shops will slowly disappear as engineers retire so the recycling centre/sell to exporters route will be the only options left. TV's have become disposable items.....
@@jeannoelsandrazie1874 I agree however the only glimmer of hope is that things are likely to plateau at 4K Smart TV's. I have two myself and I'm not sure there is anything better that would cause me to upgrade. Of course my previous TV's have been repurposed (in our Gym) and are still working fine! There is still a culture of disposable lifestyle here in the UK and I'm often amazing at what is being left at our local waste centre both tech and non-tech 😞
@@ianbishop247 I don't know about the UK, but here in N. America, a new system is being rolled out, slowly. It's ATSC 3.0 (aka NEXTGEN). It handles 4K and "can" handle 8K, however, there's no current standards for 8K. This is, of course, for over-the-air reception. Honestly, to me, 8K or above is just "selling points" for those who THINK that they need that high of resolution. Even with 4K, while images are amazing, I can say that here in our home, our 1080P 3DTV is excellent. We don't NEED more. That being said, 4K content is very limited. Sure, some movies and such, but none of the television networks transmit in 4K, even the ones that are already on ATSC 3.0.
When I was a kid, high school they had auto-shop as a way to orient students who were mechanically inclined. Once on a trip to the dump to dump an old CRT, I found myself surrounded by orphaned desk top computers. I picked up 3 and smuggled them out. Getting them home, I found that none were broken and the only thing wrong was a corrupted OS. I went back again with similar results. Even though the world is using more and more lap tops, this is where interested students can start learning about, the CPU, hard-drive, ram and peripherals. Retrieving computers from the dump and refurbishing for poor kids by installing Linux, or Windows if Microsoft would help. With everyone converting to smart phones, the window of opportunity is closing and all those desk-tops will be needlessly destroyed..
Many of these TVs can be repaired even cheaper than you've shown as it is usually the case that just one LED in the row is dead, but since they are wired in series, they all go out. . Simply test them with a multimeter to find the dead one then solder a jumper wire over the dead LED bypassing it, and then reassemble. Usually the one missing LED out of the dozens in there isn't enough to affect the picture quality and most people would never even notice. I have a 55 inch ROKU tv that I use in my shop area that I repaired this way years ago and it has no discernable dim spot that I can see. Looks brand new and still works great. Great video! Keep up the good work!
I've seen a lot of guys just jumper the bad LED. It works and usually, it's not very noticeable on the screen later on. I'm a bit different, however. Personally (and this is just personal choice) I would rather light up an LED on the rail, then using a small battery, take some of my LEDs in stock to visually see which light up to the same brightness and as close to the same color temperature as has the set. But that's just me. LOL
All household recycling centres tend to tell you crappy excuses when you ask them for something that has been thrown out, a couple of sites I live near purposely destroy the Tv's for spite.
Brilliant to see people like you repairing perfectly good tech that would otherwise end up land filling. Agree totally with what you say about being allowed to have chucked away tech at your local tip. I remember many years ago a guy was chucking away a trailer full of roof tiles that at same time I was redoing my roof of same tiles. The guy said yes help yourself which I started to do until tip guy came over & asked what I was doing, when I told him he said sorry you can’t do that. Asked him why not he said due to H&Safety of the site, when I pointed out I had gloves on he still said no, what a load of bullsh@it! 💩💩👎🏻
I was lucky with a Hitachi that I have, face down you can remove the screen in the bezel eliminating the chance of flexing the screen into oblivion. Replaced both led strips and it’s back in service. Kept the old strips for their leds, using my surface mount equipment I can remove and reuse the leds down the road to replace bad chips if needed. You got a great deal for just six quid for the leds, I paid 35 euro for a two strip kit. But it’s a fantastic TV compared to the new Hitachi that we purchased to replace it. The old TV has analog inputs for composite video, VGA in, SCART. The new models don’t! When I buy a TV it has to work with my legacy equipment WITHOUT expensive adaptors to HDMI.
I used to work in my local recycling centre after I quit the electronics service industry. I was factory trained as a tv engineer, had 24 years as an electronics engineer prior. We used to take on average 25 sets per week, most repairable - screen damaged sets not viable. They were collected weekly by a weee recycling company and simply scrapped. They only way to get the sets to repair and sell on would be through intervention / social media and advertising. The tvs are actually sold to the weee recyclers, as are most of the products taken to your “tip”. Items that cannot be recycled are fed into a grid tied fire powered steam turbine. The local authority then get paid for the electricity produced. Years ago you could buy anything you wanted but due to liability issues, that is no longer permitted.
I'm 58 years old and have seen everything go from vacuum tube to solid state and I never thought they would shift away from CRT's in my lifetime - but sure enough they finally did . They sure did hang in there for a long time though . LoL !!!
You forgot to mention everchanging input connection formats. My perfectly working crt tv has no hdmi. So, unusable, unless you start searching for adaptors. If ever they exist...
I have an old Samsung flat panel TV with fluorescent edge lit panel. About 5or 6 years after I purchased the unit, the display went wonky. I gave it a good smack and it looked good again. 30 minutes later and it crapped out for good. I could see the back light so I thought it was the panel or the processor. I thought I would take the back off the set and see what was inside. I found the ribbon cable was not fully seated in the panel connection. A quick reseat and eight years later it is still working. I enjoyed your video. Enjoy The Journey - Cheers
LCD backlight replacement used to be so easy. Just remove the screen, take the old backlights out and replace. Simple. No need to strip the whole screen down.
Alan, Picked up a Samsung 4K smart TV (43inch) today. All it needed was a power lead. Now sitting on the bar wall!! Cannot believe they are being chucked. Learning loads!
it's no different across the pond. Over here in the states it's the same or at least it is in Maryland. At the transfer station they won't let us take anything like mowers, weed whackers, Flat screen TV's , computers, Laptops...etc. They said if I took something from the dump they would have me arrested... arrested for taking something from the dump....crazy world.
From USA. I had worked on computers or friends and family for many years and about 3 years back I decided to fix several flat panel monitors electronic parts. ((I have done some work with this in sound systems for my own stuff in the past, but never TV or screen type things. I at that point had just repaired my 50 inch plasma TV (2 bad caps), and a 31.5 inch very nice older flat panel LG TV, (almost all of the caps in the power supply board and 2 on the logic board) so I knew that most likely the problem with the computer flat panel was the capacitors.)) So after fixing several of these I was able to sell a few, but the problem now is because they are not LED back lite or not over 20 inches they don't sell nor even can be given away to someone directly. I will have to get rid of them soon to a thrift store I assume and they might sell it for something, or they end up in my collection and then in the trash some day.. Yes, the older TV's have more connection options and a modern TV might only have 1 or 2 HDMI inputs. Unless I missed something, a friend of mine bought a huge flat screen TV about a year back now and I was going to set him up with a sound bar I repaired/modified. (It could use line in from a headphone out or line out, or Bluetooth.) Well we could not find any audio out connection and the Bluetooth was out of sync and even with the TV sync adjustment it was still out of sync. What a dumb thing to buy a hug screen and you have to use the speakers out the back, or buy the same brand Bluetooth, I assume, to have to work right. PS: people whenever you buy a TV, or related items. Keep the original remote and have it hand and have good batteries near by to put in it, (your cable remote often will not get you into the TV adjustments menu/settings) and also keep the manual near by as well. For the computer and other password devices. Don't use passwords that are not so long you can't recall them, and never use the same one for every password, and write them down and have them in a safe place. We all forget and we all get older. Trying to get into a computer or account without knowing the right password and dealing with the provider to try to get it is almost impossible, or just not going to happen ever.
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There is almost no lead but tin, copper, gold, platinum, palladium, indium, purified silicon, galium... that's what the recyclers are out for. BTW, get a set of suction cups. Makes handling the panel a lot easier and you don't need to grab it by the t-cons and risk tearing the cofs. 😊
It can be really tough. I had to open my 2009 Samsung TV and replace one bad electrolytic capacitor, with another good capacitor of equal value that was lying around in my collection of odds and ends. That meant that I had to spend a whopping zero dollars to repair that TV of mine, which is still working perfectly to this day. Sadly, the same applied to other of my possessions which are all currently all working due to being repaired for a price of damn near nothing. Thus my 1999 SCHWINN 6700.1 treadmill is repaired and is still working. My 2004 microwave oven is repaired and is still working. My 15 year old Black & Decker coffee maker is repaired and is still working. My 1976 Heathkit AA-1506 audio amplifier is repaired and is still working. My current but old, Samsung SyncMaster S23B300 computer monitor brick PSU is repaired and working, and thus it and my monitor are active at this very moment. My 2009 Lenovo m58 backup computer is repaired and is still working. My ancient Microsoft mouse is repaired and is still working. My 2001 Palm m505 PDA is repaired and is still actually being used daily. My electric shaver is repaired and is still working. My 19 1/2 year old Danby air conditioner is repaired and is active at this very moment. My foldible shopping cart is repaired and is in use almost every day. My computer chair busted just days after I had purchased it, but the damaged coaster wheel is repaired and I am sitting on that chair right at this moment. Each of these repairs, cost me either nothing, or in other cases, just a few dollars. All of these devices would have been tossed into the trash or recycle bin by those who do not have simple basic repair skills. What a waste.
Live in Devon. Been doing PC - Laptop repairs since early 2000's. All local recycle centres got deals with large companys to take repairable electronics. No local bussiness gets a look in
I picked up 2 Dyson V6 battery hoovers. From someone’s car before he chucked them away. I changed batteries cleaned then new filters and been working over 2 yrs.
By the way, the LED strip is powered by a current regulated power supply. This protects the LED's from being over powered. The LED's are all connected in series. Thus if one dies, it becomes an open circuit, and all of the other LED's will turn off and remain off. However, if you find the dead LED, and simply bypass it, the remainder of the LED's will now light up, and in no way be over powered, all thanks to the current regulator. After this zero dollar repair, the difference in light intensity will most likely not even be noticeable.
My 4K computer monitor went pop this morning just like that TV. I can still just about see the desktop so I thought it was the backlight, hopefully this vid will help me fix it.
Same thing happens now at my local recycling place, in Central Scotland. I have been chided for both removing (got called out for this) and later asking for TVs that I was fairly sure I could fix. As you say, its normally a backlight or something else fairly similar. BITD, I managed to get all kinds of useful bits of electrical kit from the site. Where do they go, what do you do with them? I once asked. A man comes and takes them away from us, they replied. Who, why? as I'm sort of paying for this indirectly via council tax. Cant tell you, they said. I think its someone WEEE certified from somewhere local.
My Samsung 52" TV stopped working and I was looking at a cost of $1,100 to replace it. I bought the backlight inverter board for $65.00 and it is good as new again. It took 35 minutes to replace the board. I love my TV and even though it is not directly internet connected, it connects to internet via HDMI Anynet through my Samsung Blu-ray 1,000 watt home theater. The only thing I don't like about it is that it draws 200 watts. To stop the constant A/C draw I have it plugged into a smart power strip. I have it come on only when my favorite shows air via a routine, and off when it is not needed to conserve power. I can just ask Alexa to turn on TV for when I want to play games on the big screen and send TV signal to my Dell all in one with HDMI in & out. Both of my Dell all in ones were rebuilt by me for less than $100 each to save them from the scrap heap. Reduce - reuse - recycle.
The computer I'm writing this comment on found it's way into the boot of my car when I was at a recycling centre. I didn't realise it'd been put there until I was home.
In the USA and Australia they allow people to put stuff out on Bin day and if there is anything of value other people can take it, Why are we forced to go to a recycling depot and no one can take it?
Currently, I am repairing my landlords microwave oven. Two relays had seized up and thus were constantly in the closed position. Wow, this will cost a big big few tiny dollars per relay replacement. I am 66 years old, so this repairing is just fun stuff for me. I don't need the money for doing the repairs.
In my area there are electronic recycling centers and many of the TVs they receive work perfectly fine and get resold or shipped overseas from what I recall. The one nearby me is also a shop where they sell these repaired or working TVs.
Recycling centres are such a misnomer. After my mum died I emptied her flat. A charity took some of her stuff, but some furniture they wouldn't take - too old fashioned, or in the case of a pair of expensive, Parker Knoll recliner chairs she had recovered, but the fire warning tags were missing, so into the council crusher they went.
Here in the colonies "dump picking" is an old & honored tradition. Places that try to ban it are unsuccessful, any pols that try are voted out & treated like lepers. Waste nothing ! LFOD !
I have picked up a smart tv from a back lane, that had the plug cut off. Took it home, put a plug on and it works great, apart from a vertical line on the left side, as thin as thread? Not sure if it is an easy fix?
I have a Panni edge lit tv from 2011 .. it did start going into standby, all it needed was an update .. it's fine now .. still got a lovely picture for it's age .. by keeping the panel low as possible :)
A lot of these TV's end up at junk auctions, and car boot sales. That is why staff at some waste dumps are reluctant to let you have them, because THEY sell them on, as spares or repair, if they do have faults. Its shocking what Panasonic and Sony etc, charge for these when they're new, because there really isn't much to them, a couple of circuit boards, cheap speakers, the back lights, and screen, and that's about it. Thats why theres no weight to them.
I worked in a semi precious metals recycling centre that had contracts with Panasonic/Compaq/IBM /Dewalt/Sony etc to destroy all their returns. Some of the stuff that gets granulated is a shocker, some of the stuff that gets rescued was classed as theft... Which one is the greater crime?
I'm watching this video on a Panasonic tv that I picked up kerbside, left out for council cleanup along with other household stuff. I'd already repaired one the same model, it required a replacement Led. So I supposed it was the same problem. This one required 3 Leds, and some of the lenses had fallen off of others. I cut some led strips into pieces [from another broken tv] and wired then in place. Re-glued the detached lenses and all worked well. Then 3 more lenses came off over the next week. The tv still works OK but has slightly brighter spots where the lenses are missing. I had watched a video where RUclipsr @12voltvids had mentioned that LG tvs suffered from lenses coming loose, and this Panasonic tv has a LG screen. I can't be bothered taking the whole thing apart again unless another led fails. And the remote is one I found at another place.
Frustratingly in the UK you can't take anything from recycling centres, the only place i can get old tech from is my local library and even they think it's weird, I'm pretty sure they have a wanted poster with my head on it.. I mean I've found so many interesting devices including a Fully Funtional 90s Laptop and PlayStation 2
I live in the USA and in this area, we have Bulk Trash Pickup twice a year, where the city will haul away almost anything you put on the curb for free. People throw out tons of LCD TVs that have various problems. I've brought home a few and while most of the smaller ones work, most of the larger ones don't. I have next to no electronics knowledge. I don't have a shop full of spare parts to swap in and try. When a TV won't turn on, I have no idea how to fix it. There's also nobody that I know of who will fix them. I know it's probably an easy fix, but without someone knowledgeable enough to make that fix, a non-working TV is just junk. I kept two larger TVs with problems. One is a 50" Samsung that has a purple tint to the picture and no sound. I haven't attempted to fix it, but I'm hoping the sound problem is just a loose wire. As for the purple tint, I think that's caused by bad LEDs and can be solved by replacing them at a cost of about $30. I also have a 60" Vizio TV that works, but half the LEDs are burned out. I've watched videos on how to replace them, but the set of LED strips is around $80, and apparently this particular model has a consistent problem with burning out the LEDs early due to a power surge when you turn it on. Also, if you make one little mistake removing the LCD panel, you can easily crack it, and then that's $80 down the drain. I've LOVE to be able to easily fix faulty TVs, but it's not so easy for the average person, and it's not like people advertise that they want non-working TVs to fix.
I have a Samsung 55” add a couple of days ago there was a rather loud bang from the back of it top left, I think. I’m guessing something popped up I tried to turn it back on and the red light did come on for a second or two now there’s no red power light at all it was rather expensive one when bought it new gutted I have to throw it out (or do I) do you think this could be fixed? Any advice would be appreciated… very informative video & cool channel keep it up.
I have 5 sony TV's all seem to have the same fault - at the bottom couple of inches feint horizontal lines. I have fixed other TV's not sure about these?
Im finding most of these LED TV people are throwing are 720/1080p. Many are working or have minor faults. I think they are just looking for an excuse to upgrade to a 4-8k TV as they are pretty cheap right now. You don't get much money for these 2k TV's either on the second hand market, so you won't get a good return on any time spent on them.
It begs the question, why would the owner toss it away when he could have gotten it repaired for 20 quid? If someone brought you their TV to get repaired is that what you'd normally charge for an edge light repair? I don't know any technicians that wouldn't charge the same price as a new unit to make that kind of repair.
LCD & LED TV's die so quickly and litter the place. I pefered plasma and I know some people that still have them running beautifully in their living rooms.
I've been a TV & Video tech 40+yrs & no one fixes TV's in OZ anymore because it's just not economical from a business point of view, I now fix laptops & mobile phones at component level to survive because people will pay for their data/device back in working condition.
Bristol Waste has a REUSE shop where they divert good condition, fit-for-purpose items from the waste stream and get them into the hands of people who can use them. Their reuse team has established relationships with partners who can take items from our recycling centres, refurbish them and put them back into the community and into use.
Those edge LED's can sometimes be hard to fix because if the LED strip isn't exactly below the white plastic light spreader (i don't know the name for it) you get either dark or light spots at the bottom of the picture. Tip: Lower the backlight to 70% and your TV will last much longer.
Its more about when the led strips go, they melt the light guide lens, especially samsungs. Sometimes you can catch it before they melt, but if its melted to restore it to original quality need to find a similar model with a cracked screen to swap.the good light gude for the melted one.
Edge lit sucks the light never hits the entire screen and you get either a bright middle and dark edges or bright edges and dark middle. Yea the the tv is thin but I’d go for a full array backlit tv at least then the light is being directed right at the back of the screen much better
an excellent video. I have a polaroid P48led14 tv. When I switched it on it went bang and stopped working. Could you point me to any component Which could have failed. Also where do you get your parts from. Hope you can help. Kind regards Jimmy jones
I have a Sony TV 40 inches, from 2014 or something and for the last 4 years is in its box on its side. Any chance that is going to affect it negatively? I am thinking of giving it away to someone who needs one and I am a bit worried.
It is the same thing here in Sweden. You are not allowed to take anything with you from a recycling center. Seems to me also that there is something fishy about the reasons why not. Does not really seem to be for the environmentally greater good....
You can actually replace the open circuit led's; it depends what is most cost effective. Sometimes its impossible or too expensive to replace the led strip. You need some skill to replace leds.
I quite often pickul old broken flat screen tvs screens are usaully smashed missing remotes these and other items put out on the curb for hard rubbish pickup i take them home strip them out for the low grade and mid range circuit boards for copper, silver recovery
Best move I ever did was toss my Samsung flat screen in the trash. Three years later, don't miss it one bit. Nothing but PC commercials and crappy fake news channels to watch. Oh and the $200.00 per month cable bill is now just an internet connection.
@Tv Repair Community I have a 2020 65" Samsung QLED its a very good TV but has suffered impact damage in the top left corner from a kids toy. It has not cracked the front glass however the pressure from the impact has caused the LCD panel behind to bleed. What do you advise I do? Is it useful to anyone for repair? I have heard a panel replacement is 90% on the TV cost
Nope. The LED matrix is not serviceable. These screens are put together in a cleanroom environment and heat staked to never come apart. Buy a new TV and keep your kids away from it...
Question; I have a Sony KD49X (about 8-10 years old) 50" that recently had two thin black horizontal lines apprear (in the top half of screen), with the second line appearing recently. I phone two TV repairers and both said this was not economic to repaire. I see there are quite a few comments from people who have repaired flat TV's. Can I just ask is the information I have been given true?
yep Ive had that at ours, i was taking some rubbish to the tip and noticed the people in front of me had just got out a tv and asked don't suppose I could have that, they said sure, we don't know if it works though, I didn't mind. then two grumpy workers had a right go at me. saying you cant do that !! honestly they where so rude and looked at me like scum. luckily the guy who's tv it was walked it to the out side of the tip gate and we took it from there. long story short the tv works perfectly and really good picture. the workers are only thinking of selling anything of value for them selves. I hate seeing good things go to waste at the tip
yep, council tips here wont let you touch anything, 'health n safety', might get a shock and sue the council, thats the usual excuse ... plus many tvs and other stuff are dumped not because faulty, but unwanted due to owners 'updating'/'upgrading' ....
Yes, i am allways given they same soppy excuse every time, however i traded sofa cushions for some blokes old Home Theater PC, the staff where furious but they couldn't do anything about it! (🖕 you veolia!) As for my library, half the time nobody cares when i take things from their little red bin, i do however place something in there myself so morally it's acceptable.. Except the two members of staff that threatened to call the police and report me for theft!.. It's abandoned goods, you only own the container itself... Not the contents.
@@lukedavis436 some years back, twice within 3 years or so there was a skip outside the secondary school full of computers being dumped, i enquired and was told 'no one is allowed to have them even if willing to pay, they have to be destroyed' not even the nearby library which couldve done with them, i asked inside and they said they already tried , and was told no, so the council wouldnt even let its own library have anything,
Yeah attached to every "recycling centre" will be a guy who takes knackered tellies and turns them into new tellies. They probably make RUclips videos 😅 What annoys me are the morons working in these places who don't know what they're doing. I went to dispose of an old portable AC unit, so took it to the bit with the fridges in, but because it wasn't a fridge, they made me put it in the small electronic waste skip. Except it is a fridge, full of refrigerant which is why fridges are special.
Few years back I tried to fix older LG led tv that had several led strips and I say NEVER AGAIN, I should have replaced all of the leds but replacing all of the strips didn't seem very cost effective and soldering new leds would have been too much work. So I replaced only faulty ones only to see the rest going out one by one during couple of years and then backlight went completely out again
Here's why the L.E.D's fail and for you to pass on this great tip on to the new owners of the Set. {People run the brightness and the contrast at full power!!} which is why the sets go black and stop working. Don't run the set at full brightness!! Running it at full brightness and full contrast is what Kills the L.E.D back light. Tell this and get the word out and I bet the ratio of broken sets will diminish. If there is a Vivid mode DON'T ever use it! Run the set at 50% or lower brightness to save the L.E.D backlights lifespan ...
My 40 inch Samsung TV suddenly developed a line across the screen about a 6th of the way up. After about six months another appeared above that. The pixels are not dead they are just displaying the wrong data. If I play some formats of movie they disappear altogether for the duration. I'm convinced it's repairable and would like to do so as it is a 3D TV.
The part might be only 6 quid, but the LABOR is not free. Labor is expensive, material is cheap, that's the current state of things hence land fills are full of stuff that has life left in it.
@@allenfleckney5969 Yes, but "free labor" including the desire to donate shop space, tool use, consumables, utilities, rent, etc is never going to be a widely adopted solution. Reality outweighs altruism by a very wide margin.
its not only tvs its most electrical items they should stick a label on it for the reason it was left there Eg no power/broken screen and let you buy anything you think you can fix for £5 what's the worst that will happen it will end up back there it would make money for the council
Nice fix Allen, that’s a nice tv Panasonic make brilliant TVs ( not vestel )😊 The council tip here is privately run, they get someone in and they take the TVs away probably someone like EMOS maybe, it’s the company that make the rules not the council… they do test them onsite and the working ones get Pat tested and sold in the shop
I too love Panasonic.... well... NOW I DO! LOL Back when I was a TV Repairman, I hated Panasonic. Not due to failure rate, but back then, at least here in N. America, most sets didn't have a Color Temperature control. They were all "cool" looking and here in N. America, many people prefer a nice "warm" picture (not bluish, more natural). But then, Panasonic learned! I keep our current Panasonic in good working condition. It's a 54" 3D Plasma. The only breakdowns were, once it started cycling off and on when trying to turn it on. That turned out to be, of all things, that 2 of the fans inside seized up. Because the blades didn't spin, the computer sensed that they had failed and wouldn't allow the set to stay on. The fix was stupid easy. LOL I just repaired the fans and all worked. Of course, while opened up, I repaired the other fans too. The only other issue was that it failed and wouldn't turn on, just click. In that case, it was just a big capacitor on the power supply board. I did replace a few extras to avoid more problems. So far, it's working perfectly and the picture is still excellent. Surprisingly, the plasma screen has not lost a single pixel at all or "degassed".
I live in NW London, and I want to set up a recycling centre that teaches youngers how to fix things, engineering, electronics etc. I would really really love to be able to do something like this. By day I work in the NHS but I do enjoy watching electrical videos and am interested in it. Anyone here want to help?
I went to our local tip here in New Zealand looking for old tuner amplifiers and other electronics for my RUclips channel. I was told I cannot sort through old electronics because it's a health and safety issue. What a load of c**p.
You should approach the council with a business plan, you’ll save them money in the long run. This would work with other items that could be repaired easily, things like vacuum cleaners etc. 🤔
As someone who spent 20+ years in radio can I just say you have an incredible voice, the cadence, timbre and delivery/style are top notch.Great vid too👍👍👍
You took the words out of my mouth. Actually striking delivery and calm, confidence-inducing, just like a teacher you trust.
Incredibly kind thank you.
I immediately thought Radio DJ when I heard it.
Well, I used to repair sets at the recycling centre, I had my own workshop in a shipping container....
It was great!
Cancer stopped me.....
Reason councils will never allow you to just take any electrical item is its contravening the WEEE Directive. They must show due diligence in the care of disposal of all items brought onto site.
To take them away, officially, you need to be registered with environment agency,or whatever they call themselves these days....
As I worked on site, and sold the repaired sets in their recycling shop, I was covered under their existing licences.
They used the cheap tv set sales as a hook to drag in customers to the shop....
I suggest you talk to the recycling managers, maybe get them to do a recycling shop, and you do the tv sets there just like I did.
That's what I did, and after about a year of meetings and referrals to different depts, I got in. I paid a weekly rent and that was it, we were in business.
They provided the shipping container and I fitted it out, mostly from recycled stuff off site.
That recycling shop I'm reliably informed currently takes around 10 grand per month, the sales of all household items, not only tv sets.
When I left they employed someone to do the electrics repairs and pat testing....
I'm lucky in the village I live in they all know I was a TV engineer before retirement, so they give me TV's Radio's hair straighteners, keeps my busy I loved it, I give them back to people who have nothing in their homes,through the local parish council & church
Nice!
That's awesomen of you to donate them, nice work sir.
As a former TV engineer (1970s Rediffusion) I dropped out of the trade in the 90s but was recently given a 55” 4K Philips Ambilight. A few RUclips videos and £12.00 in new Backlight strips it has now become my new flight simulator monitor. As you mention removing the screen is the critical part, I purchased 2 suction clamps like they use on car windscreens to remove and refit it although it was still a sweating brow moment. Going to my local recycling centre on Monday with garden rubbish but like you they won’t part with any TVs.
I have had exactly the same from my local dump, all the TV's go into a shipping container & when i ask if I could take one I got a firm "no",
Anyhow a few years ago I went to dump a couple of old crt monitors & spotted a rather nice Hitachi with the remote, It was busy there so while they were preoccupied I promptly grabbed it & slid it on my back seat & drove out, two caps on the power board later & its working, I gave it to a friend who had just moved into a rented flat as he was down on his luck due to a messy divorce.
I can relate to this. I had a friend that was throwing away a 42" Magnavox flat screen. Instead he gave it to me. After some internet research, I learned that all that was wrong was the small remote control sensor board. Cost was under $5.00. The repair only took about 20 minutes. TV is still working fine, 5 years later. Essentially, I got a free flat screen TV.
There might be a way to get free TVs that people would normally toss.
Many years ago when I ran my TV Repair shop (decades ago) I used to run an ad in a local free magazine that was very popular.
The ad read: "I will pay $5.00 for your old TV and I will pick it up. This saves you from throwing it out."
(something like that).
Of course, these days, depending on what kind of on-line option is available, like Kijiji or Craig's list, one could use that option.
I constantly got a supply of old sets. Some, not that old. Of course, in those days, we're talking big old CRT sets. Some portables, some floor models. (back breaking!)
Depending on the condition of the sets, I'd either repair them to sell, or put them in my "used stock" shed, to be stripped for parts when needed.
I made a lot of $$$ at that time. Of course, when I sold a set, I always provided a warranty on it and I was that guy who honestly supported my warranties. Rare these days, to be sure.
Just an idea of running an ad on a well-known site.
Of course, I don't do repairs anymore as I'm happily retired.
As an hobbyist electronics engineer with a home workshop I went through a phase in the early days of LCD TV's of repairing them for folks especially as they were so expensive. However selling TV's involves having them PAT tested and offering a short warranty. It's just not worth the hassle. Sometimes the TV's just needed re-capping and I challenged a friend to 'aquire' a set with a remote from the recycling centre and bring it to me. One 50 pence electrolytic capacitor later and it was working. As far as I know it's still sat in his kitchen working well. The TV's at that site went to a place in Liverpool where they were processed for their various metals. There are some people on Facebook who will buy faulty sets from you (£10) and they ship them overseas where they are repaired if possible and sold on. I'm not sure which is best TBH but in the UK a lot of folks just want Smart TV's so are not really interested in older non-Smart sets. Sadly TV repair shops will slowly disappear as engineers retire so the recycling centre/sell to exporters route will be the only options left. TV's have become disposable items.....
Not very good news. I have always hated the trend ofever changing tv definition formats, causing people to dump perfectly repairable tv's....
@@jeannoelsandrazie1874 I agree however the only glimmer of hope is that things are likely to plateau at 4K Smart TV's. I have two myself and I'm not sure there is anything better that would cause me to upgrade. Of course my previous TV's have been repurposed (in our Gym) and are still working fine! There is still a culture of disposable lifestyle here in the UK and I'm often amazing at what is being left at our local waste centre both tech and non-tech 😞
You're 100% right there .. I'm ex TV engineer from 1974 - 2004 .. Rumbelows .. 1974 - 1995 .. then our own repair shop till 2004 ..
@@nightlore000 me 1981 to 2014 then just made redundant as TV repair trade has collapsed
@@ianbishop247 I don't know about the UK, but here in N. America, a new system is being rolled out, slowly.
It's ATSC 3.0 (aka NEXTGEN). It handles 4K and "can" handle 8K, however, there's no current standards for 8K. This is, of course, for over-the-air reception.
Honestly, to me, 8K or above is just "selling points" for those who THINK that they need that high of resolution.
Even with 4K, while images are amazing, I can say that here in our home, our 1080P 3DTV is excellent. We don't NEED more.
That being said, 4K content is very limited. Sure, some movies and such, but none of the television networks transmit in 4K, even the ones that are already on ATSC 3.0.
We should all recycle more old tech as so much good stuff gets chucked out!
LOUDER! Exactly why we exist :)
When I was a kid, high school they had auto-shop as a way to orient students who were mechanically inclined. Once on a trip to the dump to dump an old CRT, I found myself surrounded by orphaned desk top computers. I picked up 3 and smuggled them out. Getting them home, I found that none were broken and the only thing wrong was a corrupted OS.
I went back again with similar results. Even though the world is using more and more lap tops, this is where interested students can start learning about, the CPU, hard-drive, ram and peripherals. Retrieving computers from the dump and refurbishing for poor kids by installing Linux, or Windows if Microsoft would help. With everyone converting to smart phones, the window of opportunity is closing and all those desk-tops will be needlessly destroyed..
Many of these TVs can be repaired even cheaper than you've shown as it is usually the case that just one LED in the row is dead, but since they are wired in series, they all go out. . Simply test them with a multimeter to find the dead one then solder a jumper wire over the dead LED bypassing it, and then reassemble. Usually the one missing LED out of the dozens in there isn't enough to affect the picture quality and most people would never even notice. I have a 55 inch ROKU tv that I use in my shop area that I repaired this way years ago and it has no discernable dim spot that I can see. Looks brand new and still works great.
Great video! Keep up the good work!
I've seen a lot of guys just jumper the bad LED. It works and usually, it's not very noticeable on the screen later on.
I'm a bit different, however. Personally (and this is just personal choice) I would rather light up an LED on the rail, then using a small battery, take some of my LEDs in stock to visually see which light up to the same brightness and as close to the same color temperature as has the set.
But that's just me. LOL
All household recycling centres tend to tell you crappy excuses when you ask them for something that has been thrown out, a couple of sites I live near purposely destroy the Tv's for spite.
They have someone who pays for them that is why they wont just let you have them.
Brilliant to see people like you repairing perfectly good tech that would otherwise end up land filling. Agree totally with what you say about being allowed to have chucked away tech at your local tip. I remember many years ago a guy was chucking away a trailer full of roof tiles that at same time I was redoing my roof of same tiles. The guy said yes help yourself which I started to do until tip guy came over & asked what I was doing, when I told him he said sorry you can’t do that. Asked him why not he said due to H&Safety of the site, when I pointed out I had gloves on he still said no, what a load of bullsh@it! 💩💩👎🏻
Thank you.
I was lucky with a Hitachi that I have, face down you can remove the screen in the bezel eliminating the chance of flexing the screen into oblivion. Replaced both led strips and it’s back in service. Kept the old strips for their leds, using my surface mount equipment I can remove and reuse the leds down the road to replace bad chips if needed. You got a great deal for just six quid for the leds, I paid 35 euro for a two strip kit. But it’s a fantastic TV compared to the new Hitachi that we purchased to replace it. The old TV has analog inputs for composite video, VGA in, SCART. The new models don’t! When I buy a TV it has to work with my legacy equipment WITHOUT expensive adaptors to HDMI.
I used to work in my local recycling centre after I quit the electronics service industry. I was factory trained as a tv engineer, had 24 years as an electronics engineer prior. We used to take on average 25 sets per week, most repairable - screen damaged sets not viable. They were collected weekly by a weee recycling company and simply scrapped. They only way to get the sets to repair and sell on would be through intervention / social media and advertising. The tvs are actually sold to the weee recyclers, as are most of the products taken to your “tip”. Items that cannot be recycled are fed into a grid tied fire powered steam turbine. The local authority then get paid for the electricity produced. Years ago you could buy anything you wanted but due to liability issues, that is no longer permitted.
I'm 58 years old and have seen everything go from vacuum tube to solid state and I never thought they would shift away from CRT's in my lifetime - but sure enough they finally did . They sure did hang in there for a long time though . LoL !!!
You forgot to mention everchanging input connection formats. My perfectly working crt tv has no hdmi. So, unusable, unless you start searching for adaptors. If ever they exist...
@@jeannoelsandrazie1874 you can get those adaptors but the end result is often disappointing with incorrect aspect ratios etc
@@jonathaneastwood2927 it is called. Planned obsolesence.
I have an old Samsung flat panel TV with fluorescent edge lit panel. About 5or 6 years after I purchased the unit, the display went wonky. I gave it a good smack and it looked good again. 30 minutes later and it crapped out for good. I could see the back light so I thought it was the panel or the processor. I thought I would take the back off the set and see what was inside. I found the ribbon cable was not fully seated in the panel connection. A quick reseat and eight years later it is still working. I enjoyed your video. Enjoy The Journey - Cheers
it's called CCFL
I like to see things getting fixed than becoming e waste. Great video. My local recycling centre doesn't let you look at old PC's for parts.
LCD backlight replacement used to be so easy. Just remove the screen, take the old backlights out and replace. Simple. No need to strip the whole screen down.
Made me laugh, I get TVs dumped outside our school...recent one had smashed screen...but the fly tipper forgot to take out there Fire Stick 😅
Alan, Picked up a Samsung 4K smart TV (43inch) today. All it needed was a power lead. Now sitting on the bar wall!! Cannot believe they are being chucked. Learning loads!
it's no different across the pond. Over here in the states it's the same or at least it is in Maryland. At the transfer station they won't let us take anything like mowers, weed whackers, Flat screen TV's , computers, Laptops...etc. They said if I took something from the dump they would have me arrested... arrested for taking something from the dump....crazy world.
From USA. I had worked on computers or friends and family for many years and about 3 years back I decided to fix several flat panel monitors electronic parts. ((I have done some work with this in sound systems for my own stuff in the past, but never TV or screen type things. I at that point had just repaired my 50 inch plasma TV (2 bad caps), and a 31.5 inch very nice older flat panel LG TV, (almost all of the caps in the power supply board and 2 on the logic board) so I knew that most likely the problem with the computer flat panel was the capacitors.)) So after fixing several of these I was able to sell a few, but the problem now is because they are not LED back lite or not over 20 inches they don't sell nor even can be given away to someone directly. I will have to get rid of them soon to a thrift store I assume and they might sell it for something, or they end up in my collection and then in the trash some day.. Yes, the older TV's have more connection options and a modern TV might only have 1 or 2 HDMI inputs.
Unless I missed something, a friend of mine bought a huge flat screen TV about a year back now and I was going to set him up with a sound bar I repaired/modified. (It could use line in from a headphone out or line out, or Bluetooth.) Well we could not find any audio out connection and the Bluetooth was out of sync and even with the TV sync adjustment it was still out of sync. What a dumb thing to buy a hug screen and you have to use the speakers out the back, or buy the same brand Bluetooth, I assume, to have to work right.
PS: people whenever you buy a TV, or related items. Keep the original remote and have it hand and have good batteries near by to put in it, (your cable remote often will not get you into the TV adjustments menu/settings) and also keep the manual near by as well.
For the computer and other password devices. Don't use passwords that are not so long you can't recall them, and never use the same one for every password, and write them down and have them in a safe place. We all forget and we all get older. Trying to get into a computer or account without knowing the right password and dealing with the provider to try to get it is almost impossible, or just not going to happen ever.
There is almost no lead but tin, copper, gold, platinum, palladium, indium, purified silicon, galium... that's what the recyclers are out for.
BTW, get a set of suction cups. Makes handling the panel a lot easier and you don't need to grab it by the t-cons and risk tearing the cofs. 😊
It can be really tough. I had to open my 2009 Samsung TV and replace one bad electrolytic capacitor, with another good capacitor of equal value that was lying around in my collection of odds and ends. That meant that I had to spend a whopping zero dollars to repair that TV of mine, which is still working perfectly to this day. Sadly, the same applied to other of my possessions which are all currently all working due to being repaired for a price of damn near nothing. Thus my 1999 SCHWINN 6700.1 treadmill is repaired and is still working. My 2004 microwave oven is repaired and is still working. My 15 year old Black & Decker coffee maker is repaired and is still working. My 1976 Heathkit AA-1506 audio amplifier is repaired and is still working. My current but old, Samsung SyncMaster S23B300 computer monitor brick PSU is repaired and working, and thus it and my monitor are active at this very moment. My 2009 Lenovo m58 backup computer is repaired and is still working. My ancient Microsoft mouse is repaired and is still working. My 2001 Palm m505 PDA is repaired and is still actually being used daily. My electric shaver is repaired and is still working. My 19 1/2 year old Danby air conditioner is repaired and is active at this very moment. My foldible shopping cart is repaired and is in use almost every day. My computer chair busted just days after I had purchased it, but the damaged coaster wheel is repaired and I am sitting on that chair right at this moment. Each of these repairs, cost me either nothing, or in other cases, just a few dollars. All of these devices would have been tossed into the trash or recycle bin by those who do not have simple basic repair skills. What a waste.
Good on you .Recently picked up a 55 inch sony simply goinrd two back light wires to get it working 😬
Cornwall is not alone. The amenity refuse centre here in Andover, Hampshire has hundreds.
Live in Devon. Been doing PC - Laptop repairs since early 2000's. All local recycle centres got deals with large companys to take repairable electronics. No local bussiness gets a look in
same for charitable refurbishers like us, even being a charity holds no weight
I picked up 2 Dyson V6 battery hoovers. From someone’s car before he chucked them away. I changed batteries cleaned then new filters and been working over 2 yrs.
By the way, the LED strip is powered by a current regulated power supply. This protects the LED's from being over powered. The LED's are all connected in series. Thus if one dies, it becomes an open circuit, and all of the other LED's will turn off and remain off. However, if you find the dead LED, and simply bypass it, the remainder of the LED's will now light up, and in no way be over powered, all thanks to the current regulator. After this zero dollar repair, the difference in light intensity will most likely not even be noticeable.
Great message you are putting out And a great video Thanks
My 4K computer monitor went pop this morning just like that TV. I can still just about see the desktop so I thought it was the backlight, hopefully this vid will help me fix it.
Same thing happens now at my local recycling place, in Central Scotland. I have been chided for both removing (got called out for this) and later asking for TVs that I was fairly sure I could fix. As you say, its normally a backlight or something else fairly similar. BITD, I managed to get all kinds of useful bits of electrical kit from the site.
Where do they go, what do you do with them? I once asked. A man comes and takes them away from us, they replied. Who, why? as I'm sort of paying for this indirectly via council tax. Cant tell you, they said. I think its someone WEEE certified from somewhere local.
My Samsung 52" TV stopped working and I was looking at a cost of $1,100 to replace it. I bought the backlight inverter board for $65.00 and it is good as new again. It took 35 minutes to replace the board. I love my TV and even though it is not directly internet connected, it connects to internet via HDMI Anynet through my Samsung Blu-ray 1,000 watt home theater. The only thing I don't like about it is that it draws 200 watts. To stop the constant A/C draw I have it plugged into a smart power strip. I have it come on only when my favorite shows air via a routine, and off when it is not needed to conserve power. I can just ask Alexa to turn on TV for when I want to play games on the big screen and send TV signal to my Dell all in one with HDMI in & out. Both of my Dell all in ones were rebuilt by me for less than $100 each to save them from the scrap heap. Reduce - reuse - recycle.
I wish there were more people like you🇬🇧
Lots of people already have stopped taking old TVs to the recycling center. They dump em on the side of the road instead.
Well good because that gives people the opportunity to re-use the Tv.
So many stuff being thrown away when they could be fixed.... my heart hurts....
Schools have recycle days here. Ive found a few by the curb.
My father in law works at the recycling center and has a cards deck amount of tvs between 55” and 72” that all work flawlessly
The computer I'm writing this comment on found it's way into the boot of my car when I was at a recycling centre. I didn't realise it'd been put there until I was home.
In the USA and Australia they allow people to put stuff out on Bin day and if there is anything of value other people can take it, Why are we forced to go to a recycling depot and no one can take it?
Currently, I am repairing my landlords microwave oven. Two relays had seized up and thus were constantly in the closed position. Wow, this will cost a big big few tiny dollars per relay replacement. I am 66 years old, so this repairing is just fun stuff for me. I don't need the money for doing the repairs.
Keep it up sir. Proud to have you on board. We are a dying breed.
In my area there are electronic recycling centers and many of the TVs they receive work perfectly fine and get resold or shipped overseas from what I recall. The one nearby me is also a shop where they sell these repaired or working TVs.
Recycling centres are such a misnomer. After my mum died I emptied her flat. A charity took some of her stuff, but some furniture they wouldn't take - too old fashioned, or in the case of a pair of expensive, Parker Knoll recliner chairs she had recovered, but the fire warning tags were missing, so into the council crusher they went.
It's sad how much other stuff goes to waste too, I saw so many good condition items in the small appliance bin going to waste
Well said Allen hope things work out with your council
Here in the colonies "dump picking" is an old & honored tradition. Places that try to
ban it are unsuccessful, any pols that try are voted out & treated like lepers.
Waste nothing !
LFOD !
I am amazed that such even backlighting comes from one side.
I have picked up a smart tv from a back lane, that had the plug cut off. Took it home, put a plug on and it works great, apart from a vertical line on the left side, as thin as thread? Not sure if it is an easy fix?
I have a Panni edge lit tv from 2011 .. it did start going into standby, all it needed was an update .. it's fine now .. still got a lovely picture for it's age .. by keeping the panel low as possible :)
The throw away generation, but the biggest issue is sourcing parts cheaply for the person on the street
I picked a 14 inch lcd tv out of a council litter picking truck a few weeks ago. Only needed a fiver remote control and was otherwise immaculate.
A lot of these TV's end up at junk auctions, and car boot sales. That is why staff at some waste dumps are reluctant to let you have them, because THEY sell them on, as spares or repair, if they do have faults.
Its shocking what Panasonic and Sony etc, charge for these when they're new, because there really isn't much to them, a couple of circuit boards, cheap speakers, the back lights, and screen, and that's about it. Thats why theres no weight to them.
I worked in a semi precious metals recycling centre that had contracts with Panasonic/Compaq/IBM /Dewalt/Sony etc to destroy all their returns. Some of the stuff that gets granulated is a shocker, some of the stuff that gets rescued was classed as theft... Which one is the greater crime?
I'm watching this video on a Panasonic tv that I picked up kerbside, left out for council cleanup along with other household stuff. I'd already repaired one the same model, it required a replacement Led. So I supposed it was the same problem. This one required 3 Leds, and some of the lenses had fallen off of others. I cut some led strips into pieces [from another broken tv] and wired then in place. Re-glued the detached lenses and all worked well. Then 3 more lenses came off over the next week. The tv still works OK but has slightly brighter spots where the lenses are missing. I had watched a video where RUclipsr @12voltvids had mentioned that LG tvs suffered from lenses coming loose, and this Panasonic tv has a LG screen. I can't be bothered taking the whole thing apart again unless another led fails. And the remote is one I found at another place.
The model is Panasonic TH-42A400A
Frustratingly in the UK you can't take anything from recycling centres, the only place i can get old tech from is my local library and even they think it's weird, I'm pretty sure they have a wanted poster with my head on it..
I mean I've found so many interesting devices including a Fully Funtional 90s Laptop and PlayStation 2
I repair TV's and often replace backlights, however I can not source Panasonic equivelants. May I ask where did you source yours from?
I live in the USA and in this area, we have Bulk Trash Pickup twice a year, where the city will haul away almost anything you put on the curb for free. People throw out tons of LCD TVs that have various problems.
I've brought home a few and while most of the smaller ones work, most of the larger ones don't. I have next to no electronics knowledge. I don't have a shop full of spare parts to swap in and try. When a TV won't turn on, I have no idea how to fix it. There's also nobody that I know of who will fix them. I know it's probably an easy fix, but without someone knowledgeable enough to make that fix, a non-working TV is just junk.
I kept two larger TVs with problems. One is a 50" Samsung that has a purple tint to the picture and no sound. I haven't attempted to fix it, but I'm hoping the sound problem is just a loose wire. As for the purple tint, I think that's caused by bad LEDs and can be solved by replacing them at a cost of about $30. I also have a 60" Vizio TV that works, but half the LEDs are burned out. I've watched videos on how to replace them, but the set of LED strips is around $80, and apparently this particular model has a consistent problem with burning out the LEDs early due to a power surge when you turn it on. Also, if you make one little mistake removing the LCD panel, you can easily crack it, and then that's $80 down the drain.
I've LOVE to be able to easily fix faulty TVs, but it's not so easy for the average person, and it's not like people advertise that they want non-working TVs to fix.
Great work
I have a Samsung 55” add a couple of days ago there was a rather loud bang from the back of it top left, I think. I’m guessing something popped up I tried to turn it back on and the red light did come on for a second or two now there’s no red power light at all it was rather expensive one when bought it new gutted I have to throw it out (or do I) do you think this could be fixed? Any advice would be appreciated… very informative video & cool channel keep it up.
Hi. What’s the model number ?
Where abouts in the UK are you based as I've got Sony tv which is a couple of years old which needs repairing?
Youre 100%, Now Samsung TVS are easy to diagnose
Plus $50 part vs $800 for new tv :) remember these tvs also go to the landfill
I have 5 sony TV's all seem to have the same fault - at the bottom couple of inches feint horizontal lines. I have fixed other TV's not sure about these?
Im finding most of these LED TV people are throwing are 720/1080p. Many are working or have minor faults. I think they are just looking for an excuse to upgrade to a 4-8k TV as they are pretty cheap right now. You don't get much money for these 2k TV's either on the second hand market, so you won't get a good return on any time spent on them.
Hi. Where did you get the parts to repair this TV? Thanks for the video
It begs the question, why would the owner toss it away when he could have gotten it repaired for 20 quid? If someone brought you their TV to get repaired is that what you'd normally charge for an edge light repair? I don't know any technicians that wouldn't charge the same price as a new unit to make that kind of repair.
Why would you take them to a recycling center ? Sell them or give them to goodwill etc , tax write off
LCD & LED TV's die so quickly and litter the place. I pefered plasma and I know some people that still have them running beautifully in their living rooms.
Have you ever considered putting away the screwdriver and soldering iron?
You have a perfect radio show presenter voice!😁👍
Radio pays less then tv repair……. I have many talent, sadly none profitable
I've been a TV & Video tech 40+yrs & no one fixes TV's in OZ anymore because it's just not economical from a business point of view, I now fix laptops & mobile phones at component level to survive because people will pay for their data/device back in working condition.
Bristol Waste has a REUSE shop where they divert good condition, fit-for-purpose items from the waste stream and get them into the hands of people who can use them.
Their reuse team has established relationships with partners who can take items from our recycling centres, refurbish them and put them back into the community and into use.
Those edge LED's can sometimes be hard to fix because if the LED strip isn't exactly below the white plastic light spreader (i don't know the name for it) you get either dark or light spots at the bottom of the picture. Tip: Lower the backlight to 70% and your TV will last much longer.
Its more about when the led strips go, they melt the light guide lens, especially samsungs. Sometimes you can catch it before they melt, but if its melted to restore it to original quality need to find a similar model with a cracked screen to swap.the good light gude for the melted one.
Edge lit sucks the light never hits the entire screen and you get either a bright middle and dark edges or bright edges and dark middle. Yea the the tv is thin but I’d go for a full array backlit tv at least then the light is being directed right at the back of the screen much better
an excellent video.
I have a polaroid P48led14 tv.
When I switched it on it went bang and stopped
working. Could you point me to any component
Which could have failed. Also where do you get
your parts from.
Hope you can help.
Kind regards
Jimmy jones
I have a Sony TV 40 inches, from 2014 or something and for the last 4 years is in its box on its side. Any chance that is going to affect it negatively?
I am thinking of giving it away to someone who needs one and I am a bit worried.
It is the same thing here in Sweden. You are not allowed to take anything with you from a recycling center. Seems to me also that there is something fishy about the reasons why not. Does not really seem to be for the environmentally greater good....
Most TVs are not worth repairing.
You can actually replace the open circuit led's; it depends what is most cost effective. Sometimes its impossible or too expensive to replace the led strip. You need some skill to replace leds.
Which model was this please?
I quite often pickul old broken flat screen tvs screens are usaully smashed missing remotes these and other items put out on the curb for hard rubbish pickup i take them home strip them out for the low grade and mid range circuit boards for copper, silver recovery
I tried to remove one from re3 in Reading once and got a right bollocking.
Best move I ever did was toss my Samsung flat screen in the trash. Three years later, don't miss it one bit. Nothing but PC commercials and crappy fake news channels to watch. Oh and the $200.00 per month cable bill is now just an internet connection.
@Tv Repair Community I have a 2020 65" Samsung QLED its a very good TV but has suffered impact damage in the top left corner from a kids toy. It has not cracked the front glass however the pressure from the impact has caused the LCD panel behind to bleed. What do you advise I do? Is it useful to anyone for repair? I have heard a panel replacement is 90% on the TV cost
Nope. The LED matrix is not serviceable. These screens are put together in a cleanroom environment and heat staked to never come apart. Buy a new TV and keep your kids away from it...
Well there is some conflicting information. I have already had a diagnostic and a quote to repair from a local company
I have see a lot of perfectly good working TV's go to the recycling center!
Question; I have a Sony KD49X (about 8-10 years old) 50" that recently had two thin black horizontal lines apprear (in the top half of screen), with the second line appearing recently. I phone two TV repairers and both said this was not economic to repaire. I see there are quite a few comments from people who have repaired flat TV's. Can I just ask is the information I have been given true?
yep Ive had that at ours, i was taking some rubbish to the tip and noticed the people in front of me had just got out a tv and asked don't suppose I could have that, they said sure, we don't know if it works though, I didn't mind. then two grumpy workers had a right go at me. saying you cant do that !! honestly they where so rude and looked at me like scum. luckily the guy who's tv it was walked it to the out side of the tip gate and we took it from there. long story short the tv works perfectly and really good picture. the workers are only thinking of selling anything of value for them selves.
I hate seeing good things go to waste at the tip
yep, council tips here wont let you touch anything, 'health n safety', might get a shock and sue the council, thats the usual excuse ... plus many tvs and other stuff are dumped not because faulty, but unwanted due to owners 'updating'/'upgrading' ....
or expiring :(
Yes, i am allways given they same soppy excuse every time, however i traded sofa cushions for some blokes old Home Theater PC, the staff where furious but they couldn't do anything about it! (🖕 you veolia!)
As for my library, half the time nobody cares when i take things from their little red bin, i do however place something in there myself so morally it's acceptable..
Except the two members of staff that threatened to call the police and report me for theft!..
It's abandoned goods, you only own the container itself... Not the contents.
@@lukedavis436 some years back, twice within 3 years or so there was a skip outside the secondary school full of computers being dumped, i enquired and was told 'no one is allowed to have them even if willing to pay, they have to be destroyed' not even the nearby library which couldve done with them, i asked inside and they said they already tried , and was told no, so the council wouldnt even let its own library have anything,
@@andygozzo72 it's stupid.... We live in such a wasteful society where just taking seems to be the only way......
Great video a lot of sense spoken which will sadly fall on deaf ears.. by the way you sound like Kenny Everett ..
Yeah attached to every "recycling centre" will be a guy who takes knackered tellies and turns them into new tellies. They probably make RUclips videos 😅
What annoys me are the morons working in these places who don't know what they're doing. I went to dispose of an old portable AC unit, so took it to the bit with the fridges in, but because it wasn't a fridge, they made me put it in the small electronic waste skip. Except it is a fridge, full of refrigerant which is why fridges are special.
Few years back I tried to fix older LG led tv that had several led strips and I say NEVER AGAIN, I should have replaced all of the leds but replacing all of the strips didn't seem very cost effective and soldering new leds would have been too much work. So I replaced only faulty ones only to see the rest going out one by one during couple of years and then backlight went completely out again
Backlights very cheap now. Usually £10 for a whole set.
Here's why the L.E.D's fail and for you to pass on this great tip on to the new owners of the Set. {People run the brightness and the contrast at full power!!} which is why the sets go black and stop working. Don't run the set at full brightness!! Running it at full brightness and full contrast is what Kills the L.E.D back light. Tell this and get the word out and I bet the ratio of broken sets will diminish. If there is a Vivid mode DON'T ever use it!
Run the set at 50% or lower brightness to save the L.E.D backlights lifespan ...
My 40 inch Samsung TV suddenly developed a line across the screen about a 6th of the way up. After about six months another appeared above that. The pixels are not dead they are just displaying the wrong data. If I play some formats of movie they disappear altogether for the duration.
I'm convinced it's repairable and would like to do so as it is a 3D TV.
They should make a breakaway board that can be pulled down to hook up the hdmi ect and pulls itself back up like a vacuum cord does on some units
It's so hard to hook up anything when it's mounted on a wall
The part might be only 6 quid, but the LABOR is not free. Labor is expensive, material is cheap, that's the current state of things hence land fills are full of stuff that has life left in it.
There’s plenty of people who will help fix things. Not expensive , I’m not the only one.
@@allenfleckney5969 Yes, but "free labor" including the desire to donate shop space, tool use, consumables, utilities, rent, etc is never going to be a widely adopted solution. Reality outweighs altruism by a very wide margin.
its not only tvs its most electrical items they should stick a label on it for the reason it was left there Eg no power/broken screen and let you buy anything you think you can fix for £5 what's the worst that will happen it will end up back there it would make money for the council
Nice fix Allen, that’s a nice tv Panasonic make brilliant TVs ( not vestel )😊 The council tip here is privately run, they get someone in and they take the TVs away probably someone like EMOS maybe, it’s the company that make the rules not the council… they do test them onsite and the working ones get Pat tested and sold in the shop
I too love Panasonic.... well... NOW I DO! LOL
Back when I was a TV Repairman, I hated Panasonic. Not due to failure rate, but back then, at least here in N. America, most sets didn't have a Color Temperature control. They were all "cool" looking and here in N. America, many people prefer a nice "warm" picture (not bluish, more natural).
But then, Panasonic learned! I keep our current Panasonic in good working condition.
It's a 54" 3D Plasma. The only breakdowns were, once it started cycling off and on when trying to turn it on.
That turned out to be, of all things, that 2 of the fans inside seized up. Because the blades didn't spin, the computer sensed that they had failed and wouldn't allow the set to stay on.
The fix was stupid easy. LOL I just repaired the fans and all worked. Of course, while opened up, I repaired the other fans too.
The only other issue was that it failed and wouldn't turn on, just click.
In that case, it was just a big capacitor on the power supply board. I did replace a few extras to avoid more problems.
So far, it's working perfectly and the picture is still excellent. Surprisingly, the plasma screen has not lost a single pixel at all or "degassed".
@@BlondieSL long live Panasonic except the rebranded rubbish from vestel (turkey mass produced and rebadged built to fail)
I always wear nitrile gloves when handling the clean psrts to avoid finger print bright spots
I live in NW London, and I want to set up a recycling centre that teaches youngers how to fix things, engineering, electronics etc. I would really really love to be able to do something like this. By day I work in the NHS but I do enjoy watching electrical videos and am interested in it. Anyone here want to help?
Yes, it's a shame. My local tip (Huyton Knowsley) refused my request to recycle a TV.
I went to our local tip here in New Zealand looking for old tuner amplifiers and other electronics for my RUclips channel. I was told I cannot sort through old electronics because it's a health and safety issue. What a load of c**p.
You should approach the council with a business plan, you’ll save them money in the long run. This would work with other items that could be repaired easily, things like vacuum cleaners etc. 🤔