Honey, I Blew Up the TV

[Uniquely]

Tonight a friend and I attempted my first wall mount. Everything was going great. Got the mount perfectly level with six lag bolts into the center of 3 studs. My 125 lb wife literally hung from it. Ran in wall rated HDMI and component through the wall. Installed a Power Bridge power receptacle. Connected the TV and hung it and everything looked so clean, smooth and wire free. I was really proud of the job we did.

Plugged the power in and the TV went pop. I knew the wiring had to be bad somewhere so I called an electrician friend to come and check it out. While I was waiting I went ahead and pulled the recepticals and double checked the wires and everything was connected and in it's proper place. Plugged an alarm clock in and it worked fine. When my electrician friend got there, she determined that when I shoved the receptacle back in the box, the bare ground wire had somehow bent and made a bad connection somewhere. Really rookie mistake, but hell... I AM a rookie.

So I'll be headed to Best Buy to get my wife a new tv tomorrow, but my friend is convinced the tv has a fuse in there and if she can replace it the tv will work. Is there a traditional type fuse in an lcd, or would it be more of a PC like power unit? Most likely, what kind of parts would have been fried?

This is a 47" Westinghouse TX47430S. I guess the good news is that I was never happy with that tv anyway.


** Funny after story. I put tags on this post of "help, wife, might, beat, me" (because of course laughter is the best medicine after you blow up a tv) and got a message saying some terms were omitted because they were too common. The only tags left were beat,wife.

[rlf3911]

I once put a 1/2 inch steel ball bearing(like you shoot out of a sling shot) through a 30" CRT. That was fun.

Damn slingshots are fun, do you ever grow out of them?

[Zero_Cool]

If you live near an HHGREGG they have a place called TOPS. They replace/fix almost anything. I would try them Its 59.99 an hour plus whatever they need to fix unless the tv is still under warrenty. I just got my blu-ray player back from them and is great.

[Uniquely]

Originally Posted by aminwater

If you live near an HHGREGG they have a place called TOPS. They replace/fix almost anything. I would try them Its 59.99 an hour plus whatever they need to fix unless the tv is still under warrenty. I just got my blu-ray player back from them and is great.

I don't have that here. I gave it to her and told her if she can fix it easily great; but that I certainly don't have my hopes up. I've already picked out a replacement to go pick up tomorrow. The good news is that she rewired the receptacle for me, and everything's good to go for the hanging of the new tv tomorrow.

[Aidenag]

I've repaired my own DLP's before(bulb,color wheel, optical unit etc), But a LCD is a totally different thing. The majority of people, even those that are tech savvy really are not up to the task of repairing an LCD.

Your best bet is to contact a local tv repair shop, get a quote(if its even fixable) and if the price is drastically lower than what it would cost to replace it, then have it fixed. If not, get a new one, which sounds like you are leaning toward since you don't even like the make/model in question that much it sounded like.