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Kimbercolt
my cousin has a viore plasma 42 tv, we have some power outtage
the one where the lights flicker, now his screen is bright colors.
any ideas of what might have happened.
the plasma was made by akai. it had a nice picture, before it went to hell
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  • Zebra
    The basic idea of a plasma screen is to illuminate tiny colored fluorescent lights to form an image. Each pixel is made up of three fluorescent lights -- a red light, a green light and a blue light. The plasma display varies the intensities of the different lights to produce a full range of colors. They are very sensitive to electrical spikes. Sounds like the color transmiter chip is damaged. Get a good surge protector.
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  • Colt Super
    Plasma TVs take around 2 years to completely fail.

    Doug
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  • Kimbercolt
    it was on a very good surge surpressor.
    the power dropped off, came back on, dropped off again.
    it came back on 1 hour later, now the plasma is trashed.
    was wondering if it was something easy, or very expensive.
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  • Nwcid
    I dont have an answer to your question but I do have something to add.

    Surge protectors are not enough for todays higher end electronics. At the very least you need a line condition which keeps the voltage constant going to your equipment. The next step up from that would be a backup power supply as it too will keep the voltage constant. The backup also makes sure things like the Fan in a DLP tv will continue to run and cool the very expensive bulb in the case of an outage.
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  • Cubslover
    quote:Originally posted by Nwcid
    The backup also makes sure things like the Fan in a DLP tv will continue to run and cool the very expensive bulb in the case of an outage.


    Same with LCD's. I bought a $150 battery backup/surge protector to runn my LCD and home theater through. Cable, phone, everything runs through it. It also came with a $600,000 insurance policy. It's guaranteed for 5yrs to protect everything plugged into it, and reimburse you up to $600,000 for damaged equipment.

    You may check to see if that surge protector offered some sort of protection policy.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    This is exactly one of the resons I did not go plasma.

    I have heard of this before (although I never did hear the final results of what the problem was).

    Plasma TV's are an unproven technology (by unproven I mean they have no been out long enuff to know any long term things that may happen) where LCD has been around for some time they have just upgraded it to higher quality pictures.

    I hope your cousin can get it fixed without it costing and arm and a leg, but I doubt that will be the case as it more than likely will need to go to the factory.

    If he ends up replaceing it I recomend going to LCD. There just seems to be less problems with them and the technology they are made with.
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