Anyone changed their own LED TV screen?

ferry

Just curious. Was given free TV which has a cracked led screen.

Has anyone with no real experience successfully changed the screen?


Degree of difficulty? Or best left to the experts?


Thanks as usual
F

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it is cracked. A new screen repaired from an expert will probably cost you more than a new tv?. You could have a go? You could sell the boards on ebay?

You could also have put the make and model down, as others may have worked on the same or similar

forgotmyname

Changed one on a laptop, you need to be very sure on the screen model number.

TV's are cheap though. Are you sure its only the screen at fault? Done several repairs now where the capacitors caused power issues.

motorguy

ferry wrote: »

Just curious. Was given free TV which has a cracked led screen.

Has anyone with no real experience successfully changed the screen?


Degree of difficulty? Or best left to the experts?


Thanks as usual
F

I cant see that it will be economically viable. A new screen will be close to the price of a new TV and will almost certainly exceed the price of buying the same TV second hand.

motorguy

forgotmyname wrote: »

Changed one on a laptop, you need to be very sure on the screen model number.

+1

Usually easy done on a laptop and parts are relatively cheap and often readily available.

fwor

Before you buy a new/secondhand screen, I would recommend that you try taking it apart first. The first time I took an LED monitor apart I near enough destroyed the casing in the process.

The problem is that you cannot see the fixings that hold the casing together until you get the casing apart. Generally there are clips, moulded into the case, that require pressure in a specific place and direction in order to release. It is often too easy to split, crack or otherwise damage the casing (and possibly some critical components inside) during the process of finding out where these clips are.