HISENSE ROKU TVs are BUILT TO FAIL!!! ...𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝙎𝙀𝙀!!! ...𝘿𝙊 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝘽𝙐𝙔!!!

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This is a a 2019 Hisense Roku 58" TV that my neighbor gave me to fix. She only had it for 3 or 4 years before it failed. We'll diagnose the problem, attempt to repair it, and show why you should NEVER buy a Hisense TV! This was the most frustrating TV I've ever worked on.
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#electronics #repair #howto
0:00 Intro and Diagnosis
3:15 Disassembly
19:58 Soldering New LEDs
35:35 Then THIS Happened...
37:55 How to Remove Glued LED Strips

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@Arckivio Ай бұрын

I work in LED lighting & it's all about the lasting power of LED's. When they started pumping LED TV's, I don't remember any TV being advertised as lasting longer than it's fluorescent counterpart!!!!

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

That's a thought... I wonder how hard it would be to convert an LED TV to fluorescent... hmm...

@Arckivio Ай бұрын

In the cheaper led TVs that are old carcasses fitted with LEDs, probably not that difficult. Looking at this hisense, I'd say the most expensive part is that diffuser. If it wasn't for that, would be easy and cheap to convert fluorescents to LED

@mealot7613 Ай бұрын

Really depends on the brand. Ive seen the same problem with some samsung models. Sony seems better.

@321CatboxWA Ай бұрын

@@Fixologist1 Kinda like the plazma tv except when it fails you can smell it coming and going like the old days! With the CFL smell ! That's an upgrade in toxicity.

@craigtegeler4677 Ай бұрын

You could use the remnants of the LED framework along with the LED's, reflector and diffusor layers while suspending overhead with chains it in a man cave type room that you bounce around off the walls and reflect back to that day that you ended up getting P.O.'d yet if this were to happen once again and STILL have another shot of bourbon in style; light dimmer and all. It's almost like having a cheap thrill all over again! I know just how you felt, be it that you put your best foot forward Mr. Fixit! That was my knick-name back when i was young too! I've used to do the varieties of work such as you continue to do although I am long retired and just prior I decided to go into computer repairs. Yeah so I've been retired for 14 years now and some days I just decide to twittle my thumbs occasionally and take short cat naps when needed and/or try and go back to doing things that I was not really all that much permitted to do all that much when I was a kid! Back then, I liked the outdoors, I liked raising some hell, I liked doing target practicing, small game hunting and I definitely liked working on cars and motorcycles!!@@Fixologist1

@sillykicker0877 Ай бұрын

I called Hisense for assistance with constant turning on and back off. They told me to throw it out and buy a new one. That pissed me off enough to research to issue and found two capacitors in the power supply. $10.00 later it now works. It is the last Hisense for me.

@henrikschultze1668 Ай бұрын

thank's for writing CAPACITORS , i was trying to remember what component to mention in my reply !!!.

@haajee1 Ай бұрын

Sadly i hear enough about expensive Samsung TV's and washing machines. Just a few weeks over warranty. Speak someone with a Samsung TV and was just a few weeks over warranty. We can't repair and repair costs are to high. We suggest you to throw this "old" tv (little more than 3 years) in the bin and give you discount if you buy a new Samsung TV! Never a Samsung anymore even with discount for that person anymore. Same with the washing machines of Samsung.Just a few weeks/months breaks drum spider of this shit and Samsung offers to buy a new washing machine with big discount from Samsung. No way Samsung!

@gururue5996 Ай бұрын

@@haajee1I personally dont buy anythig Samsung, Had a tv that had issues day one, had it repaired issue fame back and Samsung support told me i must of damaged it myself, Finally got it refunded and never went back to them.

@wykydytron Ай бұрын

Why would you buy cheap Chinese crap in first place?

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

@@wykydytron how many local manufacturers over your way?

@donhozy Ай бұрын

Despite the tragic demise of the screen, after all that work, this video was still delivered some very valuable insight on the nefarious ways manufacturers sabotage our right to repair. Thanks for all you do to show us, what we can do.

@pauljs75 Ай бұрын

Electronics really need to have some kind of repairability score as part of their environmental rating. (Because all that stuff that can't be fixed usually ends up in the landfill.)

@MashaB-pk8hl Ай бұрын

All of it will go to a landfill. There’s no gold to scrape off the circuit boards.

@ericsalidbar1693 Ай бұрын

Exactly I repair electronics as a hobby cause I don't actually make money doing it but I have a high success rate. Well the thing that upsets me the most is ppl throw away video games Controllers which are super easy to repair I have friends and family ask me if I have extra cause they know I do and I ask them what they did with their controllers they tell me they threw them away because they thought they were consumables that can't be fixed.🤦‍♂️🤬 It makes me so upset that companies make ppl think things have to be thrown away and cannot be repair when they call and ask about warranties. They told my sisters kids that because it was used and could not be proven to be a factory defect that they were unrepairable and not covered under their warranty stipulations. You have no idea how many joy cons ppl have given me or thrown away because of stick drift or the housing cracked.

@wandameadows5736 Ай бұрын

"environmental ratings" are a scam to begin with, the EPA is just another fraud buracey run by unelected officials to take away people's individual liberties & continue growing government, they act like the Mob who would charge people for doing business on their turf. The sooner people realize the environment doesn't need humans to take care of it & humans & everything on earth are actually a part of the environment the more individual liberties peoples will have. Government is not your Parents or Guardian or the Earth's Guardian. Everything we make comes from the earth's elements & it eventually gets reintroduced back to the earth to be recycled, its like people that fall for the "microplastics" lie when everyone knows plastics are the opposite of TOXIC & what humans use to preserve things. As far as reparability these tech devices are made so cheap & are so affordable that repairing them cost more than buying a new one. My father was a TV repairman back in the 1960s & 70s & he said the TV repair business died because new TVs were so affordable.

@einarbk885 Ай бұрын

they dont really care about the environment at all, they just pretend to do and make us pay for it with taxes. exactly as planned.

@bsanchez3563 Ай бұрын

@@ericsalidbar1693ooh ikr it is legit a peeve imo is how disposable they want everybody to overlook about many products fwiw now.

@luisvillarreal5262 2 ай бұрын

I repaired two of the LED flat screen TV’s that were going to be junked, so I took the chance/challenge of repairing them. Tore them apart, made my own LED strip tester, located the bad LED’s and ordered them. Popped them in and BAM, two working flat screen TV’s. I made sure to set them on mid brightness, because, apparently, if you have it set on full brightness, it shortens the life of the LED’s. I’m using one and my daughter has the other. Spent under $100. To me it was worth it. A word of advice for those who want to try this, take plenty of pictures of all connections. You’ll be glad you did. Trust me. 😂

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Better yet, make video.

@luisvillarreal5262 2 ай бұрын

@@Fixologist1 Hello Brad. I wish I could have made a video of it. I was going in at it with no clue of what I was doing, but I got tips from another video on this issue, so that was all I had to go by. Winging it, in other words. Took a chance and succeeded. I’ve never made a video before, but I thought about doing one on a guitar mod before. Someday, I guess. 👍

@jorgeponcebianchi6211 Ай бұрын

is not brightens is backlight and change all led or you have to do it again soon

@luisvillarreal5262 Ай бұрын

@@jorgeponcebianchi6211 Yep, I replaced all the strips on both flat screens, because of that reason. And yes, the backlights setting. 👍🏻

@mrgcav Ай бұрын

I CALL BULLSHIT. I repaired TV's Professionally for 25 years. You can not replace individual screen LED's in an LED TV. IMPOSSIBLE. You on early models replace the backllights which were Flouresent tube or LED.

@vitajazz Ай бұрын

I'm an electronic technician, and 80% of this was new to me, both techniques and screen details. Great video! Thank You.

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Bigredtower Ай бұрын

They put more innovation into making things break than making them work.

@steadyeddie7453 Ай бұрын

Planned obsolescence. If it lasted for years we wouldn't keep buying it. But Americans decided a while back that in general we want inexpensive over quality. And the Chinese said game on.

@MrJugNut Ай бұрын

It looks like Hisense has out scumbaged even Apple and that's really saying something.

@jsncrso Ай бұрын

I get the sentiment, but you can get 75" TVs now for under $500. There's no way you are going to build a quality TV for that much without sacrificing quality. If you want something that will last longer, there are more expensive TVs from Sony etc that are built to a much higher standard

@Bigredtower Ай бұрын

@@jsncrso but go to the reviews section on one of those expensive ones, and still find lots of, "only lasted a year", so that seems like an even bigger scam, especially considering the cheap ones are made in the same factories as the expensive ones.

@hurkamur1 Ай бұрын

@@steadyeddie7453That's actually wrong. Toyota is the top selling automaker in the world, they built the brand on dependability. People will become repeat customers if they get a quality device. I bought a second vizio after my 1st had lasted so long I wanted to upgrade. I bought their top of the line P series, and it started having problems a month out of warranty. My friend bought an M series and his had issues after around a year and a half. Now I will never buy another Vizio because of my experience with the brand.

@moonboogien8908 2 ай бұрын

The comment on suction cups to lift the screen was certainly foreshadowing.

@wobblyboost1582 Ай бұрын

I thought I could hear eerie violin music when he said that. 😏

@spectremanLIVE1 Ай бұрын

My own experience just unboxing these things, for set up, had my anxiety through the roof and my expectations in the basement.🤦🏻‍♂️

@stevebabiak6997 Ай бұрын

I haven’t watched the video yet, but from seeing the instructions to disassemble one of these flat screen TVs, you will be needing at least two large flat areas to place some of the screen’s parts. Just to get at the LEDs.

@contrabandjoe7974 2 ай бұрын

I am just old enough to remember the very tail end of the mobile tv repair man (up till roughly 72-ish). My parents had them out a few times when I was a young kid as did several neighbors. I would also see them driving around town. A uniformed guy carrying a small tool box in one hand and a tube caddie in the other would pull into our driveway in a company branded van and fix your ONE television on the spot... something cool about that...

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Those were the days, but they're long gone now.

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 2 ай бұрын

No doubt there. I still have an old Magnavox console TV that I use as a stand for my 4K , but I’m afraid to even plug it in to see if it still works. 😂

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 2 ай бұрын

Maybe it might have some cool valves though ..🤔🤔

@valvenator 2 ай бұрын

@@theofficialdiamondlou2418 Pull out the old innards and turn it into a storage, liquor, display or hi-fi cabinet.

@timmooney7528 2 ай бұрын

I also recall the roving TV repair guys. Last time I saw one was 1974=75. I knew several ahm radio guys that repaired old TV's and appliances as a side business.

@andrewwalsh5837 Ай бұрын

Hi to Fixologist, i work in the trade and Hisense are a nightmare, frustrating when everything is glued/ taped down , also same with other brands, with backlight problems we order the full backlight array strips brand new, there not that expensive but it ensures a bit more reliabilty and not being returned again for the same problem, but so easy to damage in the process, really stressful work and time consuming, but great video that shows people whats involved when working on these modern sets

@peterduxbury927 Ай бұрын

As a question to you, would it not be possible to grab a long length of Dental Floss, to place between the double-sided tape bonded areas. Pulling the Dental Floss from side to side, the friction created - should separate them. Fixologist used a heat Gun, and the white LED Cover Panel shrank. Heat Gun is a no-no.

@interstat2222 12 күн бұрын

Hisense only copying Samsung like everyone. The basic models are always considered disposable and that's why they're cheap. Higher end models are still screwed together.

@lrmackmcbride7498 Ай бұрын

The glue and double sided tape are annoying but during assembly the whole assembly is lowered on to the screen so the diffusers would fall out if the glue and tape wasn't there. It is done that way to reduce cracked screens in asssembly.

@marcuscarrozza732 2 ай бұрын

I remember t.v. repair guys coming to the house replacing tubes and biasing the set in the 1970s . When Brad said "they are Messing with the wrong guy". The first thing that came to mind was Steve Martin in " Planes, trains , & automobiles in the parking lot and things went bad from there .😂

@mrgcav Ай бұрын

Those days are long.

@danalynch8889 Ай бұрын

My dad had a tube tester and would replace them himself. Saved him a lot of money.

@bill360 Ай бұрын

Ages ago lol

@pyeltd.5457 Ай бұрын

Wow you must be vintage man

@majortwit Ай бұрын

Until they stopped making tubes (Russia still makes them, for their critical war electronics. Impervious to atomic weapons pulsations called EMDs.)

@lhmmhl1 2 ай бұрын

Well it was a waste of your time for the tv but take solace knowing you taught me a ton and helped reinforce my views on planned obsolescence. God bless.

@rick343 Ай бұрын

Must be a lot of old timers close to my age, who watched this, Mom and dad had a color console in the living room and a black and white in the den, those TV's lasted at least 20 years or more, and the mobile TV guy lived a few houses down, would come and fix them every time a tube blew, never new what they charged, but that was a different life, and time, which I really prefer compared to now. Cheers to all those who also remember the mobile TV repairman, dial telephones, and shag carpeting, the good ole days. 😎

@uptimod4715 Ай бұрын

I was repairing those sets as a teenager in the good ole days. One thing I don't miss is swapping-out large picture tubes in the older technology CRT televisions. A friend of mine had a small 40 lb portable TV with a vertical hold issue. He fixed it by mounting the set in the window of his mobile home. The picture would stop rolling as the outside air temperature dropped in the evening.

@rick343 Ай бұрын

@@uptimod4715 OH yeah, I had completely forgotten about the dreaded picture tube failure,, seems like I remember, you could always tell when it was the picture tube, you saying that also made me think of the horizontal hold or vertical going out. I just read the rest of your comment about the vertical, I guess things got hot in the back of those old sets.

@mrromantimothy Ай бұрын

I can remember back in the day they had a tube tester at the supermarket, you could take the tubes out of your TV and test them there. If you found a faulty one , you could buy a replacement

@rick343 Ай бұрын

@@mrromantimothy Did not know that, I grew up in a really small town in California, in the 60s and 70s, 3 thousand people, could be they didn't sell them, or me being a kid, was just oblivious, probably the latter. 😁

@ThePaulv12 Ай бұрын

There wasn't much good about, "Them 'ole days," that I can remember. They were crap. Might've been good for some, same as now really.

@0KT0BER Ай бұрын

The plot twist I wasn't expecting. At least you've come away with greater knowledge and done the consumer a good service.

@MikeSmith-sh3ko Ай бұрын

It was a TV repair guy who used to come around to fix our TV that gave me the bug for electronics he also repaired my electronics kit at one time by replacing a faulty transistor that had shorted out. It altered the direction of what I did since then 👍

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

does that mean that as an electronics repair guy, you are now unemployed and unemployable?

@rawjam8542 2 ай бұрын

From awesome welder fabricators to pop riveters and now we have sticky tape engineers taking the world over! LOL ;)

@765kvline Ай бұрын

It wasn't a "waste of time" because I learned a great deal from your experience, your video taught a great deal about current-day quality of these things and learned much about flux and soldering with LEDs. You did a terrific job of working on this television and video. You've also made it clear that Chinese (and possibly other low-end) televisions are poorly made and built to low standards. Great video. Enjoyed it immensely. Watched through to the end. You've saved me and others a lot of money by avoiding these sets.

@stevebabiak6997 Ай бұрын

The LED issue seen here affects other brands too; I have a 55 inch Samsung that has need of a similar fix - LEDs not lighting up sections on the screen.

@pdtech4524 Ай бұрын

Hisense technical R&D department - Dam we need to find a stronger glue, apply more of it and add some heat resistant extra strength double sided tape strips and twice as many strips....this guy defeated our repair defense mechanisms! 😮😊 Edit - ah we got him with the backup repair defense system, the incredibly fragile display panel, one wrong move or apply any pressure and CRACK!😁🤔

@wobblyboost1582 Ай бұрын

Yeah that just makes my skin crawl, charging the consumer to pay for extra time and materials that serve only to ensure that when it definitely dies inside 5 years, it's an economic write-off.

@dennys726 Ай бұрын

I had a 55" Hisense TV that the went out just like that after 4mo back in 2014. Hesense said that the purchase was only warrantees for 90 days. It sat in my (Apt) living room until I moved Dec 2016 when I snuck it into the bottom of the dumpster while moving. I have a 36" Hisense that has lasted 3yrs so far. I have 2 othe 36" TVs that died before this one, that I haven't had the chance to take to the dump.(recycle). Thanks for this video. Being a retired, disabled vet and thanks to your video,, I have them to practice the skills you've shown, without expectations. Thank you, Denny S

@TonicofSonic Ай бұрын

I saw a documentary where it showed how back in the day appliances didn't break but rather they went on cross country adventures. I think it was called The brave little toaster.

@68CHUCKLES Ай бұрын

I took the backlight and hung it upside down from the ceiling. Makes a great WORKLIGHT !!!!!! Gonna put two more in the office !

@RoughJustice2k18 Ай бұрын

I read a story about a guy who took some LED backlights and turned them into lights for his Xmas tree.

@stinkycheese804 Ай бұрын

Meh, you still have to rig up the power supply and hopefully do it in a SAFE way, all to end up with no more lighting and a lot more bulk than you'd get from a $20 work light from the hardware store. Plus it looks ghetto. ;)

@68CHUCKLES Ай бұрын

Doesn't look ghetto - there's a stylish TV frame around it AND it was all free.

@roberthayes6329 Ай бұрын

The whole story here is how the back light burns out. This guy rips apart good working Tv's just to get a craptastic form of lighting. 😂

@68CHUCKLES Ай бұрын

@@roberthayes6329 NO. TV is broken, but backlight still works !

@MagnusPaul1976 Ай бұрын

I have never been a fan of Hisense ! They manufacture the worst top loading washing machine models ever, so it is understandable that their televisions are not any good either... And that is just my opinion. 👍

@SyntaxScout Ай бұрын

After the 90's everything created is designed on purpose to break even faster,build good = no profit,is that simple.

@Steve3dot1416 Ай бұрын

Nothing better and secure than repairing a TV on a static conductive carpet on the floor with so many things around it who can fall or step on it. If only a flat steady surface was available on every home with maybe some chairs around to sit while I work...

@LordSamuelJ Ай бұрын

I bought one of these pieces of garbaage a few years ago to replace my old sony trinitron tube tv. It has since stopped working and im back to watching the sony trinitron. Its not just Hisence, most new products are cheaply built and only meant to last a couple years

@jamesnewton485 Ай бұрын

I have a small Sears brand b/w tv my parents bought me in 1982 at 12 years old. It still works.

@stevebabiak6997 Ай бұрын

When I was fixing TVs on the side in 1980s, aluminum electrolytic capacitors would be the common failure. Easy to fix BTW.

@soaphelps Ай бұрын

it is amazing how hard they are driving leds now. everyone that comes over to watch movies complain about how dim my tv is. its a hisense from 2014 and still kicking. make sure you take it off store/demo mode also that will cook it in a couple years.

@BizDiva Ай бұрын

I have never liked this brand that you're working on. It only lasted 4 years! I have a Samsung whose LED lights (5 so far) have just started dropping off and it is 14 years old! Time to buy a new one. I appreciate your doing this and solidifying why I will NEVER buy a Hise nse TV. Thank you!

@Zickcermacity Ай бұрын

Just a tip that I feel has allowed me to enjoy the same backlit flat screen TV for nearly ten years: My unboxing and setup includes taking the TV out of factory/store mode as soon as I have a picture up on it. 1. Change "Picture Mode" from "Vivid" or Dynamic to Movie or Custom. 2. Set the Backlight as low as you can comfortably view in a room with your typical lighting setting. **Most sets with a Backlight setting have it by default to Max, which alone shortens the life of the display** 3. In the Advanced Picture menus, turn off/disable every enhancement you see listed: Auto Motion, Dynamic Contrast, Dynamic Brightness, Dynamic this, Dynamic my-ass, etc. Flesh Tone enhancer, digital noise reduction, turn it all OFF. 4. All you need are the five basic settings: Contrast, Brightness, Color, Hue/Tint, Sharpness, and a sixth: Color temperature(set to warm).

@uptimod4715 Ай бұрын

Excellent advice! And how about the company provide a simple user option that would do all of what you suggest, by including an LED longevity choice in the user menu. For the greater good of the planet, to conserve energy and precious resources. Produce less electronic waste from disposable product purchased and shipped over and over again, overseas from China. I think this should be a priority well ahead of banning gas stoves.

@Zickcermacity Ай бұрын

@@uptimod4715 Most LED/OLED/QLED/4K/8K sets have, during initial setup, an option for the owner to select either 'Store'/Retail or Home use mode. Even then, these flat screens are by default in the Dynamic or Vivid user picture mode, and most set owners either don't know or don't care beyond just selecting Home use. My attempts at educating the public, in a store, fell on deaf ears, and piss-poor attitudes: "I'm the one shopping for the TV, I'll set it up the way I want!" Etc. The toughest task of all is explaining to consumers that the picture you see on sets in the store is to help the TV stand out in that environment, and not at all indicative of HD or 4K's true potential. It's engrained in most consumer brains that the overly bright, sharpened, blue-scaled over-saturated mess they see at the store is the way HD is "supposed to look like".

@bionicca Ай бұрын

Yep, I've been doing all of that since those "features" came into existence, aand I petty much black out my bedroom windows, which allows for low settings around the clock I had to do an emergency tv replace at the worst time possible & grabbed my 1st bottom of barrel hisense A6H, and I honestly didn't hate it for a bedroom tv that I almost exclusively use for HDR content...but it just zonked at 1 year & 4 months old while I was watching it, then behaved just like this 1 in the vid I do make the choice of leaving most electronics on 24/7 to avoid thermal fatigue, but restarted this tv often to clear caches/reset to keep it running smoothly

@bionicca Ай бұрын

@@uptimod4715Agreed about planned obsolescence In instances of plastic containing electronics & other similar products, it seems that this should be a global environmental issue at this point ...aand china and any other country or business, chronically, purposefully, creating garbage should get astronomical fines & the squeeze to force them to cease & desist such environmentally devastating unethical practices

@bionicca Ай бұрын

@@uptimod4715agreed that this should be viewed as an environmental issue

@skullheadwater9839 2 ай бұрын

I can tell you about 5 years ago my mother bought me a flat screen TV even though I had a modern CRT type which worked well. She figured it was a nice gesture even though I actually kinda still wanted my CRT and I still have it. Anyway, to the point, that TV lasted a week then crashed, I had to bring it back and upgrade to a nicer one. The second one lasted about a month then started giving me intermittent problems which made me have to again trade it in for a credit and upgrade. The third one lasted a year, I am now on my fourth "smart TV" in 5years. Meanwhile the TV I had which still worked perfectly when Katrina hit in late 2005 was from 1989 but went under 5 feet of water. I got the CRT type I spoke of in 2006 and I still have it and it works. They don't make em how they used to gets more obvious every year.

@grabasandwich 2 ай бұрын

The last CRT I bought around '03 only lasted til '07 I think. Forget what brand, but it started glitching whenever there was a hard vibration on the floor. My toddler at the time figured it out and would jump in front of it and laugh! 😂

@skullheadwater9839 Ай бұрын

@@jackd.ripper9216 don't even get me started on LED bulbs I flipping hate them. When they first were talking about illegal icing and conditions are stocked up on a ton of them I got at least 15 to 20 years worth of incandescent bulbs.

@wobblyboost1582 Ай бұрын

If the aim was to make smarter landfill, then this tech is a total boon to mankind.

@TexasCat99 Ай бұрын

CRTs failed a lot as well. But in general, if they last 2-3 years, they can last 15+ years. I miss my old Sony TVs. Each lasted over 20 years. So far, every used LCD TV I've gotten from a local repair shop has lasted 5+ years each, so they have about a 10-year life span. He tells me that various brands are worse than others. Back to CRTs. I've had Samsung replace in-warranty CRT monitors on their dime. And had Samsung CRT TVs that lasted about 10yrs, not as much as my SONYs. Since there's a lot more LCDs nowadays, we have more repair issues with them. They could be better, but its cheaper for them this way.

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

@skullheadwater9839 You have to stop watching sport on TV. Well, either that, or swap teams to ones more successful! (LED TVs are much less impact resistant than tube TVs) By the way, thanks for the chuckle with that "modern CRT type (TV)" line

@dennisduran8500 Ай бұрын

Anyone else remember the 35" picture tube tv ? TV delivery guys still have bad backs from those things.

@bionicca Ай бұрын

Yep, me & a buddy took turns blasting one with a shotty when were kids ...not a scratch 😅

@mrgcav Ай бұрын

I used to sell and deliver them. We used a special hydraulic dolly to move them.

@RoughJustice2k18 Ай бұрын

35" was not a CRT size here in Australia. We did have 32" Sony and Philips sets though.

@xAnAngelOfDeathx Ай бұрын

First generation 42" plasma tv's weighed a ton.

@slalomking Ай бұрын

We had a 36 Sony. Moved it with 3 guys

@johndurrett7075 Ай бұрын

My first flat was a top of the line vizio. 20 years old and still going.

@GrantsPassTVRepair Ай бұрын

Thanks for the reminder, on why I no longer repair TVs, and why most of the TV repair shops have closed down, or started repairing other devices to keep their doors open.. Even though you were successful at replacing the bad LEDs before the display cracked, It's been my experience, that after your LEDs start to burn out, the others will soon be going bad, so this kind of repair will not last too long. The saving grace for my business, is after telling my customers their TVs aren't worth repairing, they often hire me to come out, and hook up their replacement TVs, and thankfully I still get home service calls for customer operational errors, TV antennas, and streaming video setups for people who don't understand what a WiFi Password is, or what it means to push the wrong input button on their TVs, I still do a few electronic repairs, but I've mostly phased out TV repair. All the best.

@pauljs75 Ай бұрын

I almost feel like there is some potential opportunity in resto-modding some 1980's and 1990's electronics. Seems a lot of boomboxes and stereo units from that period have better tuners, amplifiers, and tape mechanisms than anything that tries to clone them in the current market. All they really need is some kind of aux-in and Bluetooth added, and maybe a more robust rechargeable battery setup if portable. Other than that, fresh capacitors and new or re-coned speakers and that stuff is golden. But I'm not sure how a shop would go about advertising it - if only people knew then there would be a demand.

@GrantsPassTVRepair Ай бұрын

@@pauljs75 I have a few people asking me where they can get their older stereos repaired, so there is a need if you have the ambition to do them.

@Pyrolonn Ай бұрын

That's why I thought the repair was an exercise in futility. Unless you replace all the LEDs the others are likely going to go in short order. They were also brighter and possibly noticeable.

@colintinker7778 Ай бұрын

Did this same job. Replaced the faulty LEDs and they all lit up after testing. Went to get the screen which I had propped against the wall. To my horror it was absolutely destroyed by my Labrador who had leant against it. 4 hours of my day wasted.

@johnjingleheimersmith9259 Ай бұрын

This is why electronics enthusiasts at most only own cats.

@peterduxbury927 Ай бұрын

@@johnjingleheimersmith9259Love your comment!

@fredflickinger643 Ай бұрын

Sad but funny as my daughter has Golden Retriever who is not in touch with his size!

@colintinker7778 Ай бұрын

@@fredflickinger643 I couldn't be cross with my dog. It was my fault for leaving the screen where he could lay against it. Lesson learnt... It won't happen again!

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggg!! the sound of a colin tinkerer who wished he had chosen to be colin carpenter.

@MrDmd93 Ай бұрын

I work as a Maintenance man at a nursing home.There are an average of 160 residents. They all have a 32”tv and we have around 6 different brands.A lot of them are on from the morning until they shut them off to go to sleep. The majority of the TV’s were bought around 12 years ago and have a decent picture although from the sides you can see every backlight. We do average replacing a tv every couple weeks though. The vast majority of them are newer TV’s bought within the last 4 years. The old ones seem to be made much better!They might have been twice the price but they are lasting 3 or 4 times as long!They are all the major brands

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

Advantages and disadvantages of newer and older. If you pay a pittance for your coal-generated power then consumption doesn't matter much, but it is an issue in many places. The power consumption of TVs continues to drop year by year... that in itself is a factor for me.

@csumme7 Ай бұрын

...and this is why us old TV repairmen are no longer in business. They make the stuff so cheaply they are not worth repairing, just replace the whole thing.

@johnjingleheimersmith9259 Ай бұрын

Depends on what TV you're talking about top models start at 2k then up to 10k for high end samsung gigantor screens. Certainly not a "just replace it" sorta thing if your multigrand investment dies on you.

@csumme7 Ай бұрын

@@johnjingleheimersmith9259 and is why I stick to my 2-300 euro non smart TV. Lasts for ten years and if it goes out I just get a new one.

@csumme7 Ай бұрын

@@johnjingleheimersmith9259 That is why i stick with 2-300 euro non smart TVs. They last for ten years typically and if something goes out they can easily just be replaced.

@slalomking Ай бұрын

Yep, just replace them nowadays

@peterduxbury927 Ай бұрын

Old TV men will always fix their own Flat Screen TVs. They are an easy fix by comparison to the old CRT versions, and up to 25Kv inside - which was a hazard.

@camberwellcarrot420 Ай бұрын

The strategy is to buy Hisense at Costco with the 5-yr. extended warranty. They give you all your money back when it fails within 5 years, then you go buy another Hisense with warranty. Rinse, repeat. Mind you, I bought a higher tier 120 Hz Google TV model the second time, and I quite like it, so I'd miss it if it died. Backlight killed the first Hisense too.

@stinkycheese804 Ай бұрын

So by doing this, you are stuck watching a crappy low quality TV FOREVER? Once you factor in the hassle of doing that, it becomes worthwhile to just buy a top tier brand instead, unless you think that very soon you will want to replace it with a higher resolution or screen size, but even then it is often useful to have the old set keep working and demote it to use in the bedroom or elsewhere instead of the primary living room set.

@Taluvian Ай бұрын

Why even bother with all that? Seems like a lot of work for little gain as cheap as good brand TVs are today.

@FordExplorer420 Ай бұрын

The way these TVs work is like Christmas lights if one goes out the whole section is out Highly recommended to replace all LEDs to prevent more failures Replacement LED strips come with out the resistor for longer life and better picture

@paulstaf Ай бұрын

I do these kinds of repairs on my bed and I use a large piece of cardboard the size of the LCD panel. I gently raise the lcd a little and slide the cardboard under the lcd like you would a pizza, then lift it off. I put it back together the same way, position the cardboard with the LCD over the frame and slowly remove the cardboard.

@russelldaniels1797 Ай бұрын

I bought a 65" TCL Roku in 2019, it's led backlighting burned out after a year and a half. Repair guy burned me for a deposit and never completed the repair. I then got a 70" ONN Roku that lasted a year and a half. Led backlighting burned out. I'm on my third one in past 5 years now. 😢

@oralpierce45 Ай бұрын

It shows me not to buy brands from a company's like this. Keep up the good work. Love your show

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

@DanPitrello 2 ай бұрын

I fixed a TCL Roku with the same problem. I cut the reflector to get the LED'S out.

@Tugolandia Ай бұрын

It wasn't a waste of time. It was a great lesson. Thank you.

@Randy.E.R Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video with us. I am not even sure how it wound up in my feed, especially since I wasn't searching for it. I happen to own a Hisense 50RSE3 that we bought from Walmart several years ago, and we must be the luckiest people in the world when it comes to owning one. We live in Ridgecrest California where in 2019 the area was it with a magnitude 6.4 earthquake followed a day later by a 7.1 earthquake. The TV hit the floor and the entertainment center landed on top of it. After cleaning up what we could salvage from the living room, the TV worked as well as it did when it was purchased. Yeah, it has a few scratches, but I expected that it was destroyed.

@erichamradio919 Ай бұрын

Good try! My 58” Hisense failed like that but only after 14 months. I bought a 65” TCL …so far I love it.

@bionicca Ай бұрын

16 months for me Just out of curiosity, how old is the TCL now? I've been wondering about them, there doesn't seem to be such a wealth of trash talk for them, as hisense ...but I only just turned my attention toward them Hopefully you have better luck, aand plz keep is posted

@ChosenOneDan Ай бұрын

I just get the 5 year best buy warranty. if it fails before then then it gets replaced no cost from me. if it lasts past 5 years then I got my money out of it.

@bionicca 28 күн бұрын

@@ChosenOneDan It's definitely a comfort to have the coverage But after seeing this, I feel it's all but guaranteed that chinese + budget (& possibly just chinese OR budget in general)tv's made over the past few years, have near perfect odds of breaking fast Which, even with the coverage...means going without & dealing with home visits, or tearing it down packin' it up & driving it back, at best I'm not really familiar with the process for doing all that with best buy, but if I've got my facts straight ...their coverage only kicks in once the manufacturer warranty is up, aand last I saw, hisense comes with a 3 year Which means dealing with hisense 1st, if it dies quickly, no? Unfortunately steering clear of hisense, vizio, tcl & roku is likely to guarantee some kind of compromise as far as OS/available apps/features Samsung instantly shuts us out from dolby vision, which A LOT of premium content is in, aand it's great Sony seems to be one of the most solid...but that's reflected in the price LG I'm not an expert on, but I know their OLED's are the biz...but may be the only ones from them that come with dolby vision However LG’s OS & browser seem a bit restrictive/inflexible as far as being able to access anything that they don't spoon feed you, like qobuz & tidal for hi-res music Anyway, I just couldn't stand the thought of putting $ into something I'm 98% sure will be garbage as quickly as 1 - 2 yrs...if not functioning garbage from day 1 In replacing mine that just died, I really HAD to get something I have faith at least has a chance to make it 5+ yrs After adjusting my thinking & weeks of new learning & searching within my criteria ...I got LUCKY asf & found what appeared to be the last LG A2 Oled that was findable online...open box for just over $500 before tax & 5 yr Aand what an upgrade it is...despite the fringe features I lost in my "compromise"

@TheDave31london Ай бұрын

I love brining things back to life after other people have given up on them. Sometimes to the point it would have been cheaper to buy a working used one but its the achievement of the fix. I feel your pain on this one, done it a few times myself, fixed something only to drop it etc. great video and you have a new subscriber!

@eroticmasterbaker 15 күн бұрын

I'm in the process of ghetto fixing a garbage tv with 12 volt led striplighting

@johnnyhawk329 Ай бұрын

Ive had one of these in the 50 inch size for 5 years. Plays at least 12-14 hrs, a day. Still works perfect.

@TeeDohJackson Ай бұрын

The same thing happened with my Mom's Hisense 🙄 She got little knat flies in her house one summer and they were attracted to the inside film and you could see them whenever you're watching tv. So I got them out and right when I was clipping it back together the screen snapped 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

@phil36135 2 ай бұрын

Heart breaking, but you fixed the problem and I learned some cool stuff so in a way it was a success. Those screen are like a paper thin piece of ice just wanting to break if you look at it wrong. Still another awesome video. Thanks and looking forward to the next project.

@timmooney7528 2 ай бұрын

I had a Samsung which took longer and longer to start up. I found a capacitor kit on Amazon and swapped out all the capacitors on the low power board. The caps didn't look bad or leaky, but they were defective.

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Nice save.

@abandonlife111 Ай бұрын

Thank-you for your service.💻

@NitroModelsAndComics Ай бұрын

I bought a Westinghouse 55" in 2016 and it still has a beautiful picture nd has never given me one tiny issue. I paid 700.00 and I consider it the best 700.00 I have ever spent.

@DRACOS1313 Ай бұрын

well , if you put the diffusers back on and just power the lights , you have a really bright light fixture that is light and low profile . hang it OR make a light table for art !

@tcainnine Ай бұрын

Not a total loss.... I learned something. Thank you for the knowledge!!

@henrikschultze1668 Ай бұрын

yes - capacitors was the name i was looking for , place them near all the HEAT in electronics and it is now design'd NOT to last !!!

@MagikGimp Ай бұрын

Not a complete waste of time as this is good advice for a fairly straightforward fix. I'm sure I've seen this fault before and just assumed the TV was a goner.

@bionicca 28 күн бұрын

Yep...aand shows that not turning on doesn't automatically mean the power source died too, which is very useful info

@tom75uk Ай бұрын

I had one of these in the UK it literally lasted under 12 months and one day after the warranty finish never buy this brand ever again. after this I bought a TLC TV 4k I've had it for three years and it still working

@stevebabiak6997 Ай бұрын

TCL perhaps rather than TLC?

@80s_Gamr Ай бұрын

Had a Hisense 55" that was showing what looked to be RF interference just shy of being two years old. I suspected a bad cable between the encoder and the LCD. It was still under warranty... but if course I had to send it back to them on my own dime. Took about 5 weeks to get it back and sure enough the repair was replacing that cable. A year later it started doing it again. At that point I sold it cheap and moved on to something of better quality.

@brasshopper Ай бұрын

I remember in the late 1950s my grandparents had a B&W TV. When it stopped working we would take all the tubes out and take them to the neighborhood tester. But they would all be good, so we would plug them in and call the repairman. He would come by and he wouldn't be able to fix it on the spot, so he would take the chassis out of the furniture part, take it to the shop. Weeks or even months later they would bring the chassis back and put the tv back together. Imagine. No working screen in the house for weeks. You know, today i have alternatives. I can watch TV on my phone or my laptop. Back then? One tv per house, i remember crawling into the tv to do puppet shows. Never happen today. And the new cost of the disposable TV, in adjusted dollars, is probably less than the repair was.

@trr5291 Ай бұрын

Hisense is trash. My sister bought one in 2021. The screen is already black. I told her I would look at it. She said no. She just went and bought a new TV. I have a ten year old Emerson tv. It still works fantastically.

@rickyschadel1333 Ай бұрын

my previous hisense tv was a 2011 walmart black friday special. 42" it was simply a previous year emerson television. used the same remote codes, had the same fcc numbers, used the same replacement parts on the parts websites. emerson doesnt exist anymore. its a zombie brand made by a chinese factory i forgot the name of. the same factory that makes hisense and most other tv brands.

@trr5291 Ай бұрын

@rickyschadel1333 Funai built Emerson televisions. Hisense, onn and other cheap tvs are made by Intertek. They are a chinese mass production company. I don't know if Funai is a good company. I do know my 10 year old Emerson tv still works though. Including the built-in Dvd player. I have a onn tv in my living room. I'm not expecting it to last long. Maybe 4-5 years.

@ToothlessInKentucky Ай бұрын

These screens break way too easy. In 2016 I had just bought a brand new 55 inch HiSence TV from Walmart and had my screen shatter just by barely touching it with little force. I had tried to sit it on a home entertainment center and the screen shattered when my hand lightly touched it. It was shocking to find out how brittle these screens really are, and my warranty was void. I had to eat the cost. This was an expensive lesson for me. Now I treat all new tv screens as being the eggshells they really are.

@user-lx3th5on8l Ай бұрын

It even breaks just by breathing on it 😂😂😂😂

@bionicca Ай бұрын

At least eggs are strong in A (one) way

@jamesmitchell1780 Ай бұрын

When you buy low priced electronic junk from Walmart, why are you surprised by how it is built?

@ToothlessInKentucky Ай бұрын

@@jamesmitchell1780 For $500 I expect the screen not to be so fragile. Walmart is not the problem, the product is.

@pcallas66 Ай бұрын

Even though you had the mishap at the end, you taught me a few things: 1. HiSense TVs are not the best built. 2. How to get around some of the problems with the difusers being taped and LED strips being glued. 3. I never tried it but didn't realize an LED would light up on the semiconductor setting on a multimeter. 4. Using intense heat from a heat gun to solder an LED onto a power strip with using flux without destroying the LED with heat. 5. Although it may have been a general waste of time to work on something like this, you proved it can be done with a lot of patience. I really do appreciate the video. Thank you.

@Mike_H76 Ай бұрын

4. he's not using a "heat gun", it's a purpose designed rework gun or "hot air rework station"... same idea but more concentrated and the rework goes up to around 850-900f. They're not expensive, even if you get the cheapest 'zon one you can find and it fixes a single tv, it's paid for itself.

@fanman421 Ай бұрын

I believe it was in the 60’s when RCA got in trouble for intentionally leaving just enough air in television picture tubes so they would fail shortly after the warranty expired.

@Not_Today101 Ай бұрын

This is why I roll my eyes about environmentalist because if the government was serious about global warming they would make these companies make things be able to be fixed instead of throwing away.

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

It's supposed to be the job of the public to not be stupid and avoid buying crap voluntarily without government intervention or babying. Clearly the "public" is either too stupid, and/or devoid of viable and economical options.

@Not_Today101 Ай бұрын

@@Fixologist1 They should have to have a repair rating on each product. Because it's impossible to know until someone takes it apart.

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

This is exactly why I make these type of videos. I appreciate when others do it and inform me, so I'm trying to return the favor or pay it forward. @@Not_Today101

@bionicca Ай бұрын

@@Fixologist1 right...if we'd refuse to buy they're shoddy products ...they'd be forced to develop more sincere manufacturing standards It's their fault 1st...but then it becomes ours, if we don't discourage them from continuing

@bionicca Ай бұрын

@@Not_Today101 well most of what I've seen from hisense comes with a 3 years warranty They're failing under warranty, and I don't know 1st hand, but it sounds like a bit of a nightmare to get warranty repairs I actually just saw a horror story from someone who got the equipment protection from asurion Aand they refused to do the replacement, because it was still under factory warranty This was a shock to me, 'cause I've always gotten the equipment protection as a way to be able to just eaily replace things in my local store, without having to deal with a foreign manufacturer But most of us know by now, at least a lot of the time, that insurance is only good 'til you need it

@copernicofelinis Ай бұрын

Hi sense a disturbance in the force ...

@jlk311 Ай бұрын

i appreciate your commentary

@GlenWhatley Ай бұрын

BTW, the techs who do the LED replacement, have suction cup thingies like glaziers have to safely remove the TFT screen to not have happen what happened to you. (TFT= Thin Film Transistors) Also, you have to set the TFT screen (as well as all the filter sheets) on a completely dust/dirt/debris free blanket as even the smallest dust particle or dust bunny will become very obvious when reassembled & the LEDs shine thru all the filters. Also, the order & orientation of the filter screens is critical to end up with a viewable picture.

@LucyZamb Ай бұрын

Damnit.. Brad I am mad right along with you....but at least like you said, you are amassing some good parts for led tvs ...I look forward to your fixologist project vids ...

@HOLOCULT 2 ай бұрын

Deliver alot of Hisense products at work. Fridges, tvs, and other electronics and appliances... They are notoriously bad. Fridges last about 1-3 years. Delivered and entire low rise apartment building all Hisense fridges. I was back almost once a week to bring new fridges about a year later.

@steadyeddie7453 Ай бұрын

It's Chinese junk. And we just keep buying more of it.

@fasteddie8782 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the information. I cannot believe how that TV is so simple. I learn more in watching this and in years and years of wandering how this f****** thing works... It's still beyond belief that you can get such a good picture out of that little amount of LEDs,??!!..wow...genius thank you

@Speeddemon3 Ай бұрын

What a great fix, and daring if I may add! Just found your channel and I myself am a DIY'er. I figure if it's already broke, what could I possibly do? Cu dos for showing the whole video, as soon as I heard that crunch my head dropped. Thanks for all the hard work in your videos and taking the time showing everyone how to repair absolute crap! Much respect from a neighbor to the north!

@technoman9000 Ай бұрын

If it's already broke, you can either fix it or make it more broke... fun either way.

@ferrellsl Ай бұрын

I bought two 55" Hisense TVs back in 2012 and they're still going strong. They've been excellent so far. Things must have changed over the past 12 years.

@dammitdad Ай бұрын

Mine too. It was cheap and we don't use it very much and we had little expectations from the start. I guess we are happy then. Certainly more happy than if we had paid double for a sony. Most of my Sony products failed early like my PS3 and sxrd projection tv.

@booboo699254 Ай бұрын

There are different levels of Hisense, and obviously the lowest cost versions for Walmart are going to be cheaper built.

@ferrellsl Ай бұрын

@@booboo699254 Both of mine were purchased at Walmart and as I said earlier, both are still going strong after 12 years. No complaints at all.

@allenrussell6135 Ай бұрын

Yes they've changed. A buddy of mine is so pissed over two Samsung's he bought 13 months ago and both are dead.

@Tony-rl2fr Ай бұрын

Same here, 46", roughly 10 years ago, still works fine.

@classicdude-mike8174 Ай бұрын

you could make a grow light for your "tomato" seedlings with those leds

@eroticmasterbaker 15 күн бұрын

Totally

@smj_ Ай бұрын

It'll screw it up, unless you use a screwdriver. This exact reason (not Hisense, but Seiki, so very similar) is why we decided to replace rather than the potential $50 plus time for all the things needed for repair. Great video for some nice soldering techniques, and total diagnosis and repair!

@repairfreak Ай бұрын

Can totally relate, been fixing electronics, tvs, stereos, guitar amps etc on/off for last 30 years. My 1st large screen backlight repair came to me in the form of an RCA. It was a POS also with paper cardboard reflector. I ended up tearing the crap out of it removing it, but fortunately was able to use white tape to piece it back together. Fortunately, for me, I was able to access the backlighting from the rear of the TV leaving the LCD panel still in place. I did end up replacing one or two LEDS. This RCATV was only a few years old as well during the time of the repair and since has failed a second time, probably with another LED burning out. The damn LEDs are like cheap Chinese Christmas tree lightbulbs in this particular TV. They must’ve used the cheapest grade possible. This TV has since been scrapped for the customer didn’t want to reinvest in a second repair. I personally thought this TV never had a good picture from the very beginning, much inferior to a Samsung or other brands. Keep your chin up and continue on with your repairs my friend. Best wishes ✌️😎👍

@dddevildogg 2 ай бұрын

Take comfort in knowing many of us watching you here have had so many similar waste of time POS crap on our bench that ended up in THE DUMPSTER after hours of extremely delicate and highly technical repairs using years of skills Sometimes you're the fly Sometimes you're the fly swatter Reality What a concept I have three Samsungs from 2005 that have worked flawlessly...and yet so many people have landfilled theirs long go.Hisense is merely exploiting the mass production/price point and MTBF algorithms -probably cost them $20 to make that TV These will take thousands of years to disintegrate into the the toxins they were made from.

@globaldeception7414 Ай бұрын

I used to fix Satans tools. Made good money to fix Satans tools.. but Unless the TV is used for security Cameras or for research use its no good... The programming is so bad you get head aches

@andreamitchell4758 Ай бұрын

You mean the electric rabbi

@LeAnn57 Ай бұрын

After the third roku tv went out I bought a Samsung smart tv and have had no problem with it. All 3 of the roku tv's back lights went out.

@mitropoulosilias Ай бұрын

it is amazing how thin those panels are... they need ultra care they brake for fun

@bluegizmo1983 Ай бұрын

I had a Sony Bravia, also a 2018 or 2019, that did the exact same thing. ONE led went out and the whole TV refused to turn on. Luckily for that TV somebody had already figured out how to bypass the led failure detection by cutting a pcb trace if i recall to make the TV work again without fixing the bad led, and once it was working again the bad led was BARELY even noticeable, and even then only if it was pointed out to you.

@Fixologist1 Ай бұрын

Problem is, the board will put out the same voltage as before and the other LEDs will split the extra voltage between them. Not terrible if it's one only, but when it gets up to two or more, they'll all start burning up in rapid succession.

@mrromantimothy Ай бұрын

Buy a 99 cent store flashlight, and harvest the LEDs out of it to make some jumpers

@PlanetaryThoughts9861 2 ай бұрын

I should have gotten my 32" Sylvania CRT style tv fixed instead of going digital flat screen junk!

@railbaron9 Ай бұрын

Parts for those units are long. Plus the tuner wouldn't work on the new signals.

@technoman9000 Ай бұрын

CRTs do have a certain "je ne sais quoi"

@07HDFatboy Ай бұрын

I have two Hisense TV’s a 48” and a 58”. Both are almost three years old and have had no problems with ether one.

@siliconinsect Ай бұрын

We shot a bunch of these for New Years'. That's how worthless they are. I've bypassed LEDs on similar cheap TVs only to have them last another month or two. New sub and great video viewed on my Pioneer PDP from 2006 with 40k hours.

@steadyeddie7453 Ай бұрын

Nice! I have one of the original Pioneer PDP 5040's HDG I bought in Japan on Base for $5,300. Still works today. But because Japan decided to build this tv with the best of every component, sales were weak, and eventually Panasonic bought the rights.

@neodonkey Ай бұрын

They're wired in series, if you bypass the LEDs you're increasing the voltage to the remaining ones and they'll burn out even quicker.

@jfkastner Ай бұрын

My TCL/Roku died TWICE because of bad bloating Capacitors, first 2 went bad, now another 3. Easy to Fix, took them from an old PC Powersupply. TBH the Thing is now 8 Years old ;-)

@eroticmasterbaker 15 күн бұрын

I think mine has bad capacitors

@zaphodbeeblebrox9443 Ай бұрын

I worked at a consumer electronics store for years. The Hisense brand was also sold through us one day. Compared to other TV brands like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, LG, Toshiba, Sharp, Loewe and all the ones I've forgotten, Hisense had significantly higher return numbers mainly due to defects. For that reason I found the name very fitting. If you pronounce Hisense in German, in the area where I live it sounds exactly like hi sen se, which in our dialect in southern Germany means: they are defective.

@joeybobbie1 Ай бұрын

Hi, I just came across your Videos, and I’m glad I did. This was really interesting. Sadly I have the same exact Model TV… New Subscriber, and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos.👍👍

@edwardhartmann1798 Ай бұрын

Honestly I don't think they used tape specifically to make it unrepairable. It looks more like they cheaped out and made the diffuser and reflective layers so thin that without tape securing them they would likely move in shipping.

@prolotomasi1150 2 ай бұрын

I don't have a Hisense or a TV license. Hail from the communist nightmare that is the UK, the country where everything sucks

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, the UK has turned to shit. I hate to say it.

@cantyouhearmeknocking1961 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the US is right on the UK's heels.@@Fixologist1

@generalshakewell Ай бұрын

Awe man. Felt like a punch to the gut when I saw that screen. Greatly informative video though.

@kittyfanatic1980 Ай бұрын

Whelp, Time to rip out the now fixed LED strips and eBay them.😞

@godofwhiskey Ай бұрын

they still sell this TV at wallmart for $280 and you can get a 5 year warranty for another $40. Hisense tends to be $500 at a minimum cheaper then Sony or Samsung for 90% of the picture quality. That said building a TV so cheap that it is cheaper to buy a new one if you don't know how to repair it yourself makes me cry inside.

@redbaron6805 Ай бұрын

That may have been the case years ago, not so much today. Now Hisense is around $20 cheaper, if that...

@godofwhiskey Ай бұрын

@@redbaron6805Depends where you live I guess in Canada, I did a quick check and it is like $900 for U7K and Samsung competitor is like $1600.

@redbaron6805 Ай бұрын

@@godofwhiskey It may be model specific I guess. Checking stores like Target in the USA, the HiSense is about the same as a Vizio or an LG of the same size and specs and the prices appear to be very similar. It is however always difficult to do an Apples to Apples comparison as there are specific models and performance features which do determine the price points.

@BockwinkleB 2 ай бұрын

Ive had a Hisense for probably 10 years now, no issues. A Dynex that has been in service over 15 years. Meanwhile the LG had to be fixed after 4 years and broke again 3 years after that. It got replaced with a Hisense.

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

LG is no better. You older Hisense is superior to the latest models. I guarantee that.

@charleypearson2314 Ай бұрын

Just found your channel. This was really interesting! Thank you.

@johncnorris Ай бұрын

The Technician's definition of the word Confidence: The feeling you get just before you know better.

@jacknone1564 Ай бұрын

I have 3 of them of varying size. Zero issues, the oldest is roughly 7 years old. When I only had two, the LEDs in my two year old LG failed in the lower right corner. Warranty was expired. Bought my 3rd Hisense then. Just my experience, I can only speak for myself. My 70” was $899 delivered. If it lasts 8 years, beauty. I’ll buy another one without hesitation.

@andrewmaw3345 Ай бұрын

That 2 way tape BTW was pull tape. If you grab the top and PULL itll pull out the whole strip slowly. This is what they do in a lot of laptop screens now. Ive had to replace hundreds of times. Just for a tip of advice if anyone cares

@annpeerkat2020 Ай бұрын

thanks

@Byron_Blue 2 ай бұрын

Great shot at it Brad!

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Almost got it.

@user-uq4rt5tw9x Ай бұрын

Anything larger than a 42 inch I use 2 suction cups, but still flex the screen a bit while moving it which makes me sweat alot until I get it back together and find its still in one piece. Have a nice flat landing place for it to stay while its off the chassis. I also use blue painters tape on the corners of the diffuser sheet stack to keep them in order and know which side is up while they are off the frame. Flat clean place for those to lay as well because its usually a few days until I get it back together. Lastly my new LEDs are always brighter and a different color than the existing ones, usually the older ones have gone bluish. So I find an old blue marker and color the top of the plastic lens on the new leds so they get a closer match to the old ones. Color of the marker depends on the color difference of the old to new LEDs.

@Kapi.23 Ай бұрын

I've fixed only my own led tv's and it hasn't been that bad. Definitely avoiding hisense from now on. I wasted my LG OLED last year (i slightly bumped into it and the panel broke, worst than glass, it wasn't even a big hit), and i agree 100%. Companies should make things easier to fix. I had to open my other LG in order to isolate the wiring running from the 2 main boards, the heat of the backplate was making them shut off.

@eroticmasterbaker 15 күн бұрын

My tv was barely hit by a low power bb gun ricochet. The screen is F'ed . Not worth it to order new screen. Tvs on marketplace are dirt cheap and they may be better than newer cheap ass tvs