Holiday season before last, I bought a 55" Sharp flat screen TV from Best Buy. Nice TV, basically a Hisense with Roku, branded as a Sharp, exclusive to Best Buy.
It died a premature death at the hands of a lightning strike. Figured it would just be part of the insurance claim. Did some searching on the model number, and came upon a site called shopjimmy.com, who sell flat screen tv repair components. They had a complete circuit board kit for the Sharp. Came with mainboard, power supply board, wireless network board, and video driver board. $57 for the kit. Ordered it. Inside the TV was pretty simple. Just the four boards neatly mounted and cabled together with a few simple/can't-make-a-mistake connectors. Took me less than 30 minutes to replace the two bad components (mainboard and wireless). TV up and running again; had to go through the software update and Roku setup, but that was only a few more minutes.
Just wanted to give a heads up that these TVs are very repairable for little money, and don't require significant mechanical or electronics skills.
It died a premature death at the hands of a lightning strike. Figured it would just be part of the insurance claim. Did some searching on the model number, and came upon a site called shopjimmy.com, who sell flat screen tv repair components. They had a complete circuit board kit for the Sharp. Came with mainboard, power supply board, wireless network board, and video driver board. $57 for the kit. Ordered it. Inside the TV was pretty simple. Just the four boards neatly mounted and cabled together with a few simple/can't-make-a-mistake connectors. Took me less than 30 minutes to replace the two bad components (mainboard and wireless). TV up and running again; had to go through the software update and Roku setup, but that was only a few more minutes.
Just wanted to give a heads up that these TVs are very repairable for little money, and don't require significant mechanical or electronics skills.
