Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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- Preamp, Processor or Receiver
- Yamaha CX-A5000 A/V Preamp / Processor
- Main Amp
- Yamaha RX-Z9 AV Receiver (as multichannel amp)
- Universal / Blu-ray / CD Player
- Denon DCT-3313 UDCI Universal Disc Player
- Streaming Equipment
- Roku Express
- Front Speakers
- Canton Karat 920
- Front Wide Speakers
- Realistic Minimus 7 (front EFX speakers)
- Center Channel Speaker
- Canton Karat 920
- Surround Speakers
- Canton Plus D
- Surround Back Speakers
- Yamaha YDP2006 Digital Parametric EQ (front mains)
- Front Height Speakers
- Yamaha YDP2006 Digital Parametric EQ (surrounds)
- Rear Height Speakers
- Yamaha YDP2006 Digital Parametric EQ (sub)
- Subwoofers
- Hsu ULS-15 MKII
- Other Speakers
- Adcom ACE-515 (for power management)
- Screen
- Pioneer PDP-6010FD 60" Plasma TV
- Video Display Device
- Yamaha DT-2 (digital clock display)
- Remote Control
- Stock Yamaha Remote
- Other Equipment
- Audio Control R130 Real Time Analyzer
Well, I lost two of my beloved Pioneers plasmas in a matter of a few days.
We moved our 43-incher and the old 780p 50-incher to Corpus Christi from our house in Houston a month ago. All our stuff was moved in a U-Haul moving truck, but our two Pioneer plasmas were transported in our minivan.
We just moved from our little apartment here in Corpus to a 1930s-vintage rent house last week. When I put the 43” on our master bedroom dresser and plugged it in, there the usual internal “click,” but it wouldn’t turn on. Certainly not happy about that, but it’s not a big loss since there’s still the other 50-incher from our apartment.
A few days later I put the 50-incher from the apartment up on the dresser and plugged it into the same outlet, and – nothing. It won’t turn on either! Not even the internal “click.” Now I’m really not believing this! We’d been using that TV in our apartment for the past year, and a few years before that back in Houston with no problems. Did it really die on the half-mile trip from the apartment to the rent house??
I checked the outlet with a VOM meter and found nothing out of the ordinary, except that there is no functioning ground (it’s an old house). On a hunch I checked to make sure was no “rogue” voltage present on the ground connection, but the meter registered none. Do these TVs live or die based on a grounded outlet? The old 720p 50-incher is working fine in the living room on an ungrounded plug.
I guess our dilemma now is what to do. I’m not averse to buying used – in fact I got all three of them used. But these TVs are getting hard to find. So I guess I’m willing to spend as much for the repair as it would cost to replace it with another used one, which is probably $3-500. (I paid $1100 for the 50” back in 2012).
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
We moved our 43-incher and the old 780p 50-incher to Corpus Christi from our house in Houston a month ago. All our stuff was moved in a U-Haul moving truck, but our two Pioneer plasmas were transported in our minivan.
We just moved from our little apartment here in Corpus to a 1930s-vintage rent house last week. When I put the 43” on our master bedroom dresser and plugged it in, there the usual internal “click,” but it wouldn’t turn on. Certainly not happy about that, but it’s not a big loss since there’s still the other 50-incher from our apartment.
A few days later I put the 50-incher from the apartment up on the dresser and plugged it into the same outlet, and – nothing. It won’t turn on either! Not even the internal “click.” Now I’m really not believing this! We’d been using that TV in our apartment for the past year, and a few years before that back in Houston with no problems. Did it really die on the half-mile trip from the apartment to the rent house??
I checked the outlet with a VOM meter and found nothing out of the ordinary, except that there is no functioning ground (it’s an old house). On a hunch I checked to make sure was no “rogue” voltage present on the ground connection, but the meter registered none. Do these TVs live or die based on a grounded outlet? The old 720p 50-incher is working fine in the living room on an ungrounded plug.
I guess our dilemma now is what to do. I’m not averse to buying used – in fact I got all three of them used. But these TVs are getting hard to find. So I guess I’m willing to spend as much for the repair as it would cost to replace it with another used one, which is probably $3-500. (I paid $1100 for the 50” back in 2012).
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
