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Repairing a TV with a cool hack (lonelycoder.com)
93 points by Kafka on Feb 17, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Not knowing much about electronics, I was surprised that it is actually possible to write things to the chip without removing it.


That is a nice piece of hacking work. I'd lay 99.9% odds on that write-protect pin being left floating. (Which would mean he'll have to go through the same exercise again. He should have gone ahead and fixed it this time.)

+1 karma to LG for including that schematic. I will remember that little tidbit of information the next time I'm shopping for a TV.


Yeah, that blew me away. How often do you see schematics for ANYTHING anymore, much less a TV?

Most appliances still include a basic wiring diagram (helped me find a corroded connector in my fridge once), but the circuit boards are usually not diagrammed out.




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