 |
 |
Overheating HDTV??
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Southern New Jersey
Status:
Offline
|
|
Should an HDTV be warm to the touch? My gf's HDTV is hot to the touch and has a weird smell which we think is from the tv or the Fios box. If it's the tv can it be fixed or is it not worth it?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yes. If it's fairly new it may emit a smell as well, although my Sony Bravia still emits a bit of a new electronics smell after 2 years.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Southern New Jersey
Status:
Offline
|
|
It's a few years old... We noticed an electrical smell in the room and the LCD panel was very warm to the touch....
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
LCDs can be quite warm. Unless the smell includes "smoke" as one of its components, it's more likely that you're smelling dust and hair that have collected inside the display's case. A good vacuuming, with the unit turned off, should clear that up.
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Our LCD does get quite warm (between that and the G5 in the room, we don't have to really run heat during the winter  ) and you can notice a slight 'electronics' smell if you're looking for it. As ghporter said it's probably dust getting into the unit.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
My plasma has fans to keep it cool. I remember an early plasma I saw back in 1996 or something, it was so hot you could feel the heat from the top edge of it from a foot away, easily.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
I remember when those came out. They were $15,000.
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
The one I saw was a lot more than that, actually, IIRC, because it was a data display, not a TV.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top