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About Rick Montgomery
Expertise
Most questions about 1970's-1980's audio equipment. Most 1980's -1990's VCR's and VCR combo's. Most 1980's-1990's car audio, except original equipment. I know name brand after-market such as Kenwood, Pioneer, JVC, and some Sony. I am not so good with TV's, DVD's or camcorders. I do not work on Projection TV sets at all. I also have no access to documebntation for sets outside of the United States.

Experience
Professional Electronics Technician since 1975, specializing in most audio, home, portable and car. Also all VCR's. Limited TV knowledge. No projection TV experience

Organizations
Through work, NESDA.

Publications
n/a

Education/Credentials
High School. Graduated with 2 yrs Vocational Electronics in High School.

Awards and Honors
Certificates of completion of factory training seminars for various brands

Past/Present Clients
Thousands of customers to the Service Centers I have worked for.

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TV/VCR/Stereo Troubleshooting - wrong fuse in a TV

Expert: Rick Montgomery - 11/6/2009

Question
Hi

I have a 40 inch lcd Sanyo tv.

The tv had a faultly power circit when it was returned from the company who where fixinging the fuse had blown in the plug (5 amp fuse), the repair man then took the fuse from my ps3 (10 amp) and put in in the TV and left.

I switched tv on several hours later when I returned from work and aster about 5 mins the TV went completly dead.

When i realised the problem, I tried a 5 amp fuse in the TV and still nothing.

The repair company are not admiting any fault, are they correct?

thanks

Liam

Answer
Liam,
  I would like to help you, but as my profile reflects, I only have access to models sold here in the United States, and although Sanyo is an international company, they sell different models in different parts of the world. I would have to begin by looking in the service manual for your model and see what size fuse is called for. But as I said, even without you having supplied the model number, I am sure it is not supported by Sanyo-USA.
  Having said that, I feel it is highly unlikely that a low power device such as your PS-3 would have anything even close to a 10 amp fuse in it. At the most, I would think 1 amp. If your TV blew a 5 amp fuse (which sounds like a normal size), you would definitely smell something burned before a 10 amp fuse would blow.
  If the Service Center installed a wrong value of fuse, there is no doubt that they were negligent. Unless they offered no warranty at all on their work, I would call them back immediately and make them act responsible for what they charged you for.
regards,
Rick

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