About Henry A. McKelvey Expertise I have worked in the Electronics field for 25 years, and have been a Telecommunications Expert for 20 years. My Expertise has been in: Video, Audio, RF, Television, and Stereo. I have been in the Television repair business for 25 years and have repaired over 20,000 Televisions in that time. I was a manager of an Information Technology Training Team at The Verizon Advanced Services Group Center, and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Verizon Laboratories. I am now working full time in the TV repair industry until I can find another full time job, I know what your question is: "why don't you just work full time in the TV repair industry permanently?" Well the answer to that is simple, due to the complexity and the DIY craze, TV repair work is at best a good way to make extra money, not to rely on it for your livelihood. A sad truth, but a truth nonetheless.
Experience 25 years as an Electronics Repair Technician, 20 years as a Telecommunications Expert, and I love Electronics.
Organizations The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)
The International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians (ISCET)
Publications On-Line: http://www.fixya.com/users/shuttle83 (solutions to repair issues)
US Patent and Trade Office: (Copy and paste the link below)
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Education/Credentials University of Phoenix (MSCIS working on)
University of Phoenix (BSIT 2006)
World College CIE (BTEE 2006)
Cleveland Institute of Technology (ASEE 2006)
National Education Center (Diploma in Commputer and Network Technology 1989)
TESST Electronics School (Diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology 1985)
AG Bell Vocational High School (Diploma in Electronics Repair (Radio and Television Repair 1983)
Awards and Honors Society of Broadcast Engineers Membership (July 2006)
Special Technology Achievement & Recognition Award (STAR Award) August 2004 (ISO 9000 Certification VTO-SIT)
CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (June 2004)
Special Technology Achievement & Recognition Award (STAR Award) September 2003 (MSN Project)
Special Technology Achievement & Recognition Award (STAR Award) November 2003 (Client CD and Registration Server Issue)
Network Management Certification (ICCP)(2002)
Data Communications Engineer Certification (Global Knowledge)(2002)
TCP/IP Network Analyst Certification (ICCP) (2002)
Winners Circle Award for Development of the DNOC Provisional training Team (2001)
FCC License General Radiotelephone without endorsement (1985)
FCC License General Radiotelephone with shipboard RADAR endorsement (1985)
Certified Electronics Technician Certificate (Electronic Communications)(1989)
Certified Electronics Technician Certificate (Consumer Electronics)(1985)
6 Patent Applications on file (do google search on "Henry A. McKelvey")
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Question i was given an lcd tv/dvd combo and was told that the only problem was the dvd player didnt work. when i plugged it in the tv came on by itself without having to turn the power button on. then after playing around for awhile with it, i found that certain buttons caused it to basically lock up. for example, if i tried the menu button (on remote or tv), every other button would become nonresponsive, even the power button. so i would have to unplug and start over. it seemed that the menu and volume buttons caused this effect. also other buttons such as source and channel buttons had no effect at all and i could at least still turn it off with the power button. one last detail is that it is only like a 17 or 19 inch tv and is advertised to be used as a computer monitor as well. so is this a cheap fix or should it go in the trash? thanks very much in advance.
Answer Hello Derrick,
You have a TV the is having problem with capacitors drying out and the cost of finding and repairing the boards that contain the bad capacitors would be about $100.00 in all. My opinion is this TV is not worth fixing, but that choice remains with you. However if you want to fix it:
1) open up the back of the TV
2) locate the circuit boards and the look at the capacitors on them
3) note all of the bloated capacitors
4) take the boards containing the bad caps out of the TV
5) using desoldering braid and a 40-60 watt soldering iron, follow standard desoldering technique and remove the solder from the capacitor and the circuit pad.
6) remove the capacitor from the desoldered hole, making sure to remove all of the bad capacitors and keeping track of the capacitor number and the value when removing.
