When I turn my TV on there is sound, but, the picture vanishes after a couple of seconds. Why?

Hi Ken,
Power on the unit in the dark room then shine with the flashlight directly in the screen, you will barely see the images. This is because your backlight is not functioning. The following reason is the caused.
1. Power supply - missing B+(supply voltage) coming from this board feeding the inverter board. This was caused by faulty transistor, dried/leaky electrolytic capacitor, open fusible resistor.
2. Inverter board - even the B+ is good from the power supply, if the fuse, driver transistor, driver transformer was faulty no output to the backlight resulting to black picture.
3. Busted backlight - even inverter board is good but if this was busted resulting to black picture also.
Diagnosing the fault is technical and if you don't have necessary tools and test instrument and can't fix it yourself, I would advice you to look for an experienced technician to isolate the problem.
Hope I helped you.
Have a nice day!
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The backlight inverter is what powers the screen to "light up." You will need to check your power supply for the proper voltages going to the backlight inverter. If those all check out ok, then you need to replace your inverter to get your image back. You can find a new inverter by searching "inverter + model number of your tv.



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