Flickering 13.3 inch RCA flat screen 12 volt tv

tvman44 wrote:
RCA is now nothing but chinese junk with a old USA name. Personally I would not own one. Buy a Japanese manufactured brand, far better.

I bought mine in a grocery store for $75. Doesn't matter where it was built, it's a throw away.
You get what you payed for.

tvman44 wrote:
RCA is now nothing but chinese junk with a old USA name. Personally I would not own one. Buy a Japanese manufactured brand, far better.

I don't care who you are but that one is funny for sure..

Even SONY does not make TVs in Japan..

Heck Sony USED to make CRTs and even some flat screens in the US but no longer..

Nope, theirs comes from China and a few other countries now days..

Good luck finding anything that isn't made in China now days.

Just be happy you get 3-5 yrs out of one...

RCA is now nothing but chinese junk with a old USA name. Personally I would not own one. Buy a Japanese manufactured brand, far better.

OK, thanks. Will start shopping and alloting $$ for replacement.

I saw the same TV advertised under a different brand name, for ~80$ cheaper than I paid ~3 years ago.

I'd buy it again. It would simplify mounting and wiring, and perhaps I'd have two functional remotes.

Kind of amazing how well the remote can get up and hide.

landyacht318 wrote:
Just recently my TV began flickering.

In the center of the bottom of the screen, there is a "V" of darkness that spreads upwards to the upper corners, darkest at the bottom, lessening as it rises.

In the beginning of this occurrence, when cold, it was most prevalent, and stopped when warmed up. A week later it was on and off as to whether it occurred or not.

Today is is constant no matter the temperature. Last night it was not flickering, but just a dark spot in the same pattern, which I do not mind all that much

My thinking is one of the LED backlighting bulbs is on the fritz, but this is a mere guess and I really don't have a clue.

But I can solder, and i can take things apart, and more importantly get them back together, but have no idea what is wrong or if it is within my skills to determine what is at issue, or if it is solvable with my limited skills and knowledge.

I bought RCA as it was one of the few recognizable brand names of TV's sold in this size which is ideal for my situation. I've gotten at least 3 years of use from it. It really does not own me anything. but it would be nice to not have to replace it.

But this flickering is not tolerable.

Any Ideas?

Most likely a "set" of LEDs has died although it could be a "driver" for that set of LEDs..

I would highly doubt that they are in any way shape or form in a place that you will be able to get to without destroying the LCD its' self..

Think of the screen you view as a sandwich.. There are layers from the front of the screen to the very back.. The back layer typically has a matte glass (some may be plastic) to which the light source is on the very edges (IE edge lit)..

If you are lucky the LED circuit board may be out in the open, but I doubt it..

If it the "driver" you are out of luck.. That would be buried deep within a IC chip which most likely will never find for sale..

You got three years out of a TV with an expected life of 3-4 yrs.. Consider yourself lucky and go buy a new TV..

As far as "RCA brand", it is nothing more than a branding name sold to the highest bidder.. Zenith was the very last holdout of the American TV/electronics manufacturers and they too quite a few years ago succumbed to the brand name sell off and quit manufacturing their own products..

Even Sony no longer manufacturers their own TVs, yep they used to make them, no longer now..

Brand names in TVs means nothing now days, every brand name is now simply stuck on the products that are made by third parties in Korea, Taiwan, China and so on.