Top 20 Polaroid FLM-3201 Television Questions & Answers

I agree with tom you need to replace all the electrolytic capacitors. It is not that difficult if you know what you are doing. If not take it to a tech savvy friend..

The main power supply regulator section circuit fault. Either it will be a separate board, or the part of main board. Check and replace damaged component/s at its main power regulator [SMPS] section circuit. Contact any service technician. If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Pull up older posts. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ It will be best to replace the power supply regulator board as card basis rather than making "Surgery" to it; which usually will make loss for both money and time. Even though you can make it right, it will cost around an amount equal to the cost of a new board; including the cost of (spare parts + service charge) More to say, most of the spare parts to it will be difficult to get from open electronic spare part market. This is true to most of the flat panel TV power supply boards; irrespective of its brand and screen size.

if all the other inputs are working then the trx rcv IC's have gone bad in the module. you can buy a replacement module they are easy to replace contact me and i can get you one.

29V instead of 24V means, the backlight inverter board is not working properly. When it starts work properly, this 29V will drop to 24V. It is the clear evidence for improper funtioning of the back-light inverter. Check and replace damaged component/s at its backlight inverter board, or replace this board as card basis. If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Viewing it in "Mosaic" or "Magazine" will make surf easy. Surf the site with patience. Pull up older posts. Do a search by type in the brand name of your device at its search box. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/

i had similar probs with my lcd... my speakers were too close to my tv !

CAll Me 3525840491 i have several

This is a power supply issue there are some Capacitors that need to be replaced

try replacing the bulb in the tv

Hello,The Polaroid FLM-3201 units have a known issue with the filter capacitors on the power supply board. When the filter capacitors go ou tthe power supply can not start up so you get no power to the TV. New boards are not available any more but you can repair the board in your TV by replacing the filter capacitors. If you can a little soldering then you can do the repair yourself. Here is a picture of the power supply board with the filter capacitors circled in yellow and below the picture is a link to get a kit of the needed capacitors.http://www.ccl-la.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=239I hope this helps,BuddyMc

Check and replace the bad CCFL lamps inside the panel. This is due to backlight problem.

A remote is not needed. You have an issue with your set.

This brand seems to be having a lot of problems, if not the caps on the power board etc you may be done as parts are just a little too hard to find for these sets.

they are not repaired, if the caps are bad they need to be replaced, what would you like to know?

I have seen this before; takes several tries to get it on and gets worse and worse.

All these sets (not just your brand) have a standby power supply that runs 7/24 even if the set is not on; One of the areas these companies cut corners on is filter capacitors in the power supply.

Let us say they hve a unit with a 9 volt standby voltage (it is on all the time) and to save money they put capacitors rated at 10 volts= a tidy savings if you produce 10,000 units and the difference between 10 volt rated caps and 16 or 24 volt rated caps is a nice piece of money.

They do not care as the unit will usually last a year or two and then fail.

The good news is if someone opens the unit (UNPLUGGED FIRST) AND does a visual inspection they will be able to SEE the bad caps.

The caps are perfectly flat on top and the silver material has creases in it: a bad cap can instantly be seen and this is the first thing to look at: see attached photo of the typical type of cap.

I have seen units where anywhere from five to ten caps were bad; same kind of problem occurs in tower type computers; If you shop around the caps are pretty cheap and marked with value and voltage rating along with a minus and plus for positive and negative----each cap only has two leads and are fairly easy to replace.

There is no magic bullet for this: someone has to open the unit and look at the caps.


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Simple test: get a powerful flashlight and point it at the screen from up-close - if you can see the image the ballast board (the one that powers the tubes that generate the back lighting) has failed, if you don't see an image it's the CPU board.
Here you can find the service manual
http://www.polaroidsupport.com/polaroid/docs/FLM-3201_ServiceManual_20051205.pdf

Hello; Most newer TV's will let you choose the language shown on the screen. This is a menu item that is controlled by your remote. You many need to read / download to find how to change to English. John

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The screen is only black and white; means the picture displays is B/W?, or there is a screen with B/W snow? Please specify these. Is there sound OK, if when the picture is displayed?. Or the there is no light and picture on the screen, with perfect sound? Clarify these by Fixya please.

Replace power supply

You have bad capacitors on the power supply board, they should be easy too see.