I got water in the back of my TV. ( I know, STUPID)
It doesn’t work at all. NOTHING.
The set is 10 years old, if that matters.
Is there any hope of it working when it dries out? Is it worth repairing?
And kids, do not try this at home…
Leave it unplugged until it dries out and yes it will work again. Trying to turn it on while it is still wet will run you the risk of shorting out something and actually breaking it.
I’m still using a TV that survived the same thing. Water dripped from the ceiling onto the back of the TV. It didn’t work for a day, but it works now. The only problem is that I can no longer get any display on the TV (no channel number, volume, menu, anything) but the picture displays fine, and the sound is good. It’s a pain cause I have to manually punch in the channel I want since I can’t program the channels and just use the up/down key.
How big a TV is it, and how much did you pay for it? I have been given to understand, for a long time now, that it no longer is the “done thing” to have medium-size appliances like microwaves, VCRs, and 19" color TVs repaired. Apparently what one does is simply throw it away and buy a new one. I do not agree with this, but I am outvoted by the mass of American consumers.
Just try and find a TV repair shop that will fix a TV for less than $50. I challenge you.
Shoot. For fifty bucks I can buy a new TV–granted, a fairly small one, but a TV nevertheless.
My oldest son peed in the back of a TV once.
The repairman said it was a good thing that he peed in dribs and drabs – a steady stream would have shocked him good.
He was two at the time. (It’s a long story.)
It is a 19inch, and 10 years old.
I figure I can get a new one for about $200.
I figure I’ll have a hell of a time getting it fixed for that.
Still, I’ll give it a few days and try it.
Oh, GOD, I got a great laugh out of this. Only because he was uninjured. I have been shocked by the High-Voltage Tripler circuit in my Steadicam Monitor. It runs 12vdc up to 18,000 vdc. Very scary stuff. AC powered monitors used to have triplers too. Now, I hear they’ve moved past them.
Perhaps he’d been expressing his distain for the image on the front by urinating on the back? He could succeed Siskel and Ebert ( NO Offense to the advertiser prominently shown on the banner above the Threads). He could utilize a series of kidney-shaped icons to show how well a film did. Just a thought…
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We got a chuckle out of it too.
This happened about 35 years ago. An afternoon game show was on. I think it was “The Price Is Right”. He never liked it when the final bidder would raise the highest bid by a dollar.
That still pisses him off. 
Hijacking my own thread…
I knew a 5 YO who was REALLY sorry he peed on the hot wire of the electric fence.
Take the back off the set and turn on a fan to dry it out. I’d give it a couple of days.
Heck you might have just invented the humidifier.
I started sophmore year of college with the purchase of a beautiful new 19" Sony Trinitron. That evening, keger in my room, 16oz cup of beer right into the back of the TV. The picture went out, we cut the power. The next day, I flipped it on, beautiful picture. Still works to this day (12 years later-Oh the burden of my advanced age).
Sambuca and computer keyboards are a totally different story, though.
I had a TV get wet once and just let it dry out for several days, then flipped it on and it worked. I also had one get wet when on, a really nifty itty bitty portable, and it sort of went ‘fiizzzlll! Pop!’ and died. It stayed dead.
I bought a cheap little B&W for $50, new and had it for a couple of years when it started to go wonkers, so I asked a TV repair guy if he could fix it and he told me to throw it out. He said the new ones are all printed circuits and he would have to charge me more in labor and parts than the set cost! I opened the set up when I got home and he was right. Most of the covering was hollow plastic, with the picture tube the biggest item and a handful of circuit boards behind it!
I recalled when I used to open up old TV’s, pull suspected tubes that looked bad from the crowd in the back, avoiding that evil little black box that smelled of ozone and could hold a great charge of power even when unplugged, and go to the nearest 7-11 to use their tube tester. If I found a bad one, I bought a new one from the racked tubes in the tester base.
Not anymore! Actually, the picture tube is the only thing holding TV’s back in size and the LCD is still expensive to use for one. I’m waiting to see how long the LCD, full size screens will last because tubes seem to last almost forever whereas LCD computer screens only run for a few years.