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Woke this morning to TV going on/off. Figured it's a few years old so went bought new tv. Everything was good. A few hours later the tv now is going on/off. Nothing else is doing anything. All lights, fan, xbox, etc work.
Woke this morning to TV going on/off. Figured it's a few years old so went bought new tv. Everything was good. A few hours later the tv now is going on/off. Nothing else is doing anything. All lights, fan, xbox, etc work.
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1 year ago
Stupid question: You did not connect any new device recently to the TV using a HDMI cable?
Most TV's offer CEC and other functions that allow a connected device to turn the TV on and off for example.
If in doubt disconnect all but the earial from the TV and then add one device at a time to observe what the TV does.
I'm quite confident your culprit is not the TV but something plugged into it.
External HDD maybey for recording your TV shows?...
1 year ago
It would be funny if someone were pranking you with the old TV-B-Gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone
but I think that possibility is remote, if you will forgive the pun.
Also you did not mention the amount of time, between these turn on, and turn off, events.
I think the TV-B-Gone has a period lasting a few minutes, corresponding to the amount of time it takes to cycle through all of its codes.
AussieAlf's hypothesis, regarding power quality, seems more likely to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_quali...
Although I am not quite sure how to reconcile this power quality hypothesis with your statement, "Nothing else is doing anything. All lights, fan, xbox, etc work."
I mean, I am guessing that a light plugged into the same circuit, and turned on, would flicker when the power to that circuit was flickering.
1 year ago
If you disconnect all devices from the TV, including aerial and just leave it powered, does it still power off? Did you have a storm or other turbulence since the TV last worked OK? Has it being giving problems recently or just suddenly startd powering on/off after being fine before?
1 year ago
Hey 19carebear81,
I had a similar experience just a few weeks ago, where my coffee machine was doing the same. I plugged in a light and it worked fine for a while then it started flickering on and off. Turned out to be a fault with the switch which was arcing internally.