Scrapping a Plasma TV - Samsung PS-50C91HD

[WEEE Ben]

Here's a very large Plasma TV, be good to get this one scrapped as it's been sitting around for a while.
Samsung PS-50C91HD..



This back is just steel so no aluminium yet..



Under the base there a decent chunk of cast alloy..



I've had a few like this, that centre plug is steel and stuck in very hard, i've tried to knock these out before and for what it's worth I don't bother trying now, I send this off as irony aluminium..

[WEEE Ben]

The boards are a good size, it's just the size of the tv is so big it makes everything look small..

[WEEE Ben]

Power board with everything chunky..



Main board mounted in the usual box..



Removing those two heat sinks will reveal the quality of the board..



Two nice gold cornered chips but the board is a half and half board, the top part is low grade, the bottom part from the white line is high grade.
Complete this board is technically a low grade so breaking it into two from the white line will give you two boards, a low and a high..

[WEEE Ben]

Under the main board plate is the logic board and the two long strip boards..



The two strip boards are like LCD finger strips except no fingers, they have these ribbon fingers instead..



Which connect to these plugs, these strip boards don't have anything on 'em and are definitely low grade..



But still, 16 finger strips come from it so it ain't too bad..

[WEEE Ben]

Left side of the tv is this set up, the plugs have gold pins so worth pulling..

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Right side is my favorite..



Solid gold fingers..

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Logic board is a high grade..

[WEEE Ben]

Steel back and weighs quite a bit this one..



Finally found some sheet Aluminium, the frames on the front panel..



The graded boards from it..



Price check..

$3.46 - Steel 26.5 kg
$1.34 - Power Boards 3.8 kg
$1.42 - Low Grade Boards 0.95 kg
$0.47 - High Grade Boards 0.11 kg
$0.46 - Irony Alloy 1.3 kg
$1.40 - Alloy 1.4 kg
$0.50 - Insulated Wire 0.22 kg

Scrap value: $9.05