Anyone have experience with Element Electronics? 40 inch Mon

[Robert Macy]

Anyone have experience with the 40 inch screen from Element
Electronics?

ELGFT401, or such

I can't seem to find much about this company. Where made?
Reliability?

Regards,
Robert

 

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:27:33 -0700 (PDT), Robert Macy
<robert.a.macy@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone have experience with the 40 inch screen from Element
Electronics?

ELGFT401, or such

I can't seem to find much about this company. Where made?
Reliability?

Regards,
Robert
OK, it took Google .13 seconds to spit out the important information.

Made in China, sold by Walmart. IOW, garbage. No schematics or
service manual available. Likely causes of failures include cheap
caps in the power supply, bad solder job on the circuit boards, and
failing LDO regulators.

PlainBill

 

[Robert Macy]

On Sep 13, 1:50 pm, PlainB...@yawhoo.com wrote:

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:27:33 -0700 (PDT), Robert Macy

robert.a.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone have experience with the 40 inch screen from Element
Electronics?

ELGFT401, or such

I can't seem to find much about this company.  Where made?
Reliability?

Regards,
Robert

OK, it took Google .13 seconds to spit out the important information.
Made in China, sold by Walmart.  IOW, garbage.  No schematics or
service manual available.  Likely causes of failures include cheap
caps in the power supply, bad solder job on the circuit boards, and
failing LDO regulators.  

PlainBill

Thank you for your reply. Given made in China, your assertions
regarding reliability are probably correct.

I did the 'google' search. all I got was the company is in
Minneapolis, MN; names of officers;the company salutes "made in
america" products; sells through Walmart; had 32 BBB complaints
against it; and probably went bankrupt July, 2011.

but couldn't find out a single insight into 'reliability'

Regards,
Robert