Sony WEGA television - I want to see it's innards.

[xboxist]

Hi. I have an odd request:

I want to know what the hell is inside of these tv's. I searched for schematics, but I didn't find anything. If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated.

I bought a 36" flatscreen Trinitron (all Wega's might be that - I don't know), and damn near threw out my back out hauling it into the house and getting it up onto my stand. The thing weighs 240 lbs., which surprises me because when we lifted it, it seemed like the whole back half of the tv frame was empty and weightless. So unless the front glass is about about 12" thick, I can't imagine what would be inside of this to make it weigh so much.

 

[isekii]

Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

 

[Viper GTS]

It looks something like this up front:

|(

And yes, Wegas are VERY front heavy. I dropped mine once when moving it, scared the living hell out of me but it survived without so much as a crack.

Viper GTS

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
It looks something like this up front:

|(

And yes, Wegas are VERY front heavy. I dropped mine once when moving it, scared the living hell out of me but it survived without so much as a crack.

Viper GTS

ROFL that would have been a shi tty day if you broke teH WEGA

 

[BigJ]

Sony TVs are some of the heaviest on the market. Me and my father had to take my 27" Wega in for service. We pull up to the station, guy sees its a Wega, and says "We're not gonna carry this in, wait for them to get the cart. In the 20 odd years I've been working here, Sony's are the heaviest sons of b!tches i've ever worked on"

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Sony TVs are some of the heaviest on the market. Me and my father had to take my 27" Wega in for service. We pull up to the station, guy sees its a Wega, and says "We're not gonna carry this in, wait for them to get the cart. In the 20 odd years I've been working here, Sony's are the heaviest sons of b!tches i've ever worked on"

Thickening the glass is the easiest way to achieve flat screens.

That's why Plasma's/LCDs/DLP's are so much lighter. There isn't a vacum sucking on the front screen so the screen doesn't need to be as capable.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
It looks something like this up front:

|(

And yes, Wegas are VERY front heavy. I dropped mine once when moving it, scared the living hell out of me but it survived without so much as a crack.

Viper GTS

damn that would have sucked if you had broke it i am glad your wega is ok

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: xboxist

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

ROFL

how big was the WEGA ?

If it's something like a 27" me and my friend had no prob moving that.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: xboxist
But there's something more to these tv's.

Lead.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: xboxist

I bought a 36" flatscreen Trinitron (all Wega's might be that - I don't know), and damn near threw out my back out hauling it into the house and getting it up onto my stand. The thing weighs 240 lbs., which surprises me because when we lifted it, it seemed like the whole back half of the tv frame was empty and weightless. So unless the front glass is about about 12" thick, I can't imagine what would be inside of this to make it weigh so much.

It's the glass. Particularly the ridiculous amount of glass required to flatten out the image at the edges. A curved-screen TV would be lighter.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: xboxist

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

As has been repeated several times, it's all the glass necessary to make that purdy flat tube.

Viper GTS

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: xboxist

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

As has been repeated several times, it's all the glass necessary to make that purdy flat tube.

Viper GTS

Not only that, but lead is added to the glass for better optical quality and radiation shielding. It probably adds a good 5-10lbs compared to a similar mass of pure glass.

 

[J0hnny]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: xboxist

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

As has been repeated several times, it's all the glass necessary to make that purdy flat tube.

Viper GTS

Not only that, but lead is added to the glass for better optical quality and radiation shielding. It probably adds a good 5-10lbs compared to a similar mass of pure glass.

Are you for real?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: J0hnny

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: xboxist

Originally posted by: isekii
Glass weighs a ton.

Try lifting a fishtank. or a glass table top.

Good point, but I do appreciate the general weight of glass. But there's something more to these tv's. Let's put it this way, a friend of mine hired movers to move his new WEGA up 3 flights of stairs, and when they got there to do the job they failed miserably. heh... had to hire specialty movers for "extreme weights".

As has been repeated several times, it's all the glass necessary to make that purdy flat tube.

Viper GTS

Not only that, but lead is added to the glass for better optical quality and radiation shielding. It probably adds a good 5-10lbs compared to a similar mass of pure glass.

Are you for real?

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question678.htm

 

[Gunbuster]

Sony also likes to encase its TV's in an impregnable fortress of metal shielding

 

[Blieb]

hehe ... I thoguht the exact same thing when lifting my wega up on my armoire ... it SUCKED.

 

[Bryophyte]

I would like to add that I really hope you don't open up your TV and look. It could kill you. Even unplugged for awhile, it holds a deadly charge. Someone around here (was it Roger?) could tell you what happens if you get shocked by it. He died and had to be brought back to life by EMTs, I seem to remember.

 

[EngenZerO]

imaging hefting a 32inch wega up three flight of stairs to replace a sold 32 curved screen trinitron which had to go down three flight of stairs. ugh it sucked...

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
I would like to add that I really hope you don't open up your TV and look. It could kill you. Even unplugged for awhile, it holds a deadly charge. Someone around here (was it Roger?) could tell you what happens if you get shocked by it. He died and had to be brought back to life by EMTs, I seem to remember.

Oh no, no intentions of doing that. It's too gorgeous to even consider. Oh, and the whole not wanting to die thing.

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
I would like to add that I really hope you don't open up your TV and look. It could kill you. Even unplugged for awhile, it holds a deadly charge. Someone around here (was it Roger?) could tell you what happens if you get shocked by it. He died and had to be brought back to life by EMTs, I seem to remember.

Lol tell that to the guys that repaired my TV. They were idiots. When they opened up the TV, there is very little there other than the tube. There is a circuit board underneath it that is about the size of a large motherboard and a riser for the input/output connections on the back. There are a few wires (maybe 10?) going to the tube and the cicuit board has some large heat sinks that looked like they were aluminium.

 

[AMCRambler]

A friend of mine who worked stock at Best Buy was telling me about one time when one fell off a rack there and just smashed all over the place when it landed. He said it was like a bomb went off lol. I'll give you his number and you can ask him what the insides looked like, hahaha.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
A friend of mine who worked stock at Best Buy was telling me about one time when one fell off a rack there and just smashed all over the place when it landed. He said it was like a bomb went off lol. I'll give you his number and you can ask him what the insides looked like, hahaha.

lol ... another loss of wegas for bestbuy they should have just gave that wega to me if they wanted to get rid of it

 

[Daishiki]

yea, 27in. wega was pretty front heavy... needed help moving it up the narrow stairway. but well worth it =)