General electric question about my tv fuse

[camaro]

Recently lightning fried my tv. I opened it up and the power cable fuse was fried. It was 125V 4A. I got a 250V 4A and soldered it in place of the fried one. It showed power, but when I turned it on, it also fried. I tried a 250V 5A one and same thing. Any ideas? The 125V fuses are much smaller and it would be very difficult to get one in there, but 250V means upto 250V right? So what can I try?

[awwall]

Sounds like you have more wrong than a blown fuse. The one you put in first, should have worked fine.

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[BBA]

Generally speaking, when lightning strikes TV's, your lucky if replacing every card inside makes it live again...in otherwords, it usually ends up being more to repair it than the cost of a new TV.

Sorry.

[shadow]

Dont use amperage ratings over what is recommended, it can be a fire hazard. There is a short somewhere else in the tv, most likely the power supply, a rectifier, etc. If it was a close strike there could be blown components all over, I'd call it a loss and replace the thing...try your insurance company.

[Cadfael]

Yout Television is toast http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif, throw it in the bin and buy a new one.

The fuse is there to handle a power surge from the national grid... however, with a lighting strike, even when the fused had blow the extreamly high voltage would have arced across the connection, and to other conductive material in your TV... and this is not taking into account the heat that would have fused practically every circuit in there.