Flat screen televisions in hot climates

I've been searching.
Flat panels commonly have an operating range of 0 to 35 deg C with a humidity range of 20 to 90%.

You may simply be running outside what the TV is capable of handling.
However, you said above 30, so the set may be malfunctioning.

The best advice must be to check your instruction manual and speak to your retailer about the problem.

Failing that, air conditioning come to mind.

Hi tiggy,

By 'flat screen' TV I presume you're talking about LCD. The conventional LCD television has a backlight that does get extremely hot and in hotter climates this presents many problems. It is exactly for this reason that the LCD - LED television was invented. The LED backlights run at a much lower temperature and produce inherantly less problems.

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog

Hi Tiggy,

Air conditioning is what i recommend.
this will have two fold advantage, one it will cool your entire room along with your TV.

cheers,

wjwoodward wrote:

Hi tiggy,

By 'flat screen' TV I presume you're talking about LCD. The conventional LCD television has a backlight that does get extremely hot and in hotter climates this presents many problems. It is exactly for this reason that the LCD - LED television was invented. The LED backlights run at a much lower temperature and produce inherantly less problems.

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog

Nailed that one.
LED is a far better choice for exactly that reason but, in this case, you may still have a faulty unit.
30 degrees is too low to be a problem.

LED is a far better choice for exactly that reason but, in this case, you may still have a faulty unit.
30 degrees is too low to be a problem.

I agree - 30 degrees is abit low for a unit to be malfunctioning. Everything has a tolerance but these days with electronics where it is today, components have got better as time has gone along. So units have a higher working temperature than before.

How old is the unit?

I too agree that 30c seems a little low for operating temperature. I have LED and thats ok in high temps and humidity. I find this unusual as good electronics work better when they're running hot.

It gets hot here and it's usually about 100% humidity 100% of the time, but I've never had any TV problems.  Then again, my TV was made in China so it's probably not as good as those European TVs that can't take the heat.

Do they still make TVs that aren't flat screen?

Do they still make TVs that aren't flat screen?

If you're on about the TV's that have a glass tube, I doubt they manufacture these anymore. The new Flat screen and LED TV are much more efficient than the old ones and consume less power.

Yes I do mean an LCD flat screen TV.However it gets very hot here in the summer and the tuning coils etc warp out off alignment so that I cannot receive the local signals.Both the sattelite and DVD systems still work fine. Apparentley I need an LED,LCD set which runs much cooler or a TV with internal cooling fans.

tiggy wrote:

the tuning coils etc warp out off alignment so that I cannot receive the local signals.

You're barking up a tree that was cut down, made into A4 paper, scribbled on, used to make a paper aeroplane, tossed in a dustbin and became landfill 20 or 30 years ago.

No one uses old fashioned tuners of that nature any more.
This is 2003 style, designed for a mobile phone, but it gives you the idea.

Hang on, think simple.
Pop next door and ask them if they're having the same problems.
I suspect you'll have to knock on a lot of doors before you find someone experiencing similar difficulty.

I'm going with faulty unit.

In Laos where it is hot and humid I have a small fan blowing gently onto the flat screen TV from the side which keeps it cool enough.