Look on the power supply for a plug that has an id of voltages, you'll see one that says PO, that means power on, to kick the power supply up. Put you DVM on that pin and press the power button and watch the meter, you should have high activity, if it comes up to lets say 3.4 volts and falls off then the main board needs replaced. Let me know how you do!
You must have a digital volt meter. You should see a plug with red leads on the power supply going to a long board, that is the dc inverter.
There should be another set (not red)going to the main board. That's the plug that will have 5 volts for standby and the po will be on there also. Check for 5volts on one of those leads. The only way you can check for the high on the po line is to leave the meter on each lead (seperately) and press the power button and see if that lead developes a voltage(.6-1.5 dc). If it does then the power supply is bad, if not then the main board is defective. If you haven't worked on a television like this, I would rather see you take it in to a repair center. If your trying to save money, your going to spend about $150.00 for the main board anyway.
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I could not find any PO..not quite sure what i'm looking for. Sorry, I'll need some hand holding on anything very technical
I was afraid you were going to say that... I'm planning to fight Polaroid to get them to honor my warrantee, so I guess I'll just spend the $250 and have them do the "out of warrantee" service (repair center quoted me $600 for repair).
thanks
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