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Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) has announced free repair and inspection of total 654 units of its "LT-26LC80" 26-inch LCD TV manufactured in November 2006, reporting that some of them might rarely generate abnormal odor and smoke.
The defect is caused by the installation of a coil, which was not the correct one that the company specified, into a lot during the process, where a coil is embedded with a power supply substrate. The company explained this coil generates heat when the LCD TV is switched on and might rarely cause plastic around it to generate strange odor and smoke. A spokesperson from JVC PR insisted, "We have confirmed the heat does not rise so high that a fire starts through our verification experiments." The company contracted out the controversial power supply substrate embedding process to an external company. JVC, however, has not specified why such a mix-up of coils took place.
This malfunction was discovered following an accident, in which the LCD TV generated smoke at a user's home in late January 2007. In the wake of this accident, JVC traced inventory history of the coil that had generated smoke. As a result, 78 units of the LCD TVs in a 654-unit lot manufactured in November 2007 turned out to have used coils, which were not the one JVC had specified.
The defect is caused by the installation of a coil, which was not the correct one that the company specified, into a lot during the process, where a coil is embedded with a power supply substrate. The company explained this coil generates heat when the LCD TV is switched on and might rarely cause plastic around it to generate strange odor and smoke. A spokesperson from JVC PR insisted, "We have confirmed the heat does not rise so high that a fire starts through our verification experiments." The company contracted out the controversial power supply substrate embedding process to an external company. JVC, however, has not specified why such a mix-up of coils took place.
This malfunction was discovered following an accident, in which the LCD TV generated smoke at a user's home in late January 2007. In the wake of this accident, JVC traced inventory history of the coil that had generated smoke. As a result, 78 units of the LCD TVs in a 654-unit lot manufactured in November 2007 turned out to have used coils, which were not the one JVC had specified.
