I bought my diode from Sony. It's $3 so I ordered a few of them and will keep them in stock for the next time... I only replaced D6114. I replaced my diode this weekend and everything went fine. It took about 3 hours start to finish. The key to the job is labeling!!! You have to completely dissamble most of the lower portion of your tv. If you don't label each side of the wire you removed you will have trouble putting it back together. I started with the first wire I removed and labled that "1" on both sides. Then moved to the next wire, removed it and labeled it "2" on both sides, etc... I kept my numbers together so that 1 through 7 were on the first board removed. Then 7 through whatever were on the next board, etc. This makes things organized when you need to put everything back together. Once the A board is removed, I used a cutter to snip one side of the diode. This way I could heat up one side of the solder pad and use a needle nose plier to pull it out of the board from underneath. Then do the other side. Without cutting the diode, removal is harder. Make sure you notice the "black side" of the diode. You need to install the new diode the same way it came out. Also when soldering use a heat sink to absorb some of the heat from the soldering iron. I put mine on the underside of the solder pad. In total there were 5 boards that sit on top of the A board along with all the cabling. On a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being the hardest, I give this job an 7. At first glance, this jobs looks impossible but if you take your time and label everything you should be sucessful. The tools needed for this job are philips and flat screw driver. Flashlight. 15W soldering iron (don't use a soldering gun as it is to powerfull). solder. heat sink. cutters. Needle nose pliers. White tape and extra fine sharpie marker.

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