Subj : World Series
To   : Moondog
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Oct 28 2019 05:12 pm

 Re: World Series
 By: Moondog to Nightfox on Mon Oct 28 2019 06:41 pm

>> How did you determine it was the caps on the power board that went
>> bad?

Mo> I googled the model and symptoms, and I wasn't the only person having the
Mo> same issue. Also due to the age of the TV, it was made in a period when a
Mo> bunch of bad capacitors were being made. One article explained the voltage
Mo> rat ings were barely sufficient and would cause caps to fail. Some looked

Ah, I did that one time..  I had a DVD player that stopped working and Googled it, and someone said there was a capacitor in that model of player that was known for going bad.  I replaced it, and sure enough, it worked again.

I was curious how they determined it was the capacitor.  I don't remember if it looked particularly bloated or anything..

Nightfox

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