-=> Nightfox wrote to Moondog <=-
Mo> I also have a Tv that's pushing 10 years old, a plaine no frills Samsung.
Mo> The caps on the power board went bad on it already, so I purchased a recap
Mo> kit on Amazon and fixed it. Right now money is tight, so the closest thing
Ni> How did you determine it was the caps on the power board that
Ni> went bad?
Generally, you can identify bad capacitors (at least the "barrel"
kind) by them being swollen up (especially on the top surface)
and/or leaking brown gooey stuff.
Quite common on power supplies and motherboards.
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