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Old 05-04-2009, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut View Post
A friend of mine who runs a shop claims he fixes a good many LCD's and plasma's by replacing swollen caps and resoldering bad connections. I have not gotten that lucky. Granted, I've only had a few flat panel TV's; but, I had no luck repairing them. Way too many large surface mounted IC's and other SMT parts for my liking.
At work I've repaired more than my fair share of Samsung LCD TVs, and Dell and other off-brand LCD monitors. I'd say about 80% of the time the problem is bloated electrolytic caps on the inverter board. Samsung uses the cheap CapXion brand of capacitors - I've been saving them all in a ziplock bag just to see how many I can collect.
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