One of our TVs is a 32 inch Samsung, which has an excellent picture.
2 years ago the power board blew so i replaced it with a secondhand board, which was an easy job.
Now it's powering up but then powering off after about 5 minutes and not even going into standby. Unplugging the power lead and waiting a bit and then restarting brings it back to life but then it powers off again.
Before I buy another board is it:
- likely to be the power board
- are there suspect components on the board (I'm guessing capacitors) that are worth replacing (I know how to solder them in).
hard to know, but certainly failing caps are a common cause. One of those cheap chinese component testers is good for testing caps - the caps need removing to check them though.
Yes when you say the original blew, exactly how did it blow? The reason I ask is that the behaviour you describe could just be a protection circuit doing tis job if something has caused a short somewhere. As has been said, you can try the capacitors. Samsung went through a phase a few years back when this seemingly was an issue. Brian
Yes switch mode psus can actually damage the semiconductors in the bit which is live to mains due to a mains spike, in which case it just is dead, but the one he has sounds more hopeful. Its probably quite old now though so he may or may not be lucky. Somebody in the old days would have been knowledgeable on such things, but these days particularly with the smaller sizes people tend to just dump them and buy a new one, sadly. Brian
I had to replace two obviously blown capacitors in my Samsung TV purchased in 2009, however they did last around 8 years.
The outward symptom was that the TV would not switch on reliably. I have a remote controlled mains plug and remove the mains from the TV and other under TV equipment each night after watching. On my TV a LED flashes during the power on sequence. This failed to flash occasionally when mains was re-applied. Cycling the mains on/off would allow a subsequent TV power on sequence to be successfully completed. Over a period of a month or so the times when the TV would not switch on became more frequent and sometimes more than one mains on/of cycle was required.
The two capacitors were in the power supply and had been positioned 1 mm away from a heat-sink. The top of both capacitors had bulged (domed).
The TV had a fan and although not providing an air flow to the power supply it had attracted all the dust in the world and required removing and cleaning.
To the OP. When replacing the capacitors buy replacements that are described as low ESR or low Z and are rated for 105C (105 degrees Centigrade) rather than anything rated at 85C.
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