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    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Moondog on Mon Oct 28 17:12:30 2019
    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?

    I googled the model and symptoms, and I wasn't the only person having the same issue. Also due to the age of the TV, it was made in a period when a bunch of bad capacitors were being made. One article explained the voltage 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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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Tue Oct 29 10:27:00 2019
    Re: World Series
    By: Nightfox to Moondog on 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?

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

    Ah, I did that one time.. I had a DVD player that stopped working and Googl

    I was curious how they determined it was the capacitor. I don't remember if

    Nightfox


    There was a rash of bad capacitors coming out of Asia roughly between 2002
    and 2006. The story I heard was one manufacturer made a change to save
    money, and through industrial espionage, several other companies also made
    the change in their electrolytic formula. In the following 4 or 5 years, cap failure was a common thing. Even in older electronics, capacitors
    have been known to dry up over time. Many older Mac models have leaky capacitors, and if they are not replaced or cleaned up, the chemical could destroy the traces on the boards, making them un restorable.

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