On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, maccrawj wrote: > >> all the popped caps were a known crap hu-flung-dung brand. > > At my company we've been doing manual repairs quite successfully on > electronics with bad caps recently (on motherboards at least). It has saved > us a lot of money in warranty repairs on some systems we sold with 3 year > warranties without realizing that the manufacture warranty was only 1 year. > About 10 of those systems have had bad caps at about 18 months of life, and I > am sure that the rest just havn't shown their age yet. > > With a little practice on some old motherboards you can likely get to the > point with soldering where it is worthwhile to fix these types of issues. > > > Christopher Fisk
For what it's worth, my 1.5 year old TV -- a Samsung 40-inch LCD (LNT4069) -- recently stopped turning on. It would make clicking noises like it was "trying" to turn on but never would. After googling, I found it was a very common problem that was traced back to you -- you got it -- bad caps! So after trips to *3* different radioshacks (each radioshack only had 1 capacitor of the size/voltage I needed) and a grand total of about $4.50, I was able to replace 3 bulging capacitors on the tv board. All is perfect now. I had never replaced caps before but would definitely give it a shot on mobos/etc the next time it pops up. The board and capacitors inside the TV were quite large so it wasn't a hard soldering job, and I did it with nothing but a straight soldering iron. I would think for mobo work some of the accessories others in this thread have mentioned would be nice. Scott
