Hey guys, so I just bought this samsung 40" LCD TV for 150$. The symptoms were that the TV would only turn on sometimes after constantly clicking the power button. Once the TV is left on for a few minutes, it would easily be able turn off and back on again with no problems. Kind of pricey but I was at least 90% sure it was bad capacitors. Bought the TV, opened it up, and what do you know, lots of bloated samwha capacitors on the power supply! 
Out of the dozen of TVs I've repaired so far this is actually the first one with the "common" capacitor problem I've read about =)
Now, I'm thinking about using salvaged capacitors with low esr to replace the bloated ones with. Would this be an okay solution as long as the capacitors i use to replace have low esr values even though it may not be a good quality brand?
EDIT: Hmm, the bloated capacitors seem to be, 10V 1000uf, and 25V 1000uf, I just found a load of salvaged rubycon 25V 1000uf caps. Would it be okay to just replaced all the caps with those rubycons even though some of the caps in the PSU is specified as 10V?
Out of the dozen of TVs I've repaired so far this is actually the first one with the "common" capacitor problem I've read about =)
Now, I'm thinking about using salvaged capacitors with low esr to replace the bloated ones with. Would this be an okay solution as long as the capacitors i use to replace have low esr values even though it may not be a good quality brand?
EDIT: Hmm, the bloated capacitors seem to be, 10V 1000uf, and 25V 1000uf, I just found a load of salvaged rubycon 25V 1000uf caps. Would it be okay to just replaced all the caps with those rubycons even though some of the caps in the PSU is specified as 10V?
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