I have a vintage 2008 Samsung 50” Plasma TV, Model code PN50A550S1FXZA with a power supply part number BN44-00222A. I repaired the power supply board several years ago finding a couple of cold solder joints on the back side of the board and it's worked great up until now. Recently a fried sound occurred with the smell of burnt electronics and the TV shut down. Trying to turn it back on yielded the typical relay clicking with no TV boot up. Upon investigation, removing feeds to the other boards within the TV it was found that disconnecting the logic board from the power supply allowed the TV to begin boot up. A visual inspection of the power supply board found two bulging capacitors CX834 and CX835, both 2200ufd 10v electrolytics. Not having a schematic of the board I had hopes that this was the issue and replaced them. Turning the TV back on it began boot up however another fried sound and burnt electronics oder occurred and the TV went back into relay clicking mode. This time I see nothing obvious visually but using my nose, it smells like the burnt area appears to be near the two transformers located to the right center of the board.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this board who can throw out some ideas as to what has failed? Why does removing the logic board connector allow the TV to start boot up? The green LED's on that board do flash initially.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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