Hello all. My brother in law had his Samsung LN46C630K1F tv go out on him. He said he was watching it when all of a sudden it started smoking and went out. He turned it off and back on and got nothing. So he gave it to me to try to save.
I took the back off hoping to find an obvious bad capacitor, but all looked good. I plugged the TV in to see what it did. When I plugged it in, all was fine. When I turned it on, the TV attempts to light up the display, it flickers a brief second of light before quitting and staying black. But about 5 seconds after this attempt I realized smoke was coming from the back of the TV and I looked and found the small ceramic disc capacitor it was coming from.
So now I think I need to replace this capacitor, but I'm not sure what size it is. There doesn't appear to have been a label on it, or if there was it burned off. None of the other similar looking ones on the board have labels either. However, the area on the PCB where the pins of the capacitor poke through to connect to the traces is labeled CP820. I've attached a photo of the power board with the capacitor in question circled with a yellow highlighter.
Can anyone help me find a replacement part for this? And if you have any other advice I'm all ears. I don't have much experience with TV repair, but I've got a lot of experience with soldering parts onto boards and all kinds of other things electrical. I'm hoping nothing else on the TV is fried and I can pick one of these caps up for a dollar or two somewhere and be on my way to fixing this thing up.
I took the back off hoping to find an obvious bad capacitor, but all looked good. I plugged the TV in to see what it did. When I plugged it in, all was fine. When I turned it on, the TV attempts to light up the display, it flickers a brief second of light before quitting and staying black. But about 5 seconds after this attempt I realized smoke was coming from the back of the TV and I looked and found the small ceramic disc capacitor it was coming from.
So now I think I need to replace this capacitor, but I'm not sure what size it is. There doesn't appear to have been a label on it, or if there was it burned off. None of the other similar looking ones on the board have labels either. However, the area on the PCB where the pins of the capacitor poke through to connect to the traces is labeled CP820. I've attached a photo of the power board with the capacitor in question circled with a yellow highlighter.
Can anyone help me find a replacement part for this? And if you have any other advice I'm all ears. I don't have much experience with TV repair, but I've got a lot of experience with soldering parts onto boards and all kinds of other things electrical. I'm hoping nothing else on the TV is fried and I can pick one of these caps up for a dollar or two somewhere and be on my way to fixing this thing up.
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