Re: Vizio E320VL Backlight Issues, Inverter board?

Thanks for the help everyone. No the tv has not been worked on before. However the board that I purchase appears to have been tampered with. I'm going to work on getting it returned. If not I will replace the cap and hope there isn't other problems that are associated with this board that I don't see right off hand.

Re: Vizio E320VL Backlight Issues, Inverter board?

Here are some pictures of the board. I discovered what had happened with the original board upon closer inspection and have attached a picture of that as well.

On a closer look I found a component missing, location labeled C408 (first attached image) on the new board, but not sure how important it would be. It might have been there at one time by how the soldering remains on the back of the board.

See anything else unusual with the replacement I had purchased? Would it still function properly with this...

I had problems with this tv this summer when one day trying to turn on the TV the vizio logo on the front turned from amber to white. However there was no backlight, no picture and no sound. I didn't have time or money to mess with because of moving to a new house and it got put into a corner. I pulled it out over Christmas break and decided to see if it could be a simple repair. Did some research on this forum and narrowed it down to being the power inverter.

I ordered a used inverter off of eBay, maybe my first mistake. The backlight on my tv unit started to work, along with video...

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Happy New Year BadCap Forum.

Have been using your site for electronics help in the past and found it to be a great source. Looking forward to contributing and having other help me on my specific questions.