Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light



Can you point out the stby cap in my picture? is it on the power board or elsewhere? Sounds like that might be a possibility as that exactly whats happening. Would like to try and replace it if I can. Also, just to elaborate, after applying the heat the stby light comes on and I can power on the TV briefly but then it starts power cycling... turning on/off repeatedly....

Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light

Yes, talking about the metal box with the holes in it. I'm not sure what's in there but will take a closer look and post some additional pics.

Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light

Attached are pics of my powerboard. I don't see any bad caps (noticeably) on this board or any of the others. Interesting to me that right now when the TV is plugged in there no standby light on, when I blow a hair dryer on the lower left hand quadrant of the power board for less than 30 seconds it powers right on... I basically blew the air on the metal piece to the right of where the power supply cord coming from the wall plugs into the power board.
i can't make this stuff up ...

Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light

I only checked the power board, but based on the above posts i'm thinking maybe i'll check the back of the X and Y boards as to see if there are any obvious solder issues there.

Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light

tried this last night, touched up the solder on all the heat sink points and most of them i could see. No luck, TV is still powering on/off multiple times in a row every couple minutes.

Re: Samsung PN60E6500EF blinking red light

Hi guys, i have this exact same issue... it was not working at all for about 2 weeks. I was about to give up then last night I used a hair dryer and blew heat on the power board for about 2 minutes and it fired right up and ran all night. That was last night, today I used the hair dryer to get it going again but it's done the power cycling on/off a few times already. Can anyone post pics to show more detail on how to recognize bad solder on any of the boards? and how do you fix it? just apply solder to the joints that are found to be bad?...