This forum has been incredible helpful to me before, and I'm hoping you guys can give me some more advice and help me out again.

I came across an LG 50PG60 50" plasma real cheap, and thought I'd take a gamble to see if I could get it up and running. The top 1/3 of the screen is crystal clear, and the botton 2/3 is black.

All voltages check out from best I could tell, and a buddy who knows more than I do recommended I change out the Y-buffers. I bought them on ebay, and when I change them out, the entire screen lights up but is completely distorted and flashing...

These forums have been so helpful to me recently, and I can't thank everyone enough, and now I have my own little problem that I can't find any answers on.

So I bought this LG 47LE5400 damaged. The previous owner tripped over an HDMI cable that was plugged into it, and now none of the HDMI ports work. It was on a single side port, away from the other 3 HDMI ports on the board. It has obvious damage inside the port.

My question is: is the board salvagable? Can the port be either replaced or disabled, making the other ports work?

Any advice would be extremely...

Re: Help Identifying a capacitor for a power board 3501Q00201A..

nevermind, got it!

Bought a broken Vizio P42HDTV10A that was in mid-repair and decided to make a little project out of it. I've come across post on here about common problems with the tv, and I'm hoping I can get to the point where I can diagnose it, but first thing is first: When I took off the back panel, the first thing I noticed was that a couple of the caps were already missing.

It is from the power board, # 3501Q00201A, and I've learned is used in several other models. It is the 2 large caps on on the right side of the power board, c169 and c170. I've come across pictures of the board that...