Hi everybody!

I've got a Vizio E65-F0 smart tv that is good and dead. It shows no signs of life when I press the power button on the back. The power LED in the lower right corner doesn't light, there is no backlight and no picture.

So I took the back off and started poking around figuring one or more of the caps had dried out. My esr meter says all the caps on the power supply board and the mainboard are less than 1 ohm.

I decided to check the voltages coming off the power supply they are as follows:

connector CN201
pin 1 (18vsb1)...

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Hi I'm Iain, I'm an electrical engineer that grew up in the days of the HP computer mobo cap issues. I recapped a bunch of those HP's back in high school with a RadioShack desoldering iron. It was at the same time I was baking many of my friend's XBox 360s that had the red ring of death. Then I went to college and started fixing lab equipment and Roomba vacuum cleaners.

I've fixed a few flat screen TVs but those were always bad caps in the power supply and now I'm up against a Vizio that is fighting me tooth and...