Hello everyone,

I've recently been given a Sony 8k Z8H. It's got a white screen with two vertical black bars. At times it's given me the 5 blink Tcon code. Testing voltage on the Tcon I can see some low or missing voltage. I've done a basic visual check of cables and the COF. Not seeing anything obvious. The original Tcon seemed to have good caps until turning it over. On the bottom I found maybe 10 caps with both sides of the caps shorting to ground. I thought ok these caps and likely other components on the Tcon are shorted so let's try a replacement Tcon. I just received the...

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Hello, my name is Daren. I've had interest in electronics for a while. I work in tech. My component level experience is limited to replacing some caps on a dead amp or building guitar pedal kits or modding them. I've recently picked up a dead Sony 8K TV I'm stumped on and looking forward to hear what everyone has to say about where to look next. I'll throw a post up about it soon here.