Re: Sceptre X32 stays on for about 10 minutes, then turns off.

Thanks guys, I don't have time to do this right now but this weekend I'll bust her open again and report back. The caps are from Digikey. And that picture is just like the board inside mine.

Re: Sceptre X32 stays on for about 10 minutes, then turns off.

Sorry for being rude, I'm just incredibly annoyed at this stupid thing. Thank you for replying. The new caps are all Nichicon PW series, which are low ESR (or at least I bought them thinking they are). The picture in that thread is not the same as mine and his problem seems slightly different, it seems like Sceptre made a ton of different X32 TVs that are different, which is not helping me fix my problem. I will look through that thread, though. The full model is the X322BV-HD. I attached 4 pictures I took before I "fixed"...

Re: Sceptre X32 stays on for about 10 minutes, then turns off.

Nothing, eh? Well thanks for the all the help, folks. Guess I'll light this stupid thing on fire and throw it out a window.

I thought I fixed this thing. Everything I read on the internet said that if I just replaced all the electrolytic capacitors on the power inverter/blacklight board I would be fine. I did that, it's still doing the same exact thing. It stays on for about 10 minutes, then the picture and sound go off but the power LED stays blue like it does when the TV is on. If you unplug it and plug it back in, it does the same thing, although the second time it won't stay on as long, so I think it has something to do with some component malfunctioning when it gets hot. The internet also told me that it was almost...

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I guess I'll post lots of dumb stuff so I can post. Fantastic feature.

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Well that didn't work. I just want to ask a god damn question.

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Just posting so I can post.