Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

My son't Plasma TV is a Vizio VP50HDTV (samsung S50HW YD02). When I searched for documentation, it was missing information which I thought would be critical to understand theory and board identification and function. How does a novice go about understanding and diagnosing this unit? It appears there's a lot written about problems on the main board, but this one looks good. Fuses all good but one cap on the far right board. Any ideas for me to move forward?

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

My name is Steve, born and raised in Kansas, retired from AT&T Support Services--I was a property and fleet manager from 1980 until retirement. I'm guilty of being a devout gearhead; I enjoy residential construction, gardening, and fixing anything that's broken. I graduated from Wichita Tech Institute in 2010 and found that electronics can be fun, if you understand it. I need patient mentors. I arrived at this site because my 21 year-old son asked me to fix his Plasma TV and I discovered that there are folks out there in...