Samsung 32" from 2012 (easy fix)

[radiotvnut]

The other night, someone brought me this 32" Samsung TV from 2012, after it had stopped working. He said he called a shop about fixing it and they told him over the phone that the problem was either a bad panel or a bad sensor and it would cost at least $200 to fix it. He then thought about putting it to the street; but, remembered that I worked on electronics. So, he gave it to me.

Upon power up, I found that it would fire up, shut down, fire up, shut down until the plug was pulled. As soon as I pulled the back, I spotted a puffed up Samwa 47uf,160V capacitor. After I replaced that capacitor, the set fired up and worked fine.

I think we all know that Samwa capacitors are not known for their quality and I probably should have recapped the whole power supply board; but, I left well enough alone for now.

I don't know if this set will stay here, be sold, or be given away; but, I was glad to finally get a modern TV that was an easy fix.