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Not to bore everyone, but I have had a Samsung TV issue lately and research lead me to believe it was the capacitors. So, i recently switched them out. TV is still not working properly. If any of you have experience with this, let me know so I can see if you have any tips.

Thanks!

Hunkerdown II wrote:Not to bore everyone, but I have had a Samsung TV issue lately and research lead me to believe it was the capacitors. So, i recently switched them out. TV is still not working properly. If any of you have experience with this, let me know so I can see if you have any tips.

Thanks!

what was the issue?

TV will turn on and off multiple times when you first turn it on.

sounds like the power. Weather that be the outlet, cord, or the power supply in the TV I am not sure.

Mine does the same thing. Took it down bought a new one and made the Samsung a tailgate tv. From my research it was a cap issue as well.

Google the problem. I replaced the capacitor in mine and I am not much of a tech! you have to put a bigger size and no more problem. Videos on YouTube also.

i googled it and watched youtube which is what lead me to the capacitor issue. When i took it apart, only one was blown, so I only changed the one. Do they work in pairs? meaning, did i need to replace them both? I still have 2 of them on the board, but one is new and one is the old but seemingly still good.

Hunkerdown II wrote:i googled it and watched youtube which is what lead me to the capacitor issue. When i took it apart, only one was blown, so I only changed the one. Do they work in pairs? meaning, did i need to replace them both? I still have 2 of them on the board, but one is new and one is the old but seemingly still good.

You can test the capacitance using a multimeter that has the capability built in. I'd pull it back apart and verify what your reading on each cap is in line with what it's supposed to be.

Having a multimeter that can test capacitance comes in handy around the house when dealing with appliances and also the outside A/C compressor start/run Caps. Caps don't always bulge or ooze when they go bad.

I just replaced the one on mine and it was obvious that it was bad. Bulged out on top.

There's a lawsuit out there on this issue. Samsung will replace it for free if it's within the affected time period. They replaced mine a year ago.

LawDawg wrote:There's a lawsuit out there on this issue. Samsung will replace it for free if it's within the affected time period. They replaced mine a year ago.

I picked up one off the curb about 2 years ago. It's in my bonus room

Samsung replaced my tv.

so, I switched out both capacitors and it worked. Thanks for the advice.

LawDawg wrote:There's a lawsuit out there on this issue. Samsung will replace it for free if it's within the affected time period. They replaced mine a year ago.

I tried this with mine. It was in the time period but they said the date had passed that they had to do this. Who knows if true but that is what they told me.