I own a Samsung LN32A450 TV set, which has been fairly good so farā¦ until last weekend, when it didnāt turn on. Instead, the power LED flashed steadily at about one flash every 500 ms.
It seems that my TV set suffered from the capacitor plague. A bunch of the Samwha capacitors swelled up and were no longer to spec. I could order a replacement board (the board is BN44-00214A available from findparts4you.com). A little searching showed that others had successfully revived their power boards just by replacing the capacitors.
First, I had to open the TV set. This involved removing 16 screws (all the same size) from the back. I discoverd I had to be careful with the ones marked āSā - those four also hold the TV stand in place, so I wanted to remove them last. Also, thereās a screw on the back panel below the āEX-Linkā connector, and another one on the back underneath the A/V 2 inputs.
Once I did that I could slide the back off (face down, since the support was unscrewed). The power board is the one in the middle. There are five connectors to disconnect from there: two at the upper left, one at the upper right, and two power connectors that go to the lower right. In my case they stayed in the right position once I removed them because there was tape holding them to the flat panel.
After that, I removed 6 small screws that held the power board in. I didnāt need to remove any of the standoffs - theyāre just there to push the board away from the flat panel.
When I investigated the board, I could see the telltale swelling of capacitors that indicated problems. I saw problems with four capacitors:
CB852 in the middle right of the board: 2200 uF 10V CW856 near the top left: 470 uF 25V CW858 right below CW856: 680 uF 25V CM868 right below CW858: 680 uF 35V
Some people reported success with using Radio Shack replacement capacitors. I was a little nervous about that - these caps are all rated to 105 degrees C and have high ripple current tolerance, and I didnāt want to swap in something Iād just have to replace later. I ended up getting replacements from Digi-Key. They have a minimum $25 order (otherwise they charge you $5 for handling). Luckily I had some other stuff to buy at the same time.
I replaced them with the following:
CB852: Panasonic EEU-FC1A222L (Digi-Key part P11189-ND) CW856: Panasonic EEU-FM1E471 (Digi-Key part P12388-ND) CW858: Panasonic EEU-FM1E681 (Digi-Key part P12390-ND) CM868: Panasonic EEU-FM1V681 (Digi-Key part P12417-ND)
The replacement for CB852 was about 1 cm taller than the original part, and that made it the tallest part on the board. I was a little worried about that, but there seemed to be enough clearance that it didnāt cause a problem.
These capacitors are electrolytic and have a polarity, so I had to replace them the same way āround that the originals were. Luckily, on my circuit board all the negative terminals were marked with a white semicircle underneath the capacitor.
After that, I plugged the cables back into the board (not forgetting the single-pin green ground cable). Then I put the 6 screws back.
Next I put the cover back on and put the 16 screws back in. I started with the base āSā screws, then the top three, then kind of haphazardly put the rest in the right places.
Then I powered up. Success! The TV came on and was as good as it was before this happened.
A few links I found useful: forums.cnet.com/7723-13973_102-334836/samsung-ln32a450-died/ forums.cnet.com/7723-13973_102-401147/samsung-ln32a450-power-light-blinking-but-does-not-power-up/ forums.cnet.com/7723-13973_102-359389/samsung-lcd-tv-ln-t5265f-black-screen-diagnosis-help/ www.samsung.com/us/capacitorsettlement/