Hello,
So I caught my TV smoking the other day and hes only 5 years old! Seriously though, for a few days before the smoking I could hear a strange sound coming from the back of the TV, it sort of sounded like a little scratching. Actually at first I thought maybe there was mouse or something in my dresser which the LCD TV is on. But after listening to it closely I could tell it was coming from the TV, however I let it go because I thought that maybe the sound was coming from the speakers and maybe it was a problem with the video file I was watching off the USB stick.
Anyway one night my wife and I were watching something on the TV and suddenly something went "POP!!" from the right side of the TV and right away a bunch of white smoke started poring out from the bottom. At that moment the TV was still playing fine but within a few seconds of the POP sound, I turned it off and jumped up and unplugged it from the wall. Anyway the smoke finally stopped and cleared up quickly with not much smell.
The other day I finally took the back cover off the TV to inspect what might have gone wrong. What I found was on the back cover there was some sort of brown clear liquid which was also the side which the smoke came out of. Also on one of the circuit broads I could see some of the same brown liquid, the board also being on the same side with the smoke. So I sort of zoned in on these three capacitors which looked a little plump and were also in the area of the heavy amounts of liquid. I suspect it's these three or at least one of these capacitors that went pop.
Here are my questions:
1. Looking at the photo, do you think the capacitors look bad?
2. What is that black thing that seems to be holding the tops of the three capacitors in place?
3. Where can I get new capacitors if in fact these are bad
Also some more info:
This is a LG LCD TV, 42 inch screen and I bought it here in Switzerland about 5 years ago
Thanks,
Bruce
So I caught my TV smoking the other day and hes only 5 years old! Seriously though, for a few days before the smoking I could hear a strange sound coming from the back of the TV, it sort of sounded like a little scratching. Actually at first I thought maybe there was mouse or something in my dresser which the LCD TV is on. But after listening to it closely I could tell it was coming from the TV, however I let it go because I thought that maybe the sound was coming from the speakers and maybe it was a problem with the video file I was watching off the USB stick.
Anyway one night my wife and I were watching something on the TV and suddenly something went "POP!!" from the right side of the TV and right away a bunch of white smoke started poring out from the bottom. At that moment the TV was still playing fine but within a few seconds of the POP sound, I turned it off and jumped up and unplugged it from the wall. Anyway the smoke finally stopped and cleared up quickly with not much smell.
The other day I finally took the back cover off the TV to inspect what might have gone wrong. What I found was on the back cover there was some sort of brown clear liquid which was also the side which the smoke came out of. Also on one of the circuit broads I could see some of the same brown liquid, the board also being on the same side with the smoke. So I sort of zoned in on these three capacitors which looked a little plump and were also in the area of the heavy amounts of liquid. I suspect it's these three or at least one of these capacitors that went pop.
Here are my questions:
1. Looking at the photo, do you think the capacitors look bad?
2. What is that black thing that seems to be holding the tops of the three capacitors in place?
3. Where can I get new capacitors if in fact these are bad
Also some more info:
This is a LG LCD TV, 42 inch screen and I bought it here in Switzerland about 5 years ago
Thanks,
Bruce
