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Equipment Repairs => LCD TV forum => Topic started by: jniteguy2 on November 26, 2009,05:25:00

Title: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: jniteguy2 on November 26, 2009,05:25:00

dont know much about tv's other then watching them any help would be great!

Title: Re: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: EARLYBIRD on November 26, 2009,05:57:44

Hi.This is not a major problem,any local tv dealer should be able to cure your fault.There are various capacitors in the power supply that have become slow to warm up causing your tv to take 5 mins to come on.Dont try to repair it yourself if you are not sure what you are doing.

Title: Re: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: jniteguy2 on November 26, 2009,07:40:14

 :clap:thanks for the info should the repair be very costly, like i said dont know much and really dont want to get ripped off which seems to be the theme noadays. once agian thanks for the help.PS is this something that i might be able to tackle myself im a mechanic by trade but intrigued by the gadgets!! but dont want to screw up a good tv :oops:

Title: Re: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: Quick_Silver on November 26, 2009,10:09:18

have a look here m8 much the same thing

http://www.tv.quuq.org/forum/index.php?topic=1744.0

Title: Re: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: Turnip on November 26, 2009,12:46:29

Well said Quick Silver,

  How do you do it without model number or correct screen size - Rather impressed - Chris.

Title: Re: samsung lcd 42 inch powers on and off for 5 minutes before is actually comes on?
Post by: Quick_Silver on November 26, 2009,18:15:59

On a wing and a prayer :wink1: