Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I got the TV apart and checked the three boards. No visible sings of buldge in any of the capacitors. No burn no melts. Checked out a tv repair place near Georgetown. He gave me a hint of maybe a cracked solder. He also said he could check it out for $45 and if I decided the final repair was too much and wanted to buy a new TV the $45 would go to a new TV. I'll pack it up and take it to him Monday. he said the TV I have is a 2K and now the new TVs are 4K I'm only one generation old. My bedroom TV is four generations old.
Kyle I checked out the curved 4K TVs at Sam's, and also the 60" 4k Sony at the repairs shop. The sony had a better picture but I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on the old set.
Thanks for the heads up on the monitors. That cut out about half of the selections.

LG's 218 OLED TVs rule, but the 217 models are much better deals - CNET

These are an order of magnitude better picture, but also price.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I checked out the curved 4K TVs at Sam's, and also the 60" 4k Sony at the repairs shop.

The picture you see on the displays isn't the best picture you can get. Most TVs these days come with a built in display setting that stores use when they set them up to let people look at them. It usually over saturates the colors and is designed to make the crappy cable TV feed look good. If you really wanna get the skinny on how well (or how badly) a TV will work for you, spend some time on Amazon or the specialized video/home theater sites that do in depth ratings on the things. $.02...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Oh, and my experience with the capacitors is that they LOOK just fine, but they don't work. Do a google search using the number printed onto the outside of the capacitor you want to replace, and you'll turn up not only places to buy a replacement, usually for less than a dollar, but lists of devices that they were used in and maybe even tutorials on how to replace them.

 

[txdon]

Oh, and my experience with the capacitors is that they LOOK just fine, but they don't work. Do a google search using the number printed onto the outside of the capacitor you want to replace, and you'll turn up not only places to buy a replacement, usually for less than a dollar, but lists of devices that they were used in and maybe even tutorials on how to replace them.

There are a lot more capacitors than I thought, probably about 20. Unlike the youtube tutorial these capacitors are mounted sideways.
I like the Mom and pop repair shop they seem to really know their TVs. They know all the "generic" brands and which companies still manufacture their own sets.
I have a few days to research Amazon, thanks.

Thanks for the link Kyle.

 

[Eric Salop]

I've been watching some youtubes on how to fix the TV. The TV just clicks and nothing happens and is most likely a capacitor. Has anyone replace a capacitor in a TV?

Don, to desolder a component like an electrolytic capacitor it's best to use either a small desolder pump or some desolder braid that you place on top of the joint and heat with a solder wetted iron, then all the solder wickes up the braid to leave a clean circuit board. It's easy, but perhaps best to practice on a scrap board first or else the pcb track may lift.

The tricky part is getting the correct replacement capacitor. Those most likely to fail are in the power supply and their replacement in an SMPS (switched mode power supply) needs to not only have the correct voltage rating and capacitance, it but it also needs to present a low impedance to repeated rapidly changing currents. Unless you can buy exactly the same component, you need to select one with an adequate "ESR" for that circuit, or else it will not perform as intended and may well overheat internally.

That repair shop will know from experience where best to look if it is not obvious where the failure is. I would be happy to support a local Mom & Pop shop that gave that sort of service.

 

[Eric Salop]

What's with all this wedding talk, did I miss something yesterday ? If only ...

I'll bet that epoxy was intended to be sprayed, not brushed, Eric.

Yes, you are right. When I ordered the epoxy I forgot the thinners and chanced brushing it. Never mind, it's just another one of those experiences that all go together to make life interesting.

Ron, that is a beautifully built dolly. Now what you need is some good tough paint on the steel - and I happen to know someone with a few spare pints of epoxy they will gladly give you

It looks like to be on the safe side, they ordered an additional day's good weather for the royal wedding, so I intend to make the most of that today and get started with the weeds emerging on the hay field. I get paid a small subsidy from the government for not boom spraying to preserve all the native plants that grow up with the grass. That necessitates a lot of walking to keep the invasive weeds down, though this still being May, I'm hoping it's too early for the horse flies to be out wanting me to make a blood donation.

 

[wngsprd]

69 going to 87, maybe no rain until tonight, maybe.

Eric, hope you get a horsefly-less walk...the deer flies already started chasing me 3 days ago.

Standing water is starting to recede. May start a clean up of debris that washed up from the creek into one of my trails. Yesterday afternoon Coco found a long lost Frisbee that she had lost in the creek...it had washed downstream and up on the bank in a pile of sticks. Also need to do some shovel work where some of the crossing eroded.

RS, hope you are progressing well, and stating away from the smokes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning all. Heard something about a wedding yesterday, but no one i knew.

Up for bathroom break. Doves are cooing. Birds chirping. Guess it is starting to get light out. Back to bed for me.

I bought 55" samsung tv recently to replace 50" sony projection tv. Such a huge difference in picture quality. Bought the vizio 65" display to use at church for a computer display. Good luck with the capacitor. Power supply is first place to look.

 

[Looking4new]

41 and going to a high of 63. Wind NNW 9 gusting to 17 mph. Mix of sun and cloud. It is going to be like this all week.

The rain wasn't too bad, so I threw some grass seed around on the bare spots left from the failed raised bed project.

Gardening is fun stuff, BUT ya gotta keep the weeds out. The D-I-L is the one with the green thumb and she isn't in good enough shape to do it anymore.

The only gardening I could ever do was to grow pot. Yes, I did grow some, once upon a time. Not no more, though. I will wait until it is legal, then watch the plantation grow.

Have a good day all

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-05-20, 0554

53 right now...high in the low 70's.
Main chore is to finish up assembling the chipper. The only thing left is the PTO shaft...oh yeah, and the skid shoes. We'd have had it done yesterday, but once the rain started, it was pretty miserable.
I'll need to get some screws for a replacement PC fan today too....looked high and low, but I have none long enough to mount this fan.


Ronhall, as far as the support bracket....I'll just see how well it does. If it doesn't work (as you'd written), I'll come up with something. I do want the support on the input chute when the chipper isn't rigged to the tractor.