So my mother-in-law moved closer to us and splurged on a big TV for her retirement apartment. It was a 2022 Samsung 55″ NeoQ-LED TV – discontinued but here’s its details. It died 3 months after the warranty ended; it only showed black screen and wouldn’t power up. Samsung Support said “pay us big bucks to repair it” and she decided to buy a new one instead. She begged us to take the Samsung and “fix it up for yourselves or get rid of it.” We’re getting rid of it.
Here’s what our Google-fu on this problem turned up.
- It is a known problem with Samsung TVs apparently – they skimp on the capacitors for the boards on the inside. If just one of these fails, the whole board stops working.
- The repair is not hard – you can either purchase a brand new control unit (a few hundred bucks from non-OEM sources like eBay) or replace the capacitor(s) yourself (you must buy them and then install them with your fantastic soldering skills).
- Is it just one capacitor or several gone bad? Or is it another problem entirely? We don’t know but you might have way more electronic knowledge than us and be willing to give it a go.
So we would like to give this non-functional but maybe-could-become functional TV to you. For free. You just need to come and pick it at the college’s parking garage.
Here are some pics
- The TV model plaque
- The TV board plaque
- Views of the TV board with capacitors
- Capacitor close up to that tilted yellow one on the end is my suspected “bad one”
Remember the details:
- It doesn’t turn on and is out of warranty. I can’t be totally sure but the symptoms are consistent with the capacitor problem.
- The screen itself is in great shape but without the board to drive the picture, there is no way to use any other connector (HDMI, etc). You have to fix the board to make this useable. IMO. I could be wrong. Prove me wrong 😉
First come, first get it.
Email me at j.thompson@Hvcc.edu if you are interested.