{"id":24038,"date":"2025-04-14T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/free-but-needs-electronic-repair-55-samsung-qled-tv\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:38:25","slug":"free-but-needs-electronic-repair-55-samsung-qled-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/free-but-needs-electronic-repair-55-samsung-qled-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Free but needs electronic repair &#8211; 55&#8243; Samsung QLED TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So my mother-in-law moved closer to us and splurged on a big TV for her retirement apartment.\u00a0 It was a 2022 Samsung 55&#8243; NeoQ-LED TV &#8211; discontinued but here&#8217;s its <a href=\"http:\/\/officedepot.com\/a\/products\/4984666\/Samsung-QN95B-QN55QN95BAF-55-Smart-LED\/?bvstate=pg:2\/ct:r\">details<\/a>.\u00a0 It died 3 months after the warranty ended; it only showed black screen and wouldn&#8217;t power up.\u00a0 Samsung Support said &#8220;pay us big bucks to repair it&#8221; and she decided to buy a new one instead.\u00a0 She begged us to take the Samsung and &#8220;fix it up for yourselves or get rid of it.&#8221;\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what our Google-fu on this problem turned up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a known problem with Samsung TVs apparently &#8211; they skimp on the capacitors for the boards on the inside. If just one of these fails, the whole board stops working.<\/li>\n<li>The repair is not hard &#8211; 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).<\/li>\n<li>Is it just one capacitor or several gone bad? Or is it another problem entirely?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know but you might have way more electronic knowledge than us and be willing to give it a go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So we would like to give this non-functional but maybe-could-become functional TV to you.\u00a0 For free.\u00a0 You just need to come and pick it at the college&#8217;s parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/but we do know we don't want this TV hanging around in the house anymore.\">The TV model plaque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/but we do know we don't want this TV hanging around in the house anymore.\">The TV board plaque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/but we do know we don't want this TV hanging around in the house anymore.\">Views of the TV board with capacitors <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/but we do know we don't want this TV hanging around in the house anymore.\">Capacitor close up to that tilted yellow one on the end is my suspected &#8220;bad one&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t turn on and is out of warranty.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t be totally sure but the symptoms are consistent with the capacitor problem.<\/li>\n<li>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).\u00a0 You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have<\/span> to fix the board to make this useable.\u00a0 IMO.\u00a0 I could be wrong.\u00a0 Prove me wrong \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First come, first get it.<\/p>\n<p>Email me at <a href=\"mailto:j.thompson@Hvcc.edu\">j.thompson@Hvcc.edu<\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:38:25 +0000 by\u00a0j.thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So my mother-in-law moved closer to us and splurged on a big TV for her retirement apartment.\u00a0 It was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classifieds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}