A customer brought in 19 inch Led television for check
up, complaint was the television was not able to power up.
It was attempting then shut down in cycles, since it
was using power adapter I tested the output from the adapter power supply and I
got 12.44 vdc.
This looks okay according to the printed output on the
adapter body.
So now I was ready to go the next level, opening the
television and do further troubleshooting.
But before that I decided to swap the power adapter
with the one I use in the shop for testing television in case the owner forgot
to bring it along.
After powering the television I was surprised to see
the TV has picked up and now working perfectly.
Yes but sometimes the power output can read okay but
fail under load and the best method of solving this problem is by substitution
or use a load at the output.
The assumption that the television was the problem
changed with the new development and therefore I opened the power adapter and
this is what I saw.
These
capacitors were rated 1000uF/16V and i replaced them with 1000uF/25V to avoid
repeat repair.
After replacing and re-testing this I what saw on the
screen.
Great lesson.Things aren't always what they look like. You saved the customer. I been to electronics shop today and so a customer buy led power supply module to replace a dead one expensively and now that I'm reading this article I can't help thinking that his power supply could have been easily repaired.Techs do a great job to save the environment.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback and passing by
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I had a similar situation. My DSTV Adapter was failing to boot. I measured the output and gave me 19vdc. I Then decided to swap the adapters since I have two and the adapter was able to scan the channels. Upon opening the faulty adapter, I found one capacitor with a bulged top.
ReplyDeleteGREAT JOB! THE BACKUP ADAPTER YOU HAD SAVED A LOT OF TIME IN THE REPAIR AND DEALT WITH THE MUCH TROUBLE SHOOTING.
ReplyDeleteWell put! Thanks for your inputs.
DeleteRegards Humphrey
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ReplyDeleteAn intelligent trouble shooting. Keep us posted
ReplyDeleteDoes this tv contain internal channels
ReplyDeleteOur adapter just burnt how do we go about it?
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