(please note I'm not an electronics expert so please go easy on me!)
Daewoo TV model DTY-28W5GB, 18 months old. Nice easy circuit board to pull out.
What happened was that I turned it on, and there was a crack, and it was dead. I took the lid off and saw a blown fuse in the 250v part.
Found the correct fuse from Maplin, put it back in, 1 second after turning on, CRACK! Fuse had exploded, and a small blue capacitor had melted down and blown itself off the board, and apart.
There are other capacitors on the "low" side of the board looking exactly the same as what this one should have looked like, and they have (I think it says 8 or could be R+), then 471k below this then 1Kv below that.
Nearby, there is a transistor package thing with 6(?) legs called an STR F6653 SK4714 and a friend says it's often them that go too, although physically it looks fine.
I've looked in the Maplin catalogue and can't find anything similar - am I doomed from the start with stuff like this? It's just that repairs are so costly these days, it would be cheaper to scrap it, and that's just more toxic landfill, so I'd rather try it myself.
I suppose and alternative would be a whole replacement circuit board - can't see Daewoo doing that though for an end user. Or maybe?