Insignia NS-PDP42 Repair

You didn't say whether you tested ESR or capacitance. Some electrolytics need to be ultra-low ESR types so the reading might look good enough but isn't.

In the UK, some consumer equipment parts sellers offer PSU refurb kits (usually mostly the electrolytics known to cause trouble) If you're trading and charging the going rate it worth the price of a refurb kit to reduce the chances of a return.

Couple of days ago someone threw a Samsung flatscreen in the binroom at the flats, all the brackets & pedestal were missing so I stripped it to harvest the SMD ceramic chip capacitors, the yield was a bit disapointing but I got

Everytime I see one of those opened up - I wonder whether the backlight CCFL transformers would be any good for homebrew stun-guns.

If I have to junk this one, I'll get plenty of parts from it first. Probably just remove the pcb's and hold them for parts. Mikek Mikek

Exactly what I did with the one I dragged out the bin, it had a few bulged lytics - on more than one board.

So far I've used one of the >10uF SMD ceramics in the remote for my HiFi, the weedy lytic on the battery tracks was marginal at best and performance suffered from day 1 - I had to sit there pressing a button till something happened!

With the SMD ceramic added it just works with no faffing about.

You do enjoy using the vernacular! (This does go across the pond!)

And septics don't?!