This 10 y.o. TV has a fine picture and satsifies my needs. Several months ago a slightly brighter horizontal line would appear intermittently @ the bottom 5th of the screen. Not very annoying and I knew my skills would not be sufficient to fix until failure occurred. Eventually, the picture did collapse to a single bright horizontal line. I suspected the vertical drive. With no schematic, I removed the chassis [easy] and looked for a bad solder joint, bulging cap or other obvious failure. Found none but reflowed a few joints around what I guessed to be the vertical IC. TV worked fine. Joy. Failed again after a few weeks and process repeated 3 X. Frsutration. I then simply turned the TV off and on and the picture was immediately restored. TV remains fine for weeks before next episode. Since the TV is not cooling down and I am applying no physical pressure, I think I should rule out a thermal issue or bad solder joint. I'm thinking more along the lines of a marginal cap. But I have no ESR [would this even show?] or schematic. Does that sound like a good guess? Does anyone know exactly which cap [by schematic # or value] I should replace [as I'd rather not replace them all]? Thank you for any comments.
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