Power Supply seems to have failed

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Power Supply seems to have failed

I was able to tell when 3 capacitors were " swollen"and the big one started to. The round fuse was gone. It seems that ashort circuit is present since we tried to replace the fuse and it blew it again. Thanks for the help

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Ok so here is my update. I spoke with people at Target's Corp. customer services. I had to jump thru some hoops, if you want my opinion, I think there are legal things going on between Target and Venture Electronics, formerly known as Alco, the suppliers of Trutech. I was giving two numbers to try from a woman at Target, who was very nice and helpful, but unwilling to elaborate to much. When both numbers failed she sent a Venture tech an email on my behalf. Two days later I was contacted by a rep who all of my info. The long and short of it is that I am right now two weeks later watching my formerly broken tv. Venture paid for my shipping both ways and fixed the tv. The tech did admit that the capacitors are a problem but in some cases there have been other issues as well. The tech I worked with might get pissed at this but who cares. The tech number is (905) 477-7878 his name is David, and his ext. 5095. He is very helpful but you have to stay on top of him, I had to call every other day for a week to get the shipping tag so I send them my tv. Good luck to all hope everyone is able to have the success I have.

Posted on Feb 21, 2008

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How can u tell if the capacitor is "swollen" like garbage state without seeing any physical damage on it?

Posted on Feb 20, 2008

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