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how did you break it :0??? slipped with soldering iron and plunged into screen? punched it in anger? accidentally activated your Russian laser eye ability?

just burned power unit %)
six years old screen ъ_Ъ

OH i can fix SMPS's! wait i dont live anywhere near you.. nvmd

heh...
i think i can fix it too and also my dad does it cooler but finding of broken parts can take a lot of time so better i bring da screen in repair center

ah ok, after a few of them you sort of are able to find out what parts need to be replaced just by seeing what failed and what it did when it failed. You also kind know which parts are very unlikely to fail and can at first ignore them. Like the bridge rectifier rarely ever fails. The switching transistors fail very often. Transformer rarely, output rectifiers rarely, output caps very common, input caps almost never, input fuse almost always.. etc

i very love that moment when adding some wrong part transforms other ones in a pile of burnt silicon %)
it looks as if device tells you: "YOU'LL NEVER WIN!"

ya that use to happen a lot with old TVs I worked on

it shoudn't be as much of a problem with SMPS as the hi-pot driver side usually doesn't fail in such a way that surrounding stuff fails, like no short circuit driver feeding into high impedance mosfter gate, or into dead short output, it would usually fail to switch and the only dead part would be the fuse eachtime