Repair Kit, Samsung LN46A550, LCD TV, Capacitors, Not The Entire Board

I purchased a Samsung LN46A550 in early summer 2008. Around 2011 it started to have the "click of death" and after a few days, wouldn't come on at all. Some research revealed that this set suffered from capacitor plague. Since I had an extended warranty, I filed a claim. Two days later a repairman showed up, replaced two bulging caps on the power board, and the TV was resurrected.In January 2014 the problem recurred. It would click four or five times until it finally came on. Rats. I really like the set; it gets heavy use and I have always enjoyed its picture quality. The thought of replacing it didn't please me, so we left it on 24 hours a day while I looked for a repair kit and found this. It arrived in a few days.Upon pulling the power board out of the television, I found that the two capacitors replaced a few years ago were not bulged, but three more were. I replaced both 25V 820's and both 25V 470's, and voila! One click and the set came on. I didn't replace the 10V 1000's because they were not showing distress and had been previously replaced under extended warranty. Similarly, I didn't use the 50V 47's because they were also not showing distress. But I kept them just in case.I have little experience soldering and I had never desoldered anything before this repair. I own a cheap soldering iron that wasn't very effective for desoldering. In the middle of this repair I went to a home improvement retailer and bought a 100/140W iron that made the work very easy. Pull the trigger and it gets smokin' hot in a few seconds, and it got sufficiently hot that the copper desoldering braid worked really well. The iron may have grealy increased the cost of the repair (indeed, the iron was nearly double the price of this repair kit) but it's a lot cheaper than a new television and I get to keep the iron.I cannot comment on the quality of the capacitors in this kit because I know very little about capacitors.If this repair holds (and I have no reason to believe it won't) then we'll get a lot more use out of this otherwise fine television. This is only the second time it's been off the wall in 5.5 years and I hope it's another three years or more before it comes off again.

Well, Shazaamm! it worked! The 46" TV developed the "clicking" at power on symptom (at about 8 years old). It did turn on, but it seemed clear that it would soon not even turn on. I bought this kit, looked at some videos (there are many, plus the ones referred to in the instructions.) The whole thing took maybe 40 minutes, but that was because we were calling my five year old grandson over occasionally to show him some interesting parts of it. Two caps were bulged on top; we replaced only those two, reassembled, and it worked just fine. This is a good kit in that it had several more caps; apparently the same ones are not always the problem. It was a really nice solution in that the TV still delivers the like-new picture, which after 8 years I still find stunningly good.

I've had my LN46A550 for nearly 7 years and it has seen very heavy use, serving my household well. All things considered, a great TV, overall. Recently, the set started experiencing the infamous click of death, where the set would take increasing amounts of time to turn on. It was about to give up the ghost. While I could have purchased capacitors and desoldering wick piecemeal, I had never done any kind of repair like this before and wanted to minimize the room for error. This kit has everything needed to repair the faulty capacitors in these TVs, with the exception of the soldering iron. I only had two bad caps, which were easy enough to replace, with the help of an easy to follow youtube vid. (One can just search YT for LN46A550.)I'm keeping the spare capacitors in case any others go bad. Fixing the capacitors on this TV is a very easy, quick repair for anyone who has a minimum experience of at least building a computer/minor technical know-how.

My TV had completely died except for a little clicking and flash of the screen. After doing some research I ended up opening up the TV and finding the tops of 4 or 5 capacitors were bulging out (bad).If you are familiar with soldering this is really pretty straight forward. It's all through hole soldering and no multi layer boards here.I used a solder iron and solder sucker not the wire wick that was supplied.Protip: I desoldered one at a time and refitted with the proper size. Only to bend their leads and triple check polarity NOT solder yet. Once all were placed in the holes and I rechecked polarity 10x did I solder and cut all the leads.

My Samsung was doing the click of death thing, so after searching I eventually came across this kit. I did not see any capacitors with signs of failure but I used all of them in the kit. My TV is working again and I'm a happy man.I did have an issue receiving my order but it appears our USPS lost my first order. I sent an email asking "Where's my Stuff?" I received an email response very quickly and they sent me another which I received a few days later.Maybe it's a little expensive for capacitors, but it was definitely worth the convenience of a one stop shop.

Purchased this kit to resolve the "clicking" power issue. We purchased a new TV to replace this one, so this one was going to go in the man cave if the repair was successful. Only needed two capacitors out of the kit and it was very easy to repair!For those wondering how difficult the process is, I have only soldered things a couple times in my life. The only difficulty that I had was de-soldering the existing capacitors that I was replacing, but that had nothing to do with this kit. Tested the TV and it powered on right away.