Yesterday I managed to repair a broken television by replacing a busted capacitor on its power supply board. As a novice with electronics and soldering, this felt gratifying and empowering. $10 and a few hours of learning saved needing to get a new TV. 
@voidabyss
>I thought of it as just a thing to try before giving up and getting a new one.
and an excuse to learn more electronics/electrical, that I've been trying to learn.
and "getting a new one" as in "new to me" (used)
>I thought of it as just a thing to try before giving up and getting a new one.
and an excuse to learn more electronics/electrical, that I've been trying to learn.
and "getting a new one" as in "new to me" (used)
@aven Thank you for sharing the information for you used for the repair, I would like to learn electronics as well and I think the best place to start is tinkering with repairs 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Pqx6LMT2w
To be fair, I was very pleasantly surprised I actually fixed it. I thought of it as just a thing to try before giving up and getting a new one.
It previously had a problem with being unable to turn on. The standby light would blink red. Very strangely, I found that using a hairdryer/heatgun helped it boot up, thanks to this advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvr1J0Iwjm0
(the failing capacitor could not work well enough when temperatures decreased in the start of winter)