Went to bed last night with my JVC AV-36980 working just fine. Tried to turn it on today at around noon and NOTHING. Tried unplugging it plugging it back in and nothing. I'm an Electrical Engineer but did not want any part of taking this monster apart and troubleshooting it. I called a local(Louisville, KY) TV repair place and they said they charge $50.00 to pick it up and around $100.00 to fix and another $50.00 to bring it back. I got on the internet and found this site. I went to Radio Shack and picked up the 1000uf 35V capacitor and within 30 minutes of getting home with it my TV is working again. The part cost $1.59. The hardest part of the whole process was getting the cover back on the back of the TV by myself. In retrospect I would have gotten a 1000uf 50V capacitor instead of the 35V to prevent this from happening again. Thanks to all of you out there who posted on this site with a "fairly" simple fix if you are at all mechanically and electrically inclined. Sometimes having a common problem that a lot of people are having is better than having some rare one that would have required a visit to the repair shop.

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