Hi brains trust. A quick update. I noticed that the back light flashes very very briefly on power up (almost too fast to see). So the backlight is (assumed) OK. On cold startup the voltage on the multimeter across the top -ve [CNB801] and bottom +ve [CNB805] back light pins jumps to 84 V, then decays immediately. After about 30 seconds it's down to 30V or so. So I'm thinking the PSU is the culprit (plus you can see the LCD without the backlight, so T-Con and Mainboard are almost certainly OK). On inspection, two SMD resistors on the back of the PSU (near top left stamped '154', part number [RB328] and another stamped '154', part number [RB125] to the left of the big capacitor)seem to show some heat affect, or it could be the factory soldering?? See pics. None of the caps have popped or are raised. I've never changed out SMD parts, but have been soldering basic electronics for 40 years. Does anyone have a circuit diagram/schematic for this PSU 'P.SWP.198HM.1'? Also, I assume I can't test components on the board because they could be affected by other components in series/parallel?
Yep, Also, 8 x 9V batts = 70 volts, not enough to light up the LED's though (had a pretty dodgy connection though).
Cheers and thanks in advance.