Samsung arranges in case about leaky capacitors in tv’s

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Samsung has a settlement in a class action lawsuit, on October 17, 2011, brought about tv’s with leaking capacitors. The company will reimburse the costs of repair incurred up to an amount of $ 300 per tv.

Owners of such tv’s will receive an amount of up to $ 150 paid if they can prove that they are for 2 march 2012 costs made for diagnosis of the problem or for repair of the tv. The maximum is doubled to $ 300 if the pcb had to be replaced. Also as the original owner, the tv no longer holds, but the problem for the date of march 2, 2012 at Samsung Electronics, has been raised, he gets $ 300 will be reimbursed.

The settlement covers tv’s that between January 2006 and december 31, 2008 sold in the United States, and that any defects revealed as a result of leaking capacitors on the pcb’s. The problems occurred frequently just after the expiration of the warranty, so the repairs themselves had to be paid. In total, about 1 percent of the tvs that Samsung in that period in the United States sold, said Vivian Peters, pr head at Samsung Electronics Benelux.

It’s going to include the lcd tv series LN-T******/power fram kbit, LN**A******XZA and LNS4052DX, nine plasma tvs, as the PN42A410C1DXZA and PN50A450P1DXZA, and twelve-dlp-tv-models. About these models is on the forums in the course of time a large number of complaints have appeared, ranging from stripes in the picture, and beeps to a non-working tv. These models are known to have not sold in the Netherlands.

In the past, are more likely to have problems with defective capacitors have been reported. It was in moederbordfabrikant Abit sued for the application of capacitors of poor quality, mostly from China, while Dell knowingly and wilfully such, cheaper caps in computers are processed.