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I've had to rescue one or two TVs from the owner's gardens as lots of 'smoke' from a failed LOPT or the mains filter capacitor
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I pulled a nice little Ferguson 10" colour set from a skip a couple of years ago, unsurprisingly it worked perfectly when hooked up to a freeview box.
It was playing merrily away for well over an hour, when suddenly plumes of acrid smoke started pouring out of the back.
The set was still working fine, the fault was one of those nasty gold Rifa caps.
I was amazed how much smoke came out!
I quickly unplugged it and took it out in to the garden, the smell lingered for days.
Mark