Samsung Hitron Black TV keeps blowing fuses

[grundigman]

I'm looking for help about repairing my Samsung TV I found recently. When I opened it up, I saw that it had a blown fuse, but when I replaced it, it blew yet again. So I realised that the fuse blowing was just a symptom, and not the problem.

Along with the help of someone more knowledgeable about CRTs, we discovered that the 4-legged rectifier was being shorted to each other in the circuit (the two ~ lines), but not outside of it, meaning that my problem was further back. When I powered it on without this rectifier in place, the fuse didn't blow, so the Thermistor isn't the problem either.

The only other multiple legged component that was acting 'weird' with shorting (again, I don't really know how these should really act, I am trying to learn) was this FMLG02 with a larger heatsink.

IMAGES of reference: https://imgur.com/a/q1K7zcp

2 of the vertical (? many legged ?) transistor's legs short to one of the other legs, but most likely they are already connected in the circuit, and surely out problem is not this far ahead in our PCB, is it? It couldn't just fry the fuse backwards, right?

I hope I was informative enough in this post. I want to repair this TV badly, as the image quality is most likely excellent, but I'm not confident that I can do it without major help. My only testing equipment is a 230V wall socket and a multimeter. It would be a real shame if this TV had to be thrown out.

[grundigman]

UPDATE: Schematic for my chassis number has been found : https://www.manualslib.com/manual/15...ob.html#manual

[Electronic M]

Bridge Rectifier: they convert ac to pulses DC....they can short if a DC load they are driving is shorted. May want to check the big electrolytic connected to it's output.

[grundigman]

I tried it with a known good cap, and no luck.