oil like substance dripping from television

MrWizard wrote:
unless you have water leaking into the TV
you have a capacitor in the power supply that is leaking
one day it will fail badly with smoke and fire

have the TV repaired or replace it

Sounds like Mr Wizard has never heard of a fuse. Can't remember when I last heard of a solid state flat screen TV bursting into flames. Older CRT TVs had high voltage to the CRT and could be a fire hazard but modern TVs are pretty much low voltage and not very suseptable to combustion.

unless you have water leaking into the TV
you have a capacitor in the power supply that is leaking
one day it will fail badly with smoke and fire

have the TV repaired or replace it

I know it has been awhile since I have posted about this liquid from our Jensen television in our 2012 motorhome but it is back. We brought out motorhome out of our storage shed and guess what it had dripped again and I got a picture of it. After cleaning the drip off of the countertop I noticed that when looking at an angle with the sunshine you can see where the drips have etched spots into our countertop so the drips must have some type of acid in them. The television has worked fine since we posted last September. We camped up til the end of November and just got back from a 3 week trip and used the tv with no problem. Just curious. Like I said before it is definitely coming from the TV, not a lot but still definitely from the TV. I am not sure if the picture will post but hopefully it will.

Arizona Kid wrote:
It's liquid crystal material leaking from a crack in the display panel. It's not dangerous except to your wallet. It's just a matter of time before it fails.

Repeating... There is NO fluid/liquid in a "Liquid Crystal Display". An LCD is made up of multiple layers of protective, electrode, polorizing, and reflective screens, laminated together with a layer of a crystal material that has both solid and liquid properties. Damaged displays sometimes show an internal separation that can appear to be fluid, but is nothing more than delamination. Once again, "There is NO liquid in an LCD."

Please keep us posted on what you find out. I've never heard of such a thing and I'm extremely curious to what it could be.

Most plastic is made from ethylene which is a hydrocarbon.

Maybe heat and current can liquify some of the plastic in a TV? However, I would think you would have a burning smell along with it.

I'm with the crowd that says get it out and inspect closer. At the least, unplug it.

It's liquid crystal material leaking from a crack in the display panel. It's not dangerous except to your wallet. It's just a matter of time before it fails.

If it's always plugged in and runs off house batteries, I'd suspect a power trickle penetrating the tv and causing something to overheat and possibly even melt components creating the "leak." Like the others said, I'd take the back off and give a serious look at least and probably remove it from the RV till I was positive.

The TV is a 32 inch LCD Jensen that is on the wall. There is no leak in the motorhome. It is not AC, it is DC only, it runs off our batteries, just like our Jensen TV that is in the bedroom. The substance that is coming out of it is an oily substance because I wiped the drip that was coming out of it with a paper towel and you can tell it is oil. I also wiped around the back, what I could reach, and it also stained the paper towel, but not much. So far the TV works.