When I turn on my television (which is only about a year old) it seems to act like it wants to turn off, and makes a clicking noise. Some days it doesn’t do this. Other days it will do this for 30 minutes and stop. Any reason why it might do this?

Hi, without knowing too much about the model etc, my best guess as an ex television engineer would be the clicking noise that you are describing i would say in the televisions power supply (inside the set) They normally have what is called a switch mode power supply which unlike the name has no mechanical switches. It relies on various electrical components. If it is intermittent as you say my guess would be a dry solder joint or maybe a capacitor either are not dear but sometimes locating the faulty part can take time.

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