The company I work for purchased about 40 LG 1710s back in 2005 or so.
Most of them are still in service. I recycled 2 or 3 (before I got back into repairing things) and I have repaired maybe 2, usually bloated Samxon GFs
. I've been wondering lately what state the caps are in in the ones that are still in service. Most are plugged in 24/7 and many are powered on that much.
Got one last week that has intermittent power up issues. Took it apart at work and the Samxon GFs are all visibly flat as pancakes.
Brought the power/inverter board home and recapped it, and for fun measured the GFs I pulled out. Most were a tad low in uf and just a bit high in ESR. a 1000 @ 16 would be about 800 uf and .6 ESR.
One 680@25 was quite bad. 19uf and 61ohms ESR. Looks fine physically.
Will take it back and re-assemble tomorrow.
P.S. Please excuse the crappy cellphone photos. I hardly ever use my phone as a camera.
Most of them are still in service. I recycled 2 or 3 (before I got back into repairing things) and I have repaired maybe 2, usually bloated Samxon GFs
. I've been wondering lately what state the caps are in in the ones that are still in service. Most are plugged in 24/7 and many are powered on that much.
Got one last week that has intermittent power up issues. Took it apart at work and the Samxon GFs are all visibly flat as pancakes.
Brought the power/inverter board home and recapped it, and for fun measured the GFs I pulled out. Most were a tad low in uf and just a bit high in ESR. a 1000 @ 16 would be about 800 uf and .6 ESR.
One 680@25 was quite bad. 19uf and 61ohms ESR. Looks fine physically.
Will take it back and re-assemble tomorrow.
P.S. Please excuse the crappy cellphone photos. I hardly ever use my phone as a camera.
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