I am looking into replacing one of my ViewSonics and I tried to find one that had decent caps in it from the factory to avoid doing this cap replacement yet again, and I am deciding that the information is either not available or that the monitor has inferior caps in it. I am just not convinced that any manufacturer has decent power supplies, and I am hoping I am totally wrong.
Can anyone here point me to a manufacturer that I can actually trust to have good capacitors in their monitors right from the start?
Can anyone here point me to a manufacturer that I can actually trust to have good capacitors in their monitors right from the start?
(if he is still reading BCN forums) – I got a new old stock / open box Casing Power MPT-301 PSU on eBay for $4 total. 
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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