Hi everybody, reposting this because I'm stupid and didn't pay attention. Apologies.
Last year my Samsung 216BW died on me. The typical, it seems. It would turn off after a few seconds, over and over. Eventually after a few minutes of 'warming it up' it would stay on. I can't recall 100% how long it was good for or exactly how often I had to do this. Eventually it didnt turn on at all. I took a bunch of pictures back in the day, but they are not the best quality or angle or anything. I didnt know exactly what I was doing and didnt look into getting help on the net back then.
Here is a link to a photo album that contains the pictures. I didnt resize them because I didnt want them to be utterly useless; you might need the larger sizes just to be able to glean anything useful from them.
I have since purchased a repair kit from http://lcdalternatives.com/Samsung-2...aspx?sid=19447, and gone to work trying to repair the capacitors.
I at first replaced only the 3 originally puffy capacitors, but when that didnt work I replaced all of them. In the process I messed up. The last (duuuh) capacitor I had to remove came off with the little connection ring that connects it to the PCB... I did a little googling and found out that this can be rectified by attaching the lead to to next component in line. Here is where I found that advice, although I believe I also saw it elsewhere online as well.
I think I did an ok job on most of the capacitors, but at the end after I messed up the connection, I ran out of wick and was having real trouble getting my iron to consistently melt the solder properly... I kind of gave up on the last one, at least until I get some more patience and maybe some more desolder wick. I swear there is no wiggle to the 'bridge' or the shitty connections around it that you'll see in the last picture, and i tried to coax the solder into the hole around the lead as much as possible.
Basically, the monitor isn't turning on, although at this point I'm not surprised. Am I totally screwed? I don't yet have a voltmeter, or other equipment like that, although at this point I'm willing to go pick one up (for cheap preferrably), as well as anything else I might have to do, like potentially rebuy capacitors.
Thank you for any help you may have, I hope I've kept this in line with what you like in a first post. Try not to laugh too hard at my soldering, first timer
Last year my Samsung 216BW died on me. The typical, it seems. It would turn off after a few seconds, over and over. Eventually after a few minutes of 'warming it up' it would stay on. I can't recall 100% how long it was good for or exactly how often I had to do this. Eventually it didnt turn on at all. I took a bunch of pictures back in the day, but they are not the best quality or angle or anything. I didnt know exactly what I was doing and didnt look into getting help on the net back then.
Here is a link to a photo album that contains the pictures. I didnt resize them because I didnt want them to be utterly useless; you might need the larger sizes just to be able to glean anything useful from them.
I have since purchased a repair kit from http://lcdalternatives.com/Samsung-2...aspx?sid=19447, and gone to work trying to repair the capacitors.
I at first replaced only the 3 originally puffy capacitors, but when that didnt work I replaced all of them. In the process I messed up. The last (duuuh) capacitor I had to remove came off with the little connection ring that connects it to the PCB... I did a little googling and found out that this can be rectified by attaching the lead to to next component in line. Here is where I found that advice, although I believe I also saw it elsewhere online as well.
I think I did an ok job on most of the capacitors, but at the end after I messed up the connection, I ran out of wick and was having real trouble getting my iron to consistently melt the solder properly... I kind of gave up on the last one, at least until I get some more patience and maybe some more desolder wick. I swear there is no wiggle to the 'bridge' or the shitty connections around it that you'll see in the last picture, and i tried to coax the solder into the hole around the lead as much as possible.
Basically, the monitor isn't turning on, although at this point I'm not surprised. Am I totally screwed? I don't yet have a voltmeter, or other equipment like that, although at this point I'm willing to go pick one up (for cheap preferrably), as well as anything else I might have to do, like potentially rebuy capacitors.
Thank you for any help you may have, I hope I've kept this in line with what you like in a first post. Try not to laugh too hard at my soldering, first timer
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