Greetings folks, new member here!
I have in my daily usage an Acer AL1916 lcd for 5 years already. About 3 years ago, the screen would take 2 hours (no joke) to power up. I crack it open and I smell "maple syrup". I learned from that day a "maple syrup-y" odor is the sign of blown lytics. I was right. All the caps on the lcd's psu were blown. I swapped them for some polymers off Digi-Key. LCD's been strong 3 years.
An associate of mine has a bad LCD which refuses to power up. It's been sitting in his home office for about 3 years. I never got around to messing with it until a week ago. I laughed a little when I saw the brands of the lytics on his lcd's psu.
CapXon and Taicon.......godamnit....lol
Same two brands I had to put up with in my Acer! I laughed yet again when I found them on badcap's s---list. I'm wondering now if I was too hasty in buying polymer caps instead of good lytics. I didn't realise at the time all the homework one can do when choosing caps. Back then I just got out of my electronics course so I was still green?
I need some food for thought. What do you folks think?
I have in my daily usage an Acer AL1916 lcd for 5 years already. About 3 years ago, the screen would take 2 hours (no joke) to power up. I crack it open and I smell "maple syrup". I learned from that day a "maple syrup-y" odor is the sign of blown lytics. I was right. All the caps on the lcd's psu were blown. I swapped them for some polymers off Digi-Key. LCD's been strong 3 years.
An associate of mine has a bad LCD which refuses to power up. It's been sitting in his home office for about 3 years. I never got around to messing with it until a week ago. I laughed a little when I saw the brands of the lytics on his lcd's psu.
CapXon and Taicon.......godamnit....lol
Same two brands I had to put up with in my Acer! I laughed yet again when I found them on badcap's s---list. I'm wondering now if I was too hasty in buying polymer caps instead of good lytics. I didn't realise at the time all the homework one can do when choosing caps. Back then I just got out of my electronics course so I was still green?
I need some food for thought. What do you folks think?
After reading about all the computer psus and capacitor details I guess I'm good. From what I gathered the psu in the lcd doesnt have wildly changing loads like a psu for a pc would.
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