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Unless you know the voltage of the circuit use whats there or if you have one thats above rated voltage of the board use it.
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In essence there is no problem with 16v caps there, as small computer monitors use 12v for the inverter. However, only the 5v rail for the logic is regulated in these supplies, and with no load (in standby) the 12v will get up to 14v, sometimes a bit higher.
Polymer caps are less tolerant to overvoltage than regular lytics. And their typical failure mode is short, so if your monitor suddenly stops working, you'll know why.
Originally posted by PeteS in CA
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Don't use capacitors rated for lower voltages on monitor power supplies, especially for the part of the power supply designed for fluorescent bulbs.
The voltage on lots of old monitors is usually around 12v, some use bigger voltages, some have fairly unregulated power supply (for example they may go up to around 15v-18v and then stabilize in a few seconds at something like 14v, so it's not safe to use 16v rated capacitors)
On motherboards, especially at the VRM circuit near the cpu socket, it's often possible to replace electrolytic capacitors with polymer capacitors rated for lower voltages because you actually know processors work with <1v .. 1.2v. Motherboard manufacturers used multiple electrolytic capacitors in parallel with higher than required capacitance and rated for 6.3v or 10v in order to have a much lower ESR (bigger capacitors often equals lower esr)
For this reason, it's possible to use 2.5v or 4v rated polymer capacitors of slightly lower capacitance in the VRM - you know the output voltages are lower than 2.5... 4v always.
If you don't know the supposed output, what voltage should be on that capacitor, stick with the capacitance and votage ratings of the old capacitor.
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