I've got a L1800 monitor by HP (D5065A) with some issues. It still works but lamps seem dim and has significant wavy horizontal lines moving verticly on screen. This is an older unit built in 99 and built like a tank. No cost reduction efforts in this baby. It has a backlight timer that says it has 27000 hours on it with 3000 left so I'd guess the lamps are about done for. But if it didn't have the lines would still be useable. I cracked it open and found no bulging or leaked caps just one little 4.7 uf with a red dot on top (don't know if thats a leak or not so I replaced it). Only other thing I found was one of the two inverter transformers seemed to have a clear goo all over the secondary end. Looks like hot melt but softer and spread around like it ran out of the transformer. Is this the winding insulation/potting comming out that would indicate its gone bad? Would a weak or bad transformer make the wavy lines? Didn't seem like it to me. I checked all the caps I could with out removing them for cap value and all seemed ok. I don't have a esr meter so perhaps there is a bad one in there. I've looked a little for replacement transformer but no luck yet. What do you think? Is it worth the effort to try to fix?
Thanks
Mark
Thanks
Mark
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