Apex AD-1010w DVD Player - Repaired

[Tesla]

This Apex DVD player had bad caps. in the power supply.

It would only turn on 1 in 5 times, and even then, you really had to jack-around with the power button to get it to come on. Even when it did power-up, the power light was flashing instead of solid. It still wouldn't play a DVD (because some of the required voltages were still missing from the PS output header).

See attached pics and docs. The pics were taken after the 4 leaking caps were removed. They were not bulging, just leaking a little underneath... pretty hard to see actually. I went ahead and replaced all the caps on the Low-voltage side of the transformer (for a total of 8). They were some asian off-brand.

It works great now. Maybe this will help somebody one day.

[Longbow]

Re: Apex AD-1010w DVD Player - Repaired

Good going. This psu board has plenty of room and easy to work on. Be sure to get off all the goop, because it can stay there and continue to eat traces, corrode leads and so on. Have a look at your main pc board for regulators and filters that might need some attention, too.

[Tesla]

Re: Apex AD-1010w DVD Player - Repaired

Yes, I did. As you can see from the pics, it's a single-sided board, so it was easy to clean up.

The main logic board (not pictured) was very small and IIRC, all SMT parts. It looked fine.

I can't seem to edit my original post, so to be clear... The original bad caps. were an asian off-brand. I replaced with new Nichicons.