Hello, I picked up a broken Monivision CRT monitor, and apparently this particular brand of monitor has a problem with bad capacitors. I'm just wondering how to identify which ones.
1. I'm assuming ones with brown stuff leaking out from them are bad.
2. What about the ones with white stuff leaking out? Is the white stuff actually leaking out, or just some kind of paste or something that was sloppily applied? The primary ones covered in the white paste are the largest capacitors in the set (ack, I knew what they did at one point in time, can't remember anymore though), but there are a few smaller capacitors that are kind of glued together by it, though not in any meaningful way. Just looks gooped along the top of the two.
3. Is it possible other things than capacitors could have problems? There's some coil thing that's covered in the brown stuff, but I suppose that's problem from a blown capacitor spewing its guts.
4. Should I assume that any capacitors that aren't flush with the board are blown? There are quite a few tiny ones that aren't flush, but their leads are so long it doesn't apepar they would have gotten that way from being blown, just that they were put on that way.
5. In order to remove the power boards from the set, I'm going to have to desolder some wires. Most of them are just grounds, but there are a few that appear to be power cables soldered directly to the boards (though I could be wrong and they may just be more grounds), any problems I might run into by desoldering these?
Thanks for any help and advice you guys can give.
1. I'm assuming ones with brown stuff leaking out from them are bad.
2. What about the ones with white stuff leaking out? Is the white stuff actually leaking out, or just some kind of paste or something that was sloppily applied? The primary ones covered in the white paste are the largest capacitors in the set (ack, I knew what they did at one point in time, can't remember anymore though), but there are a few smaller capacitors that are kind of glued together by it, though not in any meaningful way. Just looks gooped along the top of the two.
3. Is it possible other things than capacitors could have problems? There's some coil thing that's covered in the brown stuff, but I suppose that's problem from a blown capacitor spewing its guts.
4. Should I assume that any capacitors that aren't flush with the board are blown? There are quite a few tiny ones that aren't flush, but their leads are so long it doesn't apepar they would have gotten that way from being blown, just that they were put on that way.
5. In order to remove the power boards from the set, I'm going to have to desolder some wires. Most of them are just grounds, but there are a few that appear to be power cables soldered directly to the boards (though I could be wrong and they may just be more grounds), any problems I might run into by desoldering these?
Thanks for any help and advice you guys can give.
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