Viewsonic VX2433WM Identify Ceramic Cap

[Chickenfloss]

After a few minutes I have tracked down a CCFL problem to a single ceramic disk cap. It's labeled 5 3kv SEC(picture attached) and I can't find this for the life of me. If anyone could possibly point me in the right direction to a replacement you'd be life savers. Thanks in advance for any help and your time.

[budm]

Re: Viewsonic VX2433WM Identify Ceramic Cap

5pf 3000v is hard to come by, I use 6300v instead.
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/...5EWWkSSTxTE%3d

http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/y...onic%20VX2433/

[smason]

Re: Viewsonic VX2433WM Identify Ceramic Cap

Just curious, how did you determine the problem?

[Chickenfloss]

Re: Viewsonic VX2433WM Identify Ceramic Cap

Just curious, how did you determine the problem?

It belongs to my brother and he had someone replace all the electrolytic caps and when it still didn't work he brought it to me. Upon powering it on there was a loud hissing (sounds like a disk drive trying to read a disk almost) I pointed out the ceramics and found one of the 6 between lights and transformer(3 top, 3 bottom) was the culprit. The screen still works, but no back lights, ccfls work with a separate identical power source. The hissing capacitor "peaks" out and then backlights shut off and hissing ceases. As an educated guess I am assuming this is probably the broken link in the chain.

It may sound as if I may be speaking down to you through the explanation. I just laid out my entire trouble shooting steps so future readers can also possibly benefit. :P

Oh, and thanks budm. Those should work perfectly.

[selldoor]

Re: Viewsonic VX2433WM Identify Ceramic Cap

I pointed out the ceramics and found one of the 6 between lights and transformer(3 top, 3 bottom) was the culprit..

Is that an american technical/jargon term. Like ohmed out?