Excuse me if this beast has been reported previously.
Nine bulging and leaking caps. Tricky to release the frame facia but otherwise a regular task. I reported it here:
http://forums.techguy.org/members/35...1#vmessage3271
as CompulsiveFiddle.
Disturbing to read that so many TFT TVs are failing after ~1yr due to bad caps. Not always easy to access the panels and repairs can be extremely time consuming; probably well beyond the skills of casual diy-ers.
Nine bulging and leaking caps. Tricky to release the frame facia but otherwise a regular task. I reported it here:
http://forums.techguy.org/members/35...1#vmessage3271
as CompulsiveFiddle.
Disturbing to read that so many TFT TVs are failing after ~1yr due to bad caps. Not always easy to access the panels and repairs can be extremely time consuming; probably well beyond the skills of casual diy-ers.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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