Re: emachines e19t6w inverter powersupply help

I fixed this “shutdown after a few seconds” problem on a Viewsonic VA1930 by replacing the electrolytic caps on the power board and re-soldering the power transformer joints (SPW-055). A startup buzzy noise was coming from the transformer, and I found that if it was torqued slightly the noise would stop leading me to the cold solder joints which must have been caused due to their large posts that were not heated up enough during construction. Who knows, perhaps the bad joint’s extra resistance caused a cap to overheat...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello. I'm thrilled that I bumbled onto this board. Electronics and computers has been my hobby all my life but in the past 10 years I have been getting paid! It became a second career for me after 20 years as a chiropractor (still practicing part time). Anyway, I'm always getting dead monitors and repairing them, in fact the twin 20"ers in front of me I repaired and there is one apart on my workbench being tested. The one in test was fixed with a suggestion from this forum! So naturally I felt obligated to join and post...