Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage

Old Elite PW 450v 120uf serving as a primary cap in my old Dell 2407. There is some leakage and corrosion on the positive terminal, seemingly a rather common failure on this model of monitor. As is well-documented on this forum, the terminal will eventually get eaten through and cause a bunch of components to blow up. Fortunately, my monitor was still functional when I found the bad cap. Otherwise, I would have had to replace a LOT more components!






All of the other caps (Elite ES, Elite...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello. TH bunch of numbers here. I'm interested in component level repair but know basically nothing about circuits.

Currently repairing and upgrading a Dell 2407WFP monitor.