Re: Two dead Princeton VL1916 monitors

Thanks for the reply PlainBill. I opened the larger of the two power supplies today. The inside of it was encased in tin that I did not try to remove. Several capacitors were visible and were not bulging. Given the low cost of replacing it, I would not even consider trying to repair the power supplies.

When last used, one of the monitors worked just fine and buying a replacement power supply would make sense. That is, unless hooking it up to a bad monitor could make the new power supply fail? If that could happen, buying a replacement...

I have two Princeton VL1916 LCD Monitors. The one on my wife's computer stopped working a couple of years ago. I assumed the power supply was bad. I replaced them both of them with larger 21" monitors, but occasionally used the one in my home office with a laptop computer. When we moved, I put both monitors and power supplies in a box.

Yesterday I decided to figure out which one works. I tried both monitors with both 12V 4.0A power supply blocks. The one that I thought was good is a little larger and not quite as heavy as the other one but neither monitor would power on with...