Re: No power on a Acer AL1916

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I decided to just gently remove u406 and afterwards was able to get the monitor to turn on and work just fine. So for now the monitor is working.
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Are you are talking about u406? shorting the two pins did not allow the LED to turn on, and I still get no results from the power button.

Actually I did read the whole thread. [U]Twice[/U]. But as I mentioned in my first post to this forum yesterday I am new to this troubleshooting of electronic boards, so I posted in an...

Re: No power on a Acer AL1916



Technian error indeed. from post to post i get 160V dc. Thanks. I guess I continue with the testing.


I was posting from my mobile phone which wouldn't let me attach the pictures.


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Re: No power on a Acer AL1916

I have this same monitor. When I take a reading from the large capacitor it comes back a 65 volts dc.
does that mean a capacitor is bad or something before the cap?
I am new to soldering and may request someone to assist me with soldering later so I would like to know exactly what I need to have done.
thanks for all the help.