Re: Iiyama Prolite E431S Turns off

Hi, I'm the guy who repaired/recapped his E431S in the earlier thread. I realise I'm a little late here but the replacement caps I used were bought from RS Components and had the following part numbers:

[URL=http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=526-1266&x=29&y=16]526-1266[/URL]
[URL=http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=526-1389&x=13&y=17]526-1389[/URL]

7 months later and the...

My flat panel monitor (an Iiyama E431S) recently developed a backlight problem - the light would turn off within a couple of seconds of power on. Cycling the power would bring it back for another couple of seconds so I was pretty sure it was a problem with the inverter and not the CCFL tubes. Strong light showed that the actual display was still working.

I opened up the monitor and found a couple of the capacitors on the power/inverter board had severely bulging tops and bottoms. They are Hermei caps and I know from reading these boards that this is a known bad cap make. For reference...