Re: Double-check my replacement guesses?


Wow. I amazed the monitor is that old. I know that there was probably a greater-than-usual lag between maunfacturing and sale because it seemed like one of those weird lots that discount retailers sometimes get, but still.
You're correct; the power supply is mounted in the rear of the monitor case. It's a fairly tight fit, and all passively cooled. Because of the fit, case size was the final constraint that put me down towards the caps I chose. My basic method in narrowing down my choices was to use the Digikey site and filter...

So I'm here because when my monitor died, I vaguely remembered reading something on the internets about bad caps in TVs--my memory was that a couple of cheap caps failing was causing people to throw their expensive TVs away and buy new. It occurred to me that the same was probably true for LCD monitors, as they're basically the same thing.

The monitor in question is an off-brand el-cheapo special from Micro Center. It's 21", and it was only $99 two or three years ago; I'm probably lucky it worked as long as it did. Economically, it's not really worth fixing (and it's already...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi -

As I expect is the case with a lot of people here, I'm trying my first cap repair. Software guy by trade, but I'm starting to find the actual nuts and bolts of simple electronics interesting. If I don't blow anything up while trying my fix, I'll probably start spending some time here learning things.