Yup, Badcaps.net got hit with bad caps.....the irony!! This is the monitor on my office machine, and man I hate working on my own stuff....but I fired it up this morning, and only about half the image was showing, and the part that was showing was dark and illegible... I have a 22" spare that I plugged in to use in the mean time while I decided what to do with this one.... I was temped to just trash it, it is almost 4 years old.....but upon looking, a good spec 24" 16:10 monitor is still $400+ new, and this one has good specs. I hate 16:9 for anything other than a TV, and 16:10 aspect ratio monitors are getting harder and harder to come by, so I decided to crack it open and see what was amuck inside it...
A few pics of it in pieces:
Anyway, I get it apart and start in the PSU.....low & behold, there's 2 bad Capxon 100uF 25v caps in there. The rest of the caps in the PSU were UCC and Rubycon, all appearing ok.
The power supply caps:
I then remove the video processor board which was right next to the power supply, and there was the paydirt..... 8 bad teapo 330uF 16v caps and one more 100uF 25v capxon.
So now time to replace..... The closest thing I had to 330uF 16v 8mm was 330uF 35v 10mm or 470uF 16v 8mm. I opted to use the 470uF 16v 8mm to replace the 330uF caps, as fitment would be better and 470uF in place of 330uF won't cause any problems. The 100uF 25v caps I have in Samxon, the 470uF caps I used Rubycon.
After the new caps:
The junk.....what a pain in my ass capxon and cheap-o-teapo are...
Back in action and looking crisp and brighter than I ever remember!! YAY!!
I bought this monitor new back in late 2006 and used it on my main system my at the house. A month ago when I built my new home system, this one began acting quirky. I sprung for a 27" 16:10 LCD, and this one was moved out to the office computer, I figured I'd use till it died and then get a new one. I just couldn't trash a 24" monitor though, so I fixed it....and it lives on!!
A few pics of it in pieces:
Anyway, I get it apart and start in the PSU.....low & behold, there's 2 bad Capxon 100uF 25v caps in there. The rest of the caps in the PSU were UCC and Rubycon, all appearing ok.
The power supply caps:
I then remove the video processor board which was right next to the power supply, and there was the paydirt..... 8 bad teapo 330uF 16v caps and one more 100uF 25v capxon.
So now time to replace..... The closest thing I had to 330uF 16v 8mm was 330uF 35v 10mm or 470uF 16v 8mm. I opted to use the 470uF 16v 8mm to replace the 330uF caps, as fitment would be better and 470uF in place of 330uF won't cause any problems. The 100uF 25v caps I have in Samxon, the 470uF caps I used Rubycon.
After the new caps:
The junk.....what a pain in my ass capxon and cheap-o-teapo are...
Back in action and looking crisp and brighter than I ever remember!! YAY!!
I bought this monitor new back in late 2006 and used it on my main system my at the house. A month ago when I built my new home system, this one began acting quirky. I sprung for a 27" 16:10 LCD, and this one was moved out to the office computer, I figured I'd use till it died and then get a new one. I just couldn't trash a 24" monitor though, so I fixed it....and it lives on!!
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