Comments on: Fix an LCD Monitor http://www.azega.com/fix-an-lcd-monitor/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrik http://www.azega.com/fix-an-lcd-monitor/#comment-1714 Patrik Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:39:43 +0000 http://www.azega.com/?p=223#comment-1714 There's a whole forum dedicated to this problem lol. badcaps.net/forum I've been registered there since 2007. Tried fixing a computer mainboard with bad caps and ended up kinda getting addicted to fixing stuff. Since then, I've fixed countless (well over 100) defective LCD monitors that I've bought dirt cheap on ebay or gotten for free because they were about to end up in the trash. Similar story on LCD TVs, a bunch of computer mainboards and especially powersupplies and even some home audio gear. All the big name manufacturers keep on using crappy caps in their equipment (especially computer monitors and TVs), most notably Samsung with their garbage "Samwha" and "Sam Young" caps and LG with their constant grab bag of junk caps like Su'scon, Capxon, Hermei, etc. :/ This just screams "planned obsolescence" to me.. especially because the majority of electronic devices (like DVR's, monitors, TVs, etc.) seems to die half a year or so after the warranty runs out.. And yes.. if the bad capacitors didn't damage anything down the road, replacing them is usually all that's needed to make the device in question work again. There’s a whole forum dedicated to this problem lol. badcaps.net/forum
I’ve been registered there since 2007. Tried fixing a computer mainboard with bad caps and ended up kinda getting addicted to fixing stuff. Since then, I’ve fixed countless (well over 100) defective LCD monitors that I’ve bought dirt cheap on ebay or gotten for free because they were about to end up in the trash.
Similar story on LCD TVs, a bunch of computer mainboards and especially powersupplies and even some home audio gear.

All the big name manufacturers keep on using crappy caps in their equipment (especially computer monitors and TVs), most notably Samsung with their garbage “Samwha” and “Sam Young” caps and LG with their constant grab bag of junk caps like Su’scon, Capxon, Hermei, etc. :/

This just screams “planned obsolescence” to me.. especially because the majority of electronic devices (like DVR’s, monitors, TVs, etc.) seems to die half a year or so after the warranty runs out..
And yes.. if the bad capacitors didn’t damage anything down the road, replacing them is usually all that’s needed to make the device in question work again.

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