Common issue with a certain time frame of manufacturing. Cheap chinese garbage capacitors were used in a number of monitors and flat panel TV. I had a monitor go out and took it to a TV repair shop. Those are getting rare. Guy knew exactly which capacitor it was without even opening it up. He said the smaller monitors were not cost effective, but the over 21" were a wash to fix. The new ones were inexpensive, but may fail. The same cost for repair as to buy new, he was pretty sure the thing would not need repair for a decade. Not worth repairing TV smaller than 32", as prices were dropping.
clay On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:12 PM, arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: > Both were polarized. This is a solid state monitor. Fixed a friends fairly > new solid state TV which had the same problem. Seems like manufacturers > would use higher quality or heavier duty caps. > Thanks for the reminder. > Gerry....who can happily go to his reward now that he has an Attaboy. > > On 6/1/2014 3:23 PM, Jim Cathey wrote: >>> found a 330 mfd 15 volt capacitor had a slightly rounded top. >> >> Was this one polarized, or non-polarized? The distinction >> is, as they say, tres important. As I recall there is often >> a non-polarized cap in a tube monitor, and you _cannot_ replace >> it with a polarized one. NP's are not usually found in the >> junk box. If you put a polarized 50V one in place of a 15V >> non-polarized one it might survive for awhile, but could choose >> to fail catastrophically. >> >> I'm not saying this is the case, but you should be _sure_ >> before doing any laurel-resting. If both are polarized, >> then you are indeed done, substituting a higher-voltage >> cap is perfectly OK. >> >> (Polarized electrolytics, the far-most-common type, usually >> have a big black stripe identifying the negative lead.) >> >> -- Jim >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
