23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
11:55 p.m.
On Monday 23 February 2009 05:24:32 am Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Rod Smallwood wrote:
I was given a flatscreen a while back and after opening it up I saw a whole
*bunch* of them that looked like that...
I'm undecided yet whether I'm going to just change the ones that are bulging
out the top like that or swap them *all*, which is going to end up being
rather more extensive.
I suspect that lack of a surge protector was probably a good diagnosis for
this user. :-)
I have another one from the same source that uses an external power supply
that's dead. A replacement is at hand, so I'll probably "fix" that one
first.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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M Dakin
Hi
Sounds like capacitors.
Alhough it's a switcher any high voltage/high value capacitors in the
PSU might well need reforming.
Quite often you will see caps with a pair if incised lines on top. This
makes them go pop instead of bang.
You would not want to see a PSU where they have gone bang.
This is the only popped electrolytic I have ever seen, in damn near 30
years of fiddling with electronic stuff:
http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/blowncap.jpg
Gordon 