14 Oct
2012
14 Oct
'12
3:30 p.m.
On 14/10/12 5:53 PM, TeoZ wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at
neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Dead LCD monitor? - replace $2 worth of caps - Re: Skipware
level, late 2012
Only a couple of the dumpster 10 were in that category, and even those
are great for text use.
There were several Samsungs, which are the best of the batch by far. Two
of which (225bw model) were discarded by my boss (who replaced with new
Samsungs). I kept one for my wife's desk and a neighbour scored the
other (I got lots of good unwanted parts from him in return - enough to
build the aforementioned P4 gaming rig).
--Toby
On 10/14/2012 03:24 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
If it's old, it's bad, and if it's not new, it's old.
Well-trained sheeple, to the utter delight of sales-slime everywhere.
-Dave
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There are plenty of old LCD screens not worth fixing because they sucked > Words
fail to describe the wrongness of this wastage. Absent the caps,
> these things certainly have a 10+ year lifespan...
> My current workplace still uses four of the fixups.
MY workplace objects to repairs. They make a lot of bogus excuses, but
the real rweason is, "If you fix it, then we don't get a NEW one!"
I will never understand the obsession with "new". when new (bad contrast and colors, slow refresh for
gaming, lower
resolution). You can get decent new monitors for $100, so I can see your
work not wanting you to waste time sourcing parts and trying to fix the
old ones (they are paying you to do something more important and
profitable I assume).
I would have just taken the broken monitors home and used them for
something after I fixed them (I have a 17" LCD that needed a couple new
caps and a couple $1 parts to fix a few years ago). LCDs make great
workbench monitors since they take up little space.