Random Posts
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Silence your Guitar Amp – Variable Voltage Regulator
Guitarists often find themselves in love with their amps, playing an electric guitar a lot of the time what’s making up your sound is found […]
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Pedal Progression: 1 Range Master
In this series I revisit and re-build some of my favorite guitar pedals. Here a treble booster is given some of the best vintage parts […]
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Headphone repair
When headphones wear out it’s not unusual to effect the soft fabric parts only, so can eb saved by replacement, or you can prevent failure […]
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 2 Headshell
Head, strange word for this but is what it’s called, a head being the amplifier, presumably sitting on the ‘body’ represented by the stacks of […]
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Restomod Car: 1 Engine
With an old, regular, car like this, it is usually abandoned for a crusher, or parts hunter, however restoring and rebuilding it better than stock […]
Saving monitors: leaky capacitors
A common issue with electronics are when small insignificant components fail. Fixes then usually only depend on 1) Knowledge/problem solving and 2) 1-2 $/€/£ in replacements.
In this case a very common issue, leaky electrolytic capacitors. While most parts in a computer monitor should be fine for a couple decades these little parts can start to leak their electrolytic fluid or dry up and thus loose their capacitance. As their job is to store electricity, this usually lead to wierd issues. Happily Its usually very easy to diagnose. Here the tops of the parts was bulging, a clear indication.
Switching them out and no more issues and these old screens can continue living a happy life another ten or so years.
Don’t discard what can be easily fixed and given another life, there are always someone you know for whom such a thing is an upgrade. Even if you have decided to change out the old, consider giving your old things to charity or help someone out, no need to increase the landfill. (and fixing what’s broken can be a good in itself)