#badcaps

[bigzaps]

The next couple of posts will be disasters and eye popping damage pictures. This is a infamous Rifa arc suppression cap that was just about to catch on fire before the customer brought it to me because the turntable wouldn't shut off. Very common in Dual turntables. #badcaps #turntable #audiorepairs (at Spokane, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1Ru74DDpC/?igshid=zmzmrew5h4k3

[eldricktobin]

TV !!fun!!

So I have a 37lg60 and I wager like many of them it's getting issues. Well it HAS issues, but as it hasn't flat out died yet it's still in the getting phase. Couldn't tell you which capacitors were fried if you asked. all I could JOKINGLY say would be "The ones inside the housing.' I've looked. Not. A. Clue. Nothing leaps out as dead. None of them even look bulged ;.; So I've recently started borrowing a handme down (it's running on a differnet PC... as the second screen even)... one sec looking up the type again. *ipanema plays* W2452T Now I've been waiting for it to show up an issue. ANY ISSUE. Because I heard it had troubles, but I saw nothing. i'VE BEEN KINDA WISHING NEGATIVE THINGS in the general direction of it for a little while now. If there's only an issue with the DVI port that's a different kettle of fish and all that. It's finally sprouted an issue. I think it too has a capacitor problem... but it's the weirdest I've seen so far... and I thought green lines was weird since the internet didn't wanna talk about it. "What's the issue?" "Oh and why is it weird?" Glad you asked. The bottom of the screen brightens and then turns white -if you give it some time. Then cleans itself up. Yes. It's flaky and then it's fine. That's the odd part. Now weak caps (to be all truncationist like the internet enjoys) do odd things like this. Lines on the screen or a few minutes on startup? You might be abl;e to wait them out. Even my scarlet (the 37lg60) gets better if I wait... but it doesn't cycle BACK to horrible. This starts dimmer... that's not the right word. The glare starts out mild. Yes! mild. anyway... it starts out kinda mild. You might think you're imagining it. then in a bit it gets stronger. eventually it's almost opague... and throttles up the white to near completely opague -you can still kinda make out what's supposed to be there. Then it's fine. And the cycle repeats. (well it might just be clear->nearly solid->solid but I turned it off to let it rest.) I'm wondering if this is JUST a 'bad caps' issue or what... can't put it on the badcaps forum just yet... soon soon. but I figured I'd mumble and muse so maybe I can try to NOT ramble there. "So what's the LG's" They are both LG "Right. what's wrong with the other one exactly that you can't just grab some caps and go?" The Scarlet so far has well... it's always had weak caps. It was made during the heavy water fiasco. (no I don't care the real name or wanna mention the potential sabotage... so it's a fiasco). Thus it has the Sam? Caps. The weak ones. In like the last year I've had to set it to a dead channel to let it warm up -and it HATES some colors with a passion... not just rapid switches between colors. Colors like Sepia, and some background patterns. Since about august -when I heard a pop but found nothing wrong inside ;.;- it has been I'll say stage 2 pissed. Stage 0 is nothing wrong but you don't know it could have a problem. Stage 0 would be the manufacturer KNOWING there's an issue but not putting out a recall. So you don't know either. So what's stage 1? It starts being a tad flaky, but that's it. Waiting for it to warm up let's say. Having a line or 3 that go away but show up every so often. Thus with these stagesI'll say for a good long while it was slowly incrementing from stage 1 to stage 2, but around august it was stage 2 and never gonna back down. I wager stage 3 is constant lines obscuring 75% of tyhe screen forever and never gonna back down or warm up out of it. 4 should be the SOLID green and magenta that at BEST I can tell in the perfect distortion that windows IS running because of the icons. Stage 5 will likely be 'audio only' which is akin to the models that just have a white light in the corner. Nothing else just a white light. Me I'll have this softer black screen and that'll be it. Maybe it'll try to 'reboot' the renderer but really it could chime a billion times and never actually make it up. It sometimes scares the muffins out of me by starting up in any of the later stages. Then I power cycle and it sometimes picks a different one. I think the record is 15 times on the power button. "Why would you hit it that many times bro?!?" Oh. I have a dell W3000. Great -if lower res- screen that you can't turn off or you'll make 15 attempts to start it up look like a picnic. I hate power flickers. Gets caught 80% of the time. "So you're used to being a hardware test pilot :/" Yep. Life Sucks. Hardware Reflects This. I consider myself a hardware guy. "Ah so what's the resistence of this capacitor. I've been" Stop! I don't know the innards. "But you said..." I don't create hardware. I just wiggle things. "*scoff* Then you aren't a hardware guy." Yeah you're probably right. I sure can't make sense of the circuit diagram I have for my scarlet... else I'd just KNOW what caps I need ;.; *made an edit to showcase that I'm not using the W2452T directly*