So I had a free day and figured that I would do a couple cap kits, never worked on monitors before but researched everything and it seemed pretty straight forward so my adventure began!
First was a WGk7193
Monitor worked And picture was clear except everything was pretty blue. Cap kit went pretty good although took a lot longer then i expected. I could not figure how to replace C55 the power filter even after removing a ton of solder so I left the original in. But overall was impressed with doing my first cap kit feeling like I'm a little more then just a collector now.
Put the monitor back together and nothing, no high voltage to the screen. Checked everything was hooked up and tried again and again no high voltage. Checked the fuse and it was good but then I saw smoke coming from R103 (looks like ceramic tower) next to the power filter so I shut it down until I could ask opinions here. I should add that the fly back was not replaced but I have it back ordered even though I saw no damage on the original.
So then I attempted a WGK7500
This monitor was working but would get blurry as it heated up. So I began a cap kit on it, wow a lot more caps vs the K7000. Kept the original fly back because I didn't order a replacement
I found that it had a lot of lifted traces but I did what I could and checked continuity on each suspect trace as I did them and everything seemed ok.
Hooked it all back up and again no high voltage to the screen. But saw R720 (or maybe it's 728) glowing red.
My brain is fried after spending 8hrs pulling, capping, reinstalling them and ending up feeling like a failure. I am sitting down to rest my mind before beginning trying to figure out how to test b+ and hots or anything else I have never done. But before I feel like an idiot trying to figure how to do all that does anyone have a suggestion of where I screwed up?
First was a WGk7193
Monitor worked And picture was clear except everything was pretty blue. Cap kit went pretty good although took a lot longer then i expected. I could not figure how to replace C55 the power filter even after removing a ton of solder so I left the original in. But overall was impressed with doing my first cap kit feeling like I'm a little more then just a collector now.
Put the monitor back together and nothing, no high voltage to the screen. Checked everything was hooked up and tried again and again no high voltage. Checked the fuse and it was good but then I saw smoke coming from R103 (looks like ceramic tower) next to the power filter so I shut it down until I could ask opinions here. I should add that the fly back was not replaced but I have it back ordered even though I saw no damage on the original.
So then I attempted a WGK7500
This monitor was working but would get blurry as it heated up. So I began a cap kit on it, wow a lot more caps vs the K7000. Kept the original fly back because I didn't order a replacement
I found that it had a lot of lifted traces but I did what I could and checked continuity on each suspect trace as I did them and everything seemed ok.
Hooked it all back up and again no high voltage to the screen. But saw R720 (or maybe it's 728) glowing red.
My brain is fried after spending 8hrs pulling, capping, reinstalling them and ending up feeling like a failure. I am sitting down to rest my mind before beginning trying to figure out how to test b+ and hots or anything else I have never done. But before I feel like an idiot trying to figure how to do all that does anyone have a suggestion of where I screwed up?

