Another WTF monitor moment

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Found this in a Sanyo EZ20 that I pulled out for service.

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Never saw FOUR of them daisy chained like that.

One time I DID find a cap wired to the board once on a Sanyo, but it was just a single cap wired to the width cap area. Probably a manual width adjustment.
 
Eh, you work with what you have on hand. That's an ugly repair, but would be perfectly functional. I've had to do similar things in a pinch myself.

-Ian
 
I usually see crazy cap-shit like that on vector chassis' - like K6100's or G05-801's in the power section....
 
I recently found a house circuit-breaker wired into where a pig-tail fuse on a 4900 would normally be. About a foot of wire and circuit-breaker hanging loose at the end of it.

And I always love finding those piggy-back fuse clips (two clips soldered back to back) so someone could snap one side down over a blown pigtail fuse and then stick a regular fuse in the topside...
 
Eh, you work with what you have on hand. That's an ugly repair, but would be perfectly functional. I've had to do similar things in a pinch myself.

-Ian

Yep. If it works it works. It could be the difference in getting something fixed right away and it being down a week or more.

I want to say it was mitsubishi car computers that had some real problems with the caps leaking and just tearing everything in them apart. I repaired one once that was held together with jumper wires when it was done. Looked like complete crap but worked on a computer that was near impossible to find at a reasonable price.

I've done similar before to a server power supply to get it up and running as they didn't have redundancy and needed the thing back online asap.
 
And I always love finding those piggy-back fuse clips (two clips soldered back to back) so someone could snap one side down over a blown pigtail fuse and then stick a regular fuse in the topside...

i just pulled one of those off a 4900 i repaired.

Peace
Buffett
 
Eh, you work with what you have on hand. That's an ugly repair, but would be perfectly functional. I've had to do similar things in a pinch myself.

-Ian

Funny thing is that a couple of the caps had leaked and
there was corrosion all over the ends of the caps but the
monitor width was still fine.

JD
 
So for those of us monitor n00bs, what did this little "field upgrade" do?

That is a replacement capacitor - someone didn't have the correct value, so they wired some other ones together to create it. And, as it was obviously too big to fit, they wrapped it in tape and stuck it to the chassis somewhere.

Electrically, it'll work just fine. Just, damn ugly. Also, those are some fairly old caps - 60's era. That's why they are so big.

-Ian
 
yes I do the 4900 was a head scratcher but i got it whipped.

now just this DAMN 7400 mess you sent me.:D

Peace
Buffett
 
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