Update on my Sceptre X9
In my last post about my broken Sceptre X9 I was waiting for the capacitors to arrive. I’ve been busy and have not had a chance to post an update until now. The monitor is back to working 100% of the time. All told it cost me less than $10.00 in parts and about 30 minutes of time.
Of the four capacitors that are on the power supply I only ended up replacing one. There was one that was defiantly bad. The top was popped up and split open and it didn’t smell to great. I thought about replacing the other three with new ones while I had it apart but ended up not wanting to fix things that were not broken (yet).
I’m not sure how long this fix will really last before the other three go bad and I have to do it all over again but at least this time I’ll have the extra capacitors I need on hand.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:10 am
I was wondering if you could divulge where you got your parts. I have the same monitor and it also has the same issues that you have outlined here. I ham having issues locating a (decent priced) 1200uf 10v capacitor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. drop me a line at the above email addy.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
The best deal I found when I was looking for a 1200uf 10v capacitor was on ebay. I ended up getting 36 for $5.44. I really only needed two but it was cheaper for me to buy that than to buy them in singles.
Here is the auction that I got mine from.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120301179904