White Bars - FIXED

[scottyfryer]

Ok i found a guy in Toronto that Replaced all the caps on my chassis for $125.  The monitor looks great now cept i think i plugged a wire into the wrong spot cuz the picture is upside down, but none the less the picture looks great now.  Thanks for all your help.

[Lutus]

So all the monitors we have fixed on this forum from the urban myth known as a "cap kit" are just pure luck?

Sounds like someone is upset that their customer has started to think for themselves. 

How can he sleep at night charging around $100 or more to fix $10 worth of caps in thirty minutes.

What a whiny little %$#@


Oh, and what does he suggest to replace.......  (drum roll)............. a CAPACITOR! 

[eccs19]

So all the monitors we have fixed on this forum from the urban myth known as a "cap kit" are just pure luck?

Sounds like someone is upset that their customer has started to think for themselves. 

How can he sleep at night charging around $100 or more to fix $10 worth of caps in thirty minutes.

What a whiny little %$#@


Oh, and what does he suggest to replace.......  (drum roll)............. a CAPACITOR! 

I was thinking the same thing.  I think that his thoughts were probably that why should one replace all the caps, when it's only one that causing the trouble. That way when one of the others burn out, you can bring it back, and he'll charge another chunk of money for replacing the next burnt out one.  I think if someones handy enough to do it themselves, then spend the $10 on the cap kit, and perhaps another $30 for the soldering iron, and your off to the races, but if ones not comfortable doing it, then one should expect to pay $100-150 to have it done. It's a high price, but if your in business, your in business to make money.

[scottyfryer]

Bare in mind thats 125 Canadian, plus he replaced all the Capacitors which he hunted down from 2 stores in Downtown toronto.  But i paid for it out of my business account as a "Monitor Repair" so it'll look like a computer monitor repair.  Plus they don't make cap kits for my monitor.  I tried all the sources listed here and the company that makes the monitor went out of business in january of this year.  Considering Ken Layton said i was screwed i think all the hassle it would have taken myself to do this was worth the $125 CDN.

[Lutus]

Yeah, scottyfryer, we are definently not dissing on you at all.  In fact, I think I kinda like you.   

We were shocked at what the guy emailed you.  Saying that we on this forum (apparently morons) fix too many things with a cap kit and we don't know what we are doing.  Then he turns right around and says...  replace X capacitor and it should work.  In fact his last sentence says  "most of the models have this cap in the screen control section that is a common failure."


A common failure.  What do you  know.   

[grantspain]

i just want to pipe in here and say something,the reason cap kits are used is because 99 percent of the time it will be only one cap faulty BUT it would probably take 10 times longer to find the specific cap as opposed to doing a full cap kit which we all know costs very little,there are many monitor techs that laugh at the cap kit thing but to me it seems an absolutely logical thing to do for the price and the time

[Lutus]

Like someone else stated earlier.  If you are in the business and just replace the one capacitor to fix it, eventually another will go out and they will come back and spend another 100 bucks on it.

So sneaky.  How does that guy sleep at night?   

[Kevin Mullins]

i just want to pipe in here and say something,the reason cap kits are used is because 99 percent of the time it will be only one cap faulty BUT it would probably take 10 times longer to find the specific cap as opposed to doing a full cap kit which we all know costs very little,there are many monitor techs that laugh at the cap kit thing but to me it seems an absolutely logical thing to do for the price and the time

Just to add that typically all the caps are the same age and have the same amount use....therefore another will certainly die soon after if you replace just the "one" that caused original problem.
(hence also why you see return visits to the repair tech) 

Glad to hear you have it working properly now scottyfryer.