[rescue] Sun Voyager: b) repair question

[Walter Belgers]

Hi,

> On 3 Nov 2021, at 18:25, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>> LCD panels especially succumb to the same drying out of electrolytic
>> capacitors that plague the industry.
>> I am 3 for 4 in fixing LCD panels by replacing the obviously blown
>
> I see better than 90% success by recapping (I've probably fixed 20 or 30 -
another one this week).

I disassembled the whole screen to look at the caps. One looked like it could
be the culprit and I exchanged it. (I don't have parts lying around to change
all.) But: it still didn't work. I then (should have started with this) looked
at the backlight and that wasn't working - the LCD itself was. No obvious
defects on the backlight. To find out if this was caused by the video card or
the display, I took the display off my working Voyager and put it on the unit
under repair. Nothing. Put it back onto the system it came from - now it
stopped working there as well!

So it looks like the system with the faulty display is frying the backlight
electronics and I'm left without a working colour Voyager :-(

The one from Frank Carrubba has been sold.