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Walked into an office in Portland and counted 14 broken monitors on one floor
Was doing a consult for a mid-size law firm last Tuesday and noticed a whole pile of Dell monitors stacked in a corner with bad capacitors - probably 2 years of failed hardware nobody bothered to fix. Has anyone here ever bulk-repaired those common capacitor failures instead of just replacing the whole unit?
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the_angela20d ago
Friend tried re-capping a dozen Dells and only got three working again, the rest were toast.
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That part about "only got three working again" really made me stop and think. I used to be all about trying to fix everything, like I'd get a weird sense of pride from re-capping monitors even if it took hours. But after reading stories like this and trying it myself a couple times, I totally changed my mind. It's just not worth the headache when you factor in your time and the chance of them failing again a few months later. Better to just chunk the bad ones and move on with your life.
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