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The capacitor plague was real. I had a 22" monitor that died after four years. Some enterprising person had set up a webshop where you could put in your model number and they'd send you a little bag of capacitors that matched. I paid $15 for what was probably a few cents of capacitors and that monitor lived on for many years, despite my sloppy soldering.

There were a few that were visiting bulging or had leaked, but I replaced all of them just in case.



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