I'm watching a monitor repair video because I love Aegon.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
I sincerely did not know whether anyone would watch it, so I hope you know how much I appreciate that :)
@Arkefal
7 жыл бұрын
Very informative and touching (loved the in memoriam)! Your channel is my absolute favourite, thank you for making such great content, I always look forward to whatever you do - even if it's outside my usual field of interest. Your person, the way you approach whatever object you're examining and the way you treat viewers and people in general, makes me love everything you make, and i would likely watch/listen to you stare into a wall for four hours.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much, Marie. I really do appreciate the kind words :)
@BillyDhillon
4 жыл бұрын
Just a regular joe whose knowledge of electronics is from KZitem and tried to repair something with just the things he had around him. This is EXACTLY the type of video I was looking for. There are plenty of videos with experts and their fancy tools (and they are still needed), but an average person just wanting to learn and vlog his/her expereince? I think this was great! I have a very similar monitor with very simliar skillset as you. After destroying 4 monitors, I finally repaired my 1st one (5ths time a charm right?). I very encourged to keep trying because of your video and I thank you for this post. Keep them coming!
@kylekatayamadaisuke
7 жыл бұрын
you know aegon I have been a fan of your work for about 3-4 years now and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE it. I'm a die hard soulsborne fan as well as you are. you have helped me in tough times and I would love to to thank you very much.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words, Kyle. You've all helped /me/ through some very tough times too, so it definitely goes both ways :)
@kylekatayamadaisuke
7 жыл бұрын
Aegon of Astora thank you very much
@Michela
7 жыл бұрын
It's always worth trying to fix a piece of technology if it breaks. I mean, it doesn't always work, so don't get yourself too down about it (I've saved laptops and ruined cell phones, lmao!) But it's good that you gave it a shot! The world would be less wasteful if we all tried our hands at repair more often.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly, Michela :)
@h4wk10
7 жыл бұрын
This video is the perfect example of how I can come to your channel to hang out, chill and last but not least, actually learn something. :)
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed it :)
@greenfairy7917
7 жыл бұрын
watching as i enjoy watching the videos no matte what it is. Aegon you are awesome.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, friend :)
@Betsujin
7 жыл бұрын
I fucking love effort you put into descriptions of videos every time.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
As far as I'm concerned, long videos need time-stamps in the same way that a book needs a table of contents. It's a lot of extra work, though, so thank you for taking notice!
@_neolucky
7 жыл бұрын
Maaaan that little send off at the end was actually sad (funny too!) and made me think about how much hardware I keep in my life because I just get really attached to it. The oldest being my Commodore 64 monitor, such a beast and the same age as me. Still going strong and been there for everything and even when it inevitably fails, I'll recycle it into a terrarium. I'll pass away long before that monitor does, haha. This was fascinating and I like the POV of someone who's new to it, because I learned quite a lot through your attempts and failures, and that's important! I'd like to see other videos of this process. I am a bit of a cyberpunk/sci-fi nut but I know very little about actual technology. Oh gosh and now it reminded me to clean my poor computer out. Ugh. The dust bunnies.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed it, and I'll definitely look to create more videos like this when the time comes! Also, your comment reminded me of the monitor I had before this one -- an enormous ~24-inch CRT monitor, my favourite feature of which was always the "degauss" button, haha. I never would have opened that one up, though, as the innards of CRTs are potentially hazardous to deal with (so, be careful if you ever find yourself wanting to crack open that C64 monitor!)
@willbess6234
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in the middle of fixing an acer 27" and everything was going well and then I get to the dark twist at 45 minutes.... the hero never dies.... you owe me 45 minutes of my life back
@Aegon_of_Astora
5 жыл бұрын
Did you miss the part where I described this as a repair /fail/?
@WalditoElHuasito
7 жыл бұрын
I find your diction and voice very soothing dude. I never thought I'd feel so calm watching a dude failing to fix a monitor.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you -- I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
@novafajr6375
7 жыл бұрын
This was a joy to watch. Always love your stuff.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly :)
@iamtib
7 жыл бұрын
I loved it ! but.... what are the lore implications ?
@valerian9012
7 жыл бұрын
Aegon's monitor was the true nature of Iosefka
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
It all makes sense now!
@fairfarren38
7 жыл бұрын
Props to you for opening that thing up and at least trying to fix it. Who knows, maybe the knowledge gained from this will prove useful in the future?
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@slicehazard624
7 жыл бұрын
*New Aegon video* What I expected: Dark Souls What I got: Dark Soldering
@M896
5 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to repair this very monitor now. The error you made was trying to get the solder off. Just apply pressure to one side of the capacitor while heating the solder and the leg will exit through the hole once the solder is hot enough. Then push the other way and do the other leg. When putting the replacement in just shorten the legs so there is about 5mm more than you need and the same principle in reverse should work. The capacitors you are tackling are the following: C242 470uf 10v C263 220uf 25v
@M896
5 жыл бұрын
Replaced the C242 and C263 but no change. For info I press the power button, it turns green, but no screen on, then back to amber or off. Now awaiting the transformer from Hong Kong, the board look singed as they do in this and the other AL2223W video on KZitem.
@M896
5 жыл бұрын
Partial success, with the new transformer in the screen powered on to give the Acer splash screen but only very low resolutions would display (DVI port). I tried the VGA port and all ok, I think something beyond my skills has popped DVI wise. At least it's usable as a additional monitor so that'll do, saved from landfill.
@M896
5 жыл бұрын
Bit more info on the transformer: Inverter Transformer SPI 8TC00332 For Acer X221 X221W High voltage coil LCD Part
@falah6398
3 жыл бұрын
At least you tried, Aegon. Just like my father said to me, "try first, the results later."
@valerian9012
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, I was truly moved by that memorial service :'(
@SianaGearz
6 жыл бұрын
I'm on the run at the moment, so i'll just skim. Look at the secondary near the output, both little caps are domed. The huge primary cap never fails, it's completely cold, it has room around it, it just collects duct. The complete secondary is not rated sufficiently thermally and will fail. Well they are rated sufficiently to make it for more than 5 years but not necessarily for 10. On a recent monitor i disassembled with a similar power supply, all the secondary power supply caps went bad, two turned into diodes or had super high leakage, without being domed, others lost a lot of capacity and gained a good bit of ESR. This is slow cooking, the electrolyte got converted to gas or some shit and if it became gas, it likely graaaadually diffused out, as 10 years is a mighty long time, without doming the capacitor or leaving solid residue behind. When those caps were sufficiently decayed, the increased noise load rapidly popped the two little final output caps. If you want to know how good the caps still are, the cheapest tool is an LCR-T4, it's something like $5, and it's actually quite good. But you'll need to master desoldering first. The scaler PCB and the power supply PCB are not at all soldered to each other, there's a plug, you just have to pull the power supply PCB straight away from the power socket, then it comes out fine, there is no bad engineering on that part. The connector is just a right-angled 0.1" 2x4 (? i think) pin connector, nothing special. It can be difficult to pull out at first because they often apply a bit of glue or tape to it. Sometimes both PCBs are levered into the enclosure together, so it can be easier to get them both out like that too, but don't forget to unscrew the VGA/DVI connectors first from the outside. By the way, you have not even damaged the connector permanently, just bent it a bit, it'll go right back with some mildly precise manual adjustment. Shroud being slightly damaged is not really that much of an issue, and the shroud slides around on the pins with some persuasion to get it back into shape. If it happens to break permanently and you don't have a replacement, you can still just remove the connectors and jumper in a bunch of wires. I know i say "just remove" as if it was easy, and it kinda is and it kinda isn't because desoldering is fundamentally a good bit harder than soldering, but it's not brain surgery. You have not even come close to actually ruining the monitor, and i know, ruining things during repair is pretty normal, you simply gave up. How to glue down replacement capacitors: just don't. Jam a piece of rubber under there if you're unhappy with the noise, and that's a big if, or leave a bit of room so they don't buzz against the board. I'll just trust that you won't throw the monitor around after you fix it. If you were to fix it. If you have to glue it down, silicone from home improvement store will stand up fine to power supply temperatures and provides isolation after it's fully cured, but it cannot be allowed to touch traces, legs or pads, so if you were to follow that precaution, you can use that. Well no catastrophe would happen if it did touch, but it does emit some weak acid, and you wouldn't want it to introduce extra corrosion into the already aging substance. The power supply is made by FSP (actually a decent company) and you can get replacements from Aliexpress, just look for monitor power supplies. You may need to reconfigure the jumpers for the particular CCFL backlight on it. You need a power supply that has the same flat high-voltage transformer on it like you can see on the more barren side of your board, those are made for CCFL. But it's better to fix the original power supply, as the jumpers may not be marked. Also i might have an approximate schematic. "things that are right next to the capacitors", the single one on the output side, sitting in a bit of selastic? You mean that resistor? Chisel the selastic away with a toothpick or a plastic scraper before you start desoldering. Set soldering iron a bit hotter. Don't trust the numbers - never trust the numbers, unless you had your soldering station professionally calibrated or if it's an ERSA fixtemp or a Metcal. Set it to where it will barely melt your solder off the roll, and then nudge it 50°C up. In fact nudge it a bit further up when working on wide traces and beefy fills such as on this power supply. Also ditch this solder, best is Sn62Pb36Ag2 with flux core if you can get that, but cheap Sn60Pb38Cu2 with flux core can be OK too, but not too cheap, something with decent reviews, not the cheapest shit direct-from-China. Choose thin solder, 0.5mm is perfect and 0.7mm is still good. Get flux, you can get fake NC-559 for $2 on eBay or Amazon, it's perfectly fine. If you want to try braid for desoldering, and you should, make sure to get the thinnest one you can get, 1mm wide or so - it will be cheaper too, also it needs the iron to run even hotter, and you may need to snip off a bit and holt it in tweezers, and add flux to it. Wide braid just wicks the heat away too quickly, so first thing people notice when they try braid, and they always buy the thickest for some reason, is that they've soldered it to the joint and it's not coming off, and the second thing they notice is that their other hand they're holding the roll with is on fire. Buy a chisel tip for your soldering iron, or a tip selection, for example a 10-tip assortment from Hobbyking - you can't really solder on power supplies with a thin tip, as the heat is drained away by the thick traces faster than it can be supplied, and the thin tip forms a thermal barrier of sorts. Also don't hold the soldering iron like this, make use of the ridge further up the shaft and don't go beyond that, you were pretty close to burning yourself if the temperature was set properly and you were soldering continuously. Hold onto the rubber part, not the plastic part, because that plastic is not a themoplastic, it's a resin part, it can hold on to much higher temperatures than you. Maintain a solid grip on the soldering iron handle, because it's not a pen, if it flies out of your hand (and the cord will eventually tangle or twist and make that very very likely), you will be very unhappy. Soldering irons are beasts that are out to hurt you very very badly if you don't tame them. The capacitors on the logic/scaler board should last a long time, they're not subject to all that high temperatures or high noise. The only warm item on there is the regulator, and it depends whether it will actually harm them. I don't have any interest in watching endless gameplay footage (when i do watch long-form content, it's something like GadgetUK164 or the Defpom Repairs or i could name a dozen others), so i'm not going to subscribe, but if you want to repair something and ping me, i'll try to help. And i'll try to be somewhat less condescending. Oh by the way, i have a vague impression that your soldering iron might have fake temperature control on it? On the fake ones, the LED is basically always on, and the (completely pointlessly graduated) knob tunes the power via a thyristor. On the real ones, they tend to be a bit bulkier if the temperature control is in the handle, and the LED turns on or off depending on whether it's up to temperature or on the heatup cycle. I can solder fine with soldering irons which have a bit more cooling to them and a bit more mass but don't have real control, but something like this, even after 25 years of soldering, i'd probably be between burning it up completely and not being able to get a decent temperature on the joint. Beginners realistically need even better tools than the professionals, at least something like a generic 936.
@Aegon_of_Astora
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for this!
@rawtoenail
7 жыл бұрын
monitor repair ASMR is a real thing now I guess
@boobalew
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video! It gave me the courage to tackle an AL2002W. The parts are now in the trash and I have lots of tools! I think a better term for this type of equipment is, "Throw Away". LOL My new monitor is on the way.
@Masterral
4 жыл бұрын
Although he failed to fix the monitor, he helped me not to make the same mistakes, my munitor's fault is the same as his, 2 faulty capacitors, thanks
@Aegon_of_Astora
4 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear it helped!
@tonythediyer8537
7 жыл бұрын
@Aegon of Astora Being an engineer and watching all of your newbie mistakes was a bit painful, but, you did not give up and you made some very good assumptions about the errors and problems that you encountered. I have this very same monitor and I am in the process of repairing it. Check out my channel for part 1. The connector between the boards that you mangled can be repaired. It looks much worse than it is. The plastic parts are only a place holder for the pins, so if they are damaged, the connector is still salvageable. DM me if you want to attempt to complete the job. I would be very happy to give you some pointers.
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tony, for not only having the patience to watch a newbie like me screw up this repair, but for also offering words of encouragement, and some very helpful advice. I've since disposed of everything but the power supply (which I still plan to use for practicing my soldering), so I will have to turn down your kind offer, but I've pinned your comment here in case someone stumbles upon my video looking for help from someone who has a clue what they're doing. So, if you are one of those people, be sure to check out Tony's repair video here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/w2h3t3d5j4CAfXY
@tonythediyer8537
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your kind words and linking to my video. If you ever decide to try another repair or need technical advice, don't hesitate to message me. I am happy to help if i can.
@diosbabilonico
6 жыл бұрын
Hi, could you fix it? I'm in process too, I'm changing the source capacitors.
@DuckmanCycles
5 ай бұрын
I'm a little late to this show, but I too still have 4 of these monitors from 2006/2007. They all failed not because of caps, but because of the big black inverter transformer on the board, yours has the same brown scorching marks that all mine do in this area.. If you still have this monitor around, you can save it. SPI 8TC0032 is the part number, they are $5-$15. Good luck to you! I'm actually repairing another one of them right now! kzitem.infoZXqJ9ZmhcTA
@edwardoliveira1748
7 жыл бұрын
Is anyone else reminded of a Professor version of Connor Temple (Primeval) by this?
@tol9090
6 жыл бұрын
Need episode 2 : The Capacitors Revenge or the "Dualshock 4 & Xbox360 pad adventures"
@aaronphillips2246
7 жыл бұрын
Aegon, will you be "returning to Yharnam" on the 10th?
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
This is the first I'm hearing of this, but I might try to put a few hours aside on Friday for a livestream (can't make any promises, though).
@princepixel1
7 жыл бұрын
ah halo 3 and cod 4. it was pretty unlikely that people played both, it was usually you liked one and hated the other. so competitive lol
@Aegon_of_Astora
7 жыл бұрын
That was always the sense I got, as well. But, in my case, I played, and enjoyed both. With that said, I was a fan of Halo starting with Halo:CE, and then later played an obscene amount of Halo 2 over Xbox Live. I felt that Halo 3, by contrast, was somewhat underwhelming, which led me to get into Call of Duty 4, which I enjoyed tremendously, though I still played both.
@princepixel1
7 жыл бұрын
I started with halo 3 and went back to 2 way later actually, when it was a lot less populated so naturally I enjoyed 3 a lot more even though i loved them both. never got into CE. entertaining video by the way aegon, nice to watch and listen to while doing homework or something. been watching you since the start of lets talk lore of bloodborne, you're a real cool guy, keep it up!
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