Viewsonic monitors

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

with a 22 inch model

Decent products and support might be why they're one of the few old monitor makers still in business.

Does anyone have good or bad experience with their monitors with built- in ATSC tuners?

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

with a 22 inch model

My 2 year old 19" LG Flatron started blinking on "wake up" a couple months ago. Warranty - 3 Yr. on monitor itself, 1 year on back light. I contacted the local LG repair depot and was told that they don't repair, only replace monitors and gave me the contact info. RMA was declined since they diagnosed the problem to be the power adapter and gave me a phone # to give them my shipping address. The package arrived three days later, only to turn out to be a power cord (billed out at $17.30) After several e-mails and phone calls, I got P****d off and started a new request for RMA and, once again was requested to phone with shipping information. This time I almost needed a water cooled telephone, but I got results. Sure enough, when the power adapter arrived, I plugged it in and its working fine now, over a month later (due to some idiot part picker/shipping clerk) Gerry :-)} London, Canada

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

with a 22 inch model

I had a similar thing happen. Received a new monitor with probably less than a year to go on the warranty. I'd gotten mine through a local dealer and worked everything through them. No having to ship, etc.

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

replaced with a 22 inch model

a year to go

Same thing with Acer LCD monitor.

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recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

replaced with a 22 inch model

year to go

I've had several flatscreens fail just off warranty. Problem was traced down to a couple electrolytic caps that had swelled. Nobody local had them in stock so I ebayed 10 of each out of HongKong of all places - japanese caps - for less than I could have bought them out of the states without the shipping. A couple minutes with the soldering iron and all 3 back in service - with spare parts for 2 more.

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Hmmmm. Going on 9 years on my Proview 19" CRT monitor. On, on standby

24/7. Best color depth and definition I've ever seen in a monitor. Have 16 years on my Viewsonic 15" CRT monitor at work, same use. Have 2 Magnavox 27" CRT TeeWees, circa 1993, both perfect. 2-3 years old? TSK,TSK,TSK. Why are you lauding Viewsonic for selling you junk electronics-just because they warranty it? That's a given. JR Dweller in the cellar

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

with a 22 inch model

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:09:20 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada quickly quoth:

That's handy to know, clare. What brand were they, or were they generic Canuckistani?

I have a Viewsonic just out of warranty and, other than the single bright green pixel which was out when it was brand new, it's hanging in there nicely.

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Hmm ... IIRC, the cause of the swelling capacitors was some manufacturer (Chinese, I think) buying a stolen formula for electrolyte from a Japanese source. But the stolen formula had a problem, and capacitors made with that formula tend to swell and die within a couple of years. It strikes me that your Hong Kong ones may well be ones made with the stolen formula, and likely to die just like the originals did.

Good luck, DoN.

Abit ended up with a series of motherboards that had this problem. I know - I have one, and the fix was replacing the caps with good high quality hardware.

recently. Yeah,

called Viewsonic and

with a 22 inch model

Good to know!

There really are still reputable companies.

My list:

Dillon (reloading kit) "No bullshit" warranty. Top grades, superb. Savage Arms: excellent response to warranty issues Swift optics: completely satisfactory response to warranty problem Dell Computers: outstanding. Ruger: (as told by a friend) excellent Taurus: (as told by a friend) tough shit, suckah Kimber: (as told by a dealer) see Taurus

This time I almost needed a water cooled

That's funny

On Aug 13, 6:29=A0am, snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote: =2E..

OTOH, when you retire you have time to keep older repairable stuff running and you can visit the appliance parts stores during business hours. My microwave is from the '70's, the washing machine from the

60's and the lawnmower from the 50's.

Jim Wilkins

Interesting dates of manufacture Jim - a slower, more gentle period when things were DESIGNED to be serviced, assembled by people so that another person could take it to pieces, and where there were multiple sources of generic spares.....at least, for the 3 examples you quote.

Andrew VK3BFA.

Acers all. AL1711 - all bought at the same time, failed within 3 weeks. 3 of 6 still woking 2 months later - but expected to fail shortly

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no the ones from HongKong are japanese built Sanyo units.

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We all drive things in this direction by buying lowest price. Engineers don't purposely design consumer goods to be unrepairable; they strive (are driven) for lowest possible factory cost. The result is that replacement is usually more economical than repair.

Back in the early 50's, a (repairable) television set cost $300 to $500. The first microwave oven (Amana Radarange) cost 700 of those dollars. Based on 1950 CPI of 24.1 and 2007 CPI of 215, the TV would cost a couple of thousand of today's dollars and no wonder only very wealthy folks had microwave ovens! Today we can buy a TV or a microwave for well under $100.

(...)

Which would have been ~$11.21 in 1950!

--Winston

According to

the Japanese brands Panasonic, Rubycon, Sanyo, and Nichicon are all good. That article lists about 25 companies (apparently mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) known to have produced bad caps. Also see its links to some 2003 and 2006 IEEE Spectrum articles about the problem.

-jiw