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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

For all of us who hate Google spying on us.....

Ooh just found this I never knew they existed.


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TorontoBuilder said:
But before giving up I thought, maybe it’s the external monitor. I had it in storage and wife has abused my electronic stuff in storage because she hates it all. But that's another story. So I brought out monitor 2.

Bingo.
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Chances are that your bad monitor has bad electrolytic capacitors in the backlight power supply. It’s an easy fix!

I’m running an embarrassment of riches of mostly Samsung monitors that the office was collecting to recycle, they were happy for me to drag them away, lol! Five bucks worth of caps and they’re good as new.

The quick flicker is one symptom. Shine a light on the screen and see if the lcd part of the display is still working, if so open it up and look for bulged or leaking electrolytic caps on the backlight board. Replace all but the smaller ones, not just the bulged ones and usually you’re back in business.

Check out the forum at badcaps.com, often there’s a thread on your model.

D :cool:
 
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