Jerry G. wrote:
Only their authorized service centre can have the parts. If you gave
the monitor to a TV shop or a general repair place, the manufacture
will not sell them the parts. Your service person most likely tried
to buy the part generically. In this case he would have to buy a
complete reel of this type of part. Some of these parts don't sell
very much, therefore the distributors will not break a reel.

If the monitor is more than about 5 years of age, the manufacture may
say that they don't support it anymore. This is another consideration
to factor in.
t

Thank you for an informative but most unhelpful message. The monitor is
1999 so it is getting on 5 years. Optiquest is a 'generic' ( lower cost,
i.e. oem) viewsonic so it didn't have a five year warranty in the first
place. Therefore it is silly to take it to an 'authorised dealer'. The parts
come three to a package plus shipping($C65/package, $C20+ shipping), but
there must be places out there that bought three and still have two left
over. It is silly to junk fifty pounds of good electronics for 0.1grams of
silicon, don't you think? Howevever with $C80-$C90 just to get ONE stupid
little part, and a history of that part failing about every two years like
clockwork, the monitor isn't worth fixing unless I CAN locate a single part.


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Jerry G.
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"Ian St. John" wrote in message
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I have a monitor with the rather predictable failure of (the
deflection process? ) IC. No schematic but I think someone told me it
was a TDA 2416? At any rate, I want to get it repaired but the shop
can't get the part except in quantity. Anyone familiar with the
monitor ( and knows about this recurrent failure ) that knows where
to get a single item part ( $20-$25) ? I've already paid him for the
repair. He replaced other parts that got it to run for a short while,
but it failed fairly quickly on gettting it back.

Symptoms are, no picture at all(completely blank), but steady green
light(video signal detected).

Not worth putting a lot of money into, but I'd like to get it working.