Dave from the EEVblog did a video a few months back that I somehow missed. His new shop is in a building where they seem to through out a ton of stuff. So much that he regularly does some dumpster diving to see what interesting things he can find. This time around he was able to get his hands on two Samsung Syncmaster 204 Monitors. Samsung has a good reputation for quality these days (not so much in years past though) but when Dave cracks into the monitor you can see that they have the cheapest quality caps available. It is really a shame that there are probably 10s of thousands of these monitors in the landfill because someone selected capacitors that were probably reduced the manufacturing price of the monitor by 10 or 15 cents. You can see by the screen shot of the Google search that there are a ton of people searching out problems with this brand of cap. You know there’s a big problem when you have eBay sellers specializing in capacitor repair kits for specific monitor models. I guess on the bright side there are some hobbyists that can get some great monitors working for a few dollars and 10 minutes of work.