tperk1
New Member
Kind of new to electronics, but I am currently at Cincinnati State in the Electronics Engineering program (still taking all the pre-requi$ite$). Anyway, I have The above DVD player opened up; before it quit it made a lot of noise and would get real warm. Now that I'm looking at it: around the board with the Transformer on it, it looks like somebody didn't know how to use a hot-glue gun ( or is this some kind of compound to keep the capacitors from not touching the transformer?. either way they made a mess). Also, one of the 10uf capacitors has what looks like maple syrup coming from the bottom of it. Is that what a blown capacitor looks like? Like I said I'm in school but have yet to take an electronics class.All my knowledge is from books, Internet Tutorials, You-Tube, and taking stuff apart and making simple beginner circuits... Thanks