Thank you for the info. Now, I took the second picture to find out if I can just replace the inductor willy-nilly (no offense to Willy Nelson or any named Nilly
). If I take a similar inductor from a different circuit board can I put it on there?
Chances are I will not be using the OEM inverter on the iMac anyway. I have an after market inverter coming today sometime. But, It would be nice to know what is causing the issue in the first place. And even though I am replacing the inverter with after market it would be nice to use the software based brightness control. Otherwise I will just put a small pot protruding out of the back of the LCD assy.
I assume by the pics that there are no value marking on these itty bitty inductors. Not like it would matter though since the bad one is mostly melted
.
Thanks,
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