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Proceed with caution.

Not to be a worry wart, but a long time ago we got a batch of monitors with a defective board. A capacitor overheated, melted some sort of glue on an adjacent component, which in turn dripped on a power supply component, shorted out and started a fire.

A couple of days later, it happened again… and we ended up getting all hands on deck to find those monitors.

That would probably be electrolyte leaking. There are several reports/stories about bad quality capacitors unintentionally used in production.

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