First complete wind vane and anemometer assembly
Anemometer and wind vane assembly.
Potentiometer inside wind vane for readings
I've been having issues for the last year or so with these monitors failing. Seems they all mostly share a common failure mode, had one with a bad LCD driver chip. The others have it where LED blinks blue and they either flicker the backlight or just stay dark with no image. The menu will not show and it will not display anything but the computer detects the monitor. I've found in almost every one of these they have failed because of bad capacitors. Here's the steps I have taken to repair probably 50 of the monitors so far with nearly 100% success. !!WARNING!! Before starting be sure the board is de-energized and the capacitors are discharged. If you are unsure of how to do that please do not attempt this repair or repair at your own risk. The capacitors on the board can hold lethal voltages especially the large one on the bottom left. !! So far I've found it's mostly the 4 caps on the output rails of the transformer on the psu board that are the cause of the f...