Actively Cooling a Monitor

My grandfather got a brand spanking new iMac relatively recently and he had given me his old LCD Monitor. The only thing wrong with it was that it would just turn off after a period of time. It wasn’t always the same amount of time and after you power cycled it, it would come back but the picture would flicker.

I expected to be able to just crack it open, spot the problem and move on - that wasn’t the case. Nothing appeared to be wrong. I finally figured that I would follow what my first hunch was, which was thermal issues. As a temporary fix, I duct taped a computer fan to the top of the display and used the tape to force it to intake from the monitor only.

It hasn’t even flickered all day. So I guess it was thermal issues. I might make a more permanent fix in the next few days. I just have to open the display again and locate a source of 5-12 volts that will be able to provide the current I need (a measly 0.12 amps).

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