Mountain Man Electronic Recycling
Monitor PC Board Assimilation
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Monitor PC Board Assimilation
| Foreword | Monitor Assimilation | Monitor PCB Recovery | Copper Collecting | Halide Lights and HexMosFets | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 |
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Dissassembley of the circuit board is fairly simple. The process of sorting and removing these parts toke about 0.5 hours |
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Estimated Recovery Value
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120 Volt AC recepticle and mini fuse with holder. |
It is common for line cords to be replaced and often involve a messy patch job. Installing one of these recepticles allows easily available line cords to be used. The fuse is a bonus as these are the ones used in most modern equipment and is good to have around the shop | $1.00/2 |
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small capacitors ceramic and poly or tantalums are always useful | Lots of these components are used in Electronic Equipment sometimes quite expensive for good quality. 0.1uF to 0.047 uF are easily obtainable. Tantalums can go to 4uF or larger and are always expensive | $1.00/5 |
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Electrolytic capacitors |
This component is cheap and plentiful. But Larger valued ones with a high working voltage are not so cheap, and could be salvaged for resale. Electrolytics are notorious for getting (leaky) over time. They lose their insulation between layers of aluminum foil. I have some electrolytics that are fine after 20 years so I think this is a salvageable component. | $1.00/2 |
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Misc power IC's in the popular TO220 package style. | Vertical pulse generator for the Flybask transformer and fast recovery diodes and rectifiers are common applications. | $1.00/4 |
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Power Mosfets | This component has mostly replaced the older bipolar power transistors. They come in a multitude of flavors. The Mosfets in a monitor are usually higher voltage and current rated which is a bonus. | $1.50/4 |
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Voltage regulators | A common component used in the Electronic industry, which should be easily saleable. | $1.00/4 |
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Mov and line filters. | These components are usually found in the input section of the 120Vac line to insure one has clean power. They are quite expensive to buy but very seldom fail so I don't know what the market is for this component. | $1.00/6 |
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Relays and thermal overload fuses. | These are a failure item in lots of computer equipment and are expensive to buy. They are usually SPDT OR SPST and have a 12Vdc coil and are very useful in many other electronic assemblies. | $2.00/3 |
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Rheostats . | This component comes in thousands of flavors. Some that are sealed and PC Mount can be quite expensive to buy yet have years of service left in them. | $0.50/2 |
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Switches | This component comes thousands of flavors but are a failure item and there should be a market for this item. | $1.00/4 |
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Resistors | Normal 1/4 watt carbon composition resistors are extremley cheap way below a cent apiece.. But Wattage resistors over a half watt are not so cheap and are usually wire wound as compared to a carbon composition. They are also a high failure item and many a expensive electronic assembley has been saved by the simple replacement of a ten cent part. | $1.50/10 |
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Small transformers, inductors, special IC's, and crystals are example parts that has a specialized market. | These components are plentiful in a monitor but I don't think they have any resale value. The new inductors have a heavy magnetic core to save on copper that I think and might have some value and there is some copper in the transformers. The specialty IC's for TV's and crystals I don't think have any value on the open market. | |
Total Value from components |
$12.50 |
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Total NUmber of components |
46 |
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As can be seen I simply broke off the PC Board where the flyback was situated. A little heat from a soldering iron or a heat gun and the pieces fall off the board. You don't want to apply too much heat as you can melt the components or harm their functionality. IC's can stand a lot of heat as they are basically metal and silicon ..but.. like anything else too much of a good thing will soon smoke that 50 cent piece you are after. Also don't apply to much pressure or you will break a lead and also make the part unusable. If the parts are going to be resold they must have the longest leads possible.