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Recap guide

Recap the Dell UltraSharp 2001FP monitor

Swollen caps are a known suspect on monitors of this era, but the one 2001FP thread we found turned out to be a bad inverter board instead.

Open the interactive checklist Tick off each capacitor as you replace it. It saves in your browser.

Check first. A recap is not always the answer here, so look at the guides before you order parts.

Which board do I have?

Boards changed during production. These notes come from the linked sources, and many are only partly documented, so check the board in front of you.

  • 2001FP backlight inverter AMBIT T05I031.00 (Low confidence). How to tell: Board marking read from one owner's post. Capacitors: A forum poster found burn spots on this inverter board and fixed the burning smell by replacing the inverter; no capacitor values. Capacitor list differs from other revisions: not known. Source

Where to start

Clues from write-ups and forum threads, not a diagnosis. Low confidence means one thread or one repair; high means several write-ups agree.

  • Burning smell (Low confidence). One 2001FP with a burning smell was suspected of bad caps, but the AMBIT inverter was the real fault, so check the inverter first. Source

Tips, tales and maybes

Found in write-ups and forum threads. These are other people's reports, not tested by us. Check part references and values against your own board.

  • Tip: Check the external supply before the inverter (Medium confidence). A 2001FP that worked about three minutes then blacked out with a burning smell had burn marks on the inverter board, and a used AMBIT T05I031.00 replacement cost about $18 and fixed it. A reply first advised measuring the output of the external power supply to rule it out. Source

Before you start

  • Boards changed during production. Check your board number against the guides before you order parts.
  • A tube and its high-voltage circuit can hold a lethal charge. Do not open the tube, and leave the analog board to a professional.

Guides we used

This page and the interactive bench are built from these. They have the photos and the full detail, so please read them and support their authors.

The capacitor list

We have not checked a capacitor list for this machine yet, so none is shown. Follow the guide above for your board, then add the capacitors in the interactive checklist and it builds a shopping list for you.

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Steps, tools and safety

The steps, the tools in top, middle and budget picks, and the safety list are the same for every machine, so they live on one page: How to recap, step by step.

Values are shown as published in the guides above, and boards changed during production. Check the board in front of you. A recap involves hot tools and, on some machines, dangerous voltages. You do it at your own risk.

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