Hello, some time ago my iiyama X486S 19" LCD monitor backlight stopped working completely. I can see the picture when I shine a flashlight on it. I don't know if this is a right place to ask, but I feel there might be some very good help around here.
I did a lot of short circuit troubleshooting on the inverter board only to find out nothing I checked is shorted - that includes diodes, mosfets, other transistors, random resistors and so on.
Now I have bought / did previously have this equipment:
1) two cheap DMMs (ohms, amps, voltage, diodes, continutiy)
2) 20MHZ analog TESLA oscilloscope
3) a good LCR meter (to test capacitors)
4) soldering iron
The backlight does not come on at all, never. I have even measured voltage coming directly to CCFLs when the monitor is ON (even accepting the fact that this could ruin my cheapo multimeter / whole monitor) and there are 0 volts AC and 0 volts DC measuring any possible combination of the 4 inverter output pins.
That possibly ruled out bad CCFLs, which leaves the the fault to be on the inverter board itself.
The board is visually undamaged, unburnt, detailed images are in the attachment. The PSU part number is 715G1236-3-AS ver:A
I have just recently downloaded all required datasheets and service manuals for monitors using the same or similar power supply, which are also in attachment. Such a monitor is TOSHIBA LCD-AD174TW.
There are service instructions to troubleshoot the powerboard itself (section 8.2.3 POWER/INVERTER BOARD). At page 41 titled "2.) W / LED , No Backlight" there are steps to check if there is no backlight. I do not know what "W/LED" means but I proceeded.
Procedure is as follows:
1) Check C928(+) = 12V (NG Change F902)
- CHECK (F902 also OK)
2) Check ON/OFF signal (NG Check Main board)
- don't know how to do this
3) Check U201 pin5=6V (NG Change Q205 or Q207)
- on my board it's IC201, datasheet is in IC201.pdf, and pin5 VAROUT_L is only 4.80V, not 6. This is measured using my DMM and my oscilloscope.
4) Check the pin1 of U201 have saw tooth wave (NG Change U201/R217/R215)
- pin1 is ground according to datasheet, so this does not make a lot of sense to me. There are 0 volts, no ripple, no saw tooth wave. I measured R217 / R215 and they came out low, R217 has code 6192 (so 61900 ohms) but measured only 58200 ohms. R215 has code 431 but measured only 362 ohms. This result is the same using my two cheapo DMMs.
I don't know whether this is OK or not, whether my DMMs are faulty or the resistors are. I measured in circuit. Should I desolder the resistors to measure them properly? Is IC201 dead?
Any advice on how to troubleshoot this board would be greatly appreciated. Attachment was too big, so it is downloadable at
http://adina.sk/MONITOR.zipThanks!