Monoprice touch screen monitor lifetime?

[MichaelHenry]

I hadn't used my 5-year old lathe for a while and powered it down for a couple weeks. I just turned it back on today and the Monoprice touchscreen monitor that I bought with the lathe fades out within a few seconds after power up. Cycling power to the monitor gets it working for a few seconds, just long enough to click a few onscreen buttons before it fades out again. Is there any chance of an affordable fix or should I just buy a new monitor?

To make it worse, someone from Tormach mentioned that they are working on a version of the Pathpilot Operator Console for the lathe, which may be available around the end of the year and I'll probably to replace the monitor before then.

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[Steve303]

To make it worse, someone from Tormach mentioned that they are working on a version of the Pathpilot Operator Console for the lathe, which may be available around the end of the year and I'll probably to replace the monitor before then.

Can't help with the monitor. I heard that Tormach is releasing a new lathe soon as well.

[mountaindew]

I hadn't used my 5-year old lathe for a while and powered it down for a couple weeks. I just turned it back on today and the Monoprice touchscreen monitor that I bought with the lathe fades out within a few seconds after power up. Cycling power to the monitor gets it working for a few seconds, just long enough to click a few onscreen buttons before it fades out again. Is there any chance of an affordable fix or should I just buy a new monitor?

To make it worse, someone from Tormach mentioned that they are working on a version of the Pathpilot Operator Console for the lathe, which may be available around the end of the year and I'll probably to replace the monitor before then.

Rut roe!
I have 2 of them. one about 3 years old and one about 11 months old. Hope I dont have same problem

[MichaelHenry]

Well, I ordered a replacement from Amazon, which arrived today, and the old one started working yesterday so I guess I have a spare. We've had a number of power outages here so I sort of assumed that voltage spikes from one of them had done in the monitor.

[kstrauss]

For what it is worth I purchased a Monoprice 106959 17-Inch Monitor at the end of 2015 and it is still working great. Now I've probably jinxed it! With my probable problems in mind, which monitor did you order? Please let us know if it works with PP.

[Contract_Pilot]

Caps in the PSU... I have fixed a few of them.

[MichaelHenry]

The old monitor is still working fine and it's replacement is in storage awaiying complete failure of the original.

[mountaindew]

The old monitor is still working fine and it's replacement is in storage awaiying complete failure of the original.

They are hard to find currently. Went to buy a 3rd and could not find any for sale.

[MichaelHenry]

They are hard to find currently. Went to buy a 3rd and could not find any for sale.

I got mine on Amazon, but I expect you already checked there.