My garage door opener quit halfway through a job last month

I was loading up for a siding repair in Lethbridge and the opener just stopped halfway up. Took me 20 minutes to find the manual release and get it down without wrecking my truck. Turned out the capacitor on the motor board was bulging, cost me $18 at an electrical supply shop to fix. Has anyone else dealt with these cheap Chinese boards failing after a few years?

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victor_carter513mo ago

Maybe it's just me but those little capacitors seem to be the first thing to go on anything electronic nowadays. Had a similar thing happen with my TV last year, cost like $10 to fix but it took me an hour of Googling to figure out which one was bad.

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willow2443mo ago

Oh man, totally feel you on that. Capacitors are like the weak link in everything now. I had a power supply die on my desktop last year, same thing - a bulging cap. $8 fix, but I spent two hours with a multimeter because they all looked fine to me. It's frustrating when you know the fix is simple but finding the bad part takes forever. Glad you got your TV sorted though. These little things are a pain but at least they're cheap.

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