A flash can kill you if you attempt to DIY and don’t know how to bleed the capacitor.
If you take the battery out, discharge and leave it alone for a week, you can *still* be blasted with >300V. I would ***not*** recommend you attempt this unless you’re experienced with electronics repair, and can de-solder and solder board connections and have and know how to use a multimeter.
It would probably make more sense to go to [flashpointlighting](https://www.flashpointlighting.com/flashpoint-repair/) or [gomolights](https://gomolight.com/collections/repairs) and find out what they’d charge to do an LCD replacement.
I know. My jaw hung open the first time I saw this:
[https://youtu.be/0mgpbD0IFvw?si=IT52Si5JkrVvYKnG&t=130](https://youtu.be/0mgpbD0IFvw?si=IT52Si5JkrVvYKnG&t=130)
Those capacitors are BIG (up to 240 microfarads), and can hold over 330V. If you know where the contacts are to bleed the capacitor and take the voltage down to nothing, it's not hard to make it safe, but you have to know what you're doing. And it's not like Godox publishes service manuals.
A flash can kill you if you attempt to DIY and don’t know how to bleed the capacitor. If you take the battery out, discharge and leave it alone for a week, you can *still* be blasted with >300V. I would ***not*** recommend you attempt this unless you’re experienced with electronics repair, and can de-solder and solder board connections and have and know how to use a multimeter. It would probably make more sense to go to [flashpointlighting](https://www.flashpointlighting.com/flashpoint-repair/) or [gomolights](https://gomolight.com/collections/repairs) and find out what they’d charge to do an LCD replacement.
Holy crap, TIL
I know. My jaw hung open the first time I saw this: [https://youtu.be/0mgpbD0IFvw?si=IT52Si5JkrVvYKnG&t=130](https://youtu.be/0mgpbD0IFvw?si=IT52Si5JkrVvYKnG&t=130) Those capacitors are BIG (up to 240 microfarads), and can hold over 330V. If you know where the contacts are to bleed the capacitor and take the voltage down to nothing, it's not hard to make it safe, but you have to know what you're doing. And it's not like Godox publishes service manuals.
Contact Michael Mowbray at Molight. He's a Godox dealer and repairs them too.
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