Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Hello, I started fixing push bikes when I was a kid, moving onto motor bikes and then cars. I was very lucky to have friends who were apprenticing mechanics and engineers who shared lots with me. I apprenticed as a carpenter where I worked until my 30's when I got sucked back into full time education, eventually completing a full time Comp Sci degree. With a bit of an overlap of five years for funding. And so I then worked in IT for the next 25+ years. Hardware, software, databases, networking...a bit of a jack of all trades...but of course always because I wanted to. Loved it all, then was luckily enough to take an offer of redundancy which I also love. I spent a lot of intense years helping other people with their problems and now I have more time for mine. Though of course I did fit a lot of my own stuff in during that time as well
The other day, while investigating a motorised central heating valve (I know, don;t shouldn't fix it if it ain't broken, but...) when I managed to trip the main RCD. Anyway after finishing up I came downstairs to watch the news and sat in front of the telly, which had the sound on, and looked up to a blank screen. By the next day, along with youtube, I managed to strip the telly, isolate a blown(?) lcd which was left open and desoldered and bridged it using an old paint stripper heat gun - I was assuming it was a write off. Putting it back together I became somewhat downhearted as the lcd's lit up, before disappearing again within a second. Anyway once all back together it worked, what luck. (I'm guessing the lcd driver was shutdown by the control board because of no load or no signal maybe?) Half the lcds are out, though I'd checked they were all closed, and one bridged in a mega bodge - what a result I thought. And watching it now you'd never know it had any problems.
So, with a sudden interest in TV's, and plenty of time from lockdown, I nabbed a broken TV locally with vertical rainbow lines for another poject. I bought a cheap T-Con board off ebay thinking that was was the problem am waiting for a remote to be delivered from amazon tomorrow - as it's one button has limited functionality. Then I started reading about tab bonding problems...and so found myself here looking for more info. I'm thinking it might be a more in depth problem now but am looking forward to trying some more improvisation, shall we call it.
Looks like a wealth of experience and information and I'm hoping to use it to get it working. Before moving on to the proper work of laying new loft insulation, which arrived today.
Anyway, hello again and am looking forward to reading more of your posts...
Hello, I started fixing push bikes when I was a kid, moving onto motor bikes and then cars. I was very lucky to have friends who were apprenticing mechanics and engineers who shared lots with me. I apprenticed as a carpenter where I worked until my 30's when I got sucked back into full time education, eventually completing a full time Comp Sci degree. With a bit of an overlap of five years for funding. And so I then worked in IT for the next 25+ years. Hardware, software, databases, networking...a bit of a jack of all trades...but of course always because I wanted to. Loved it all, then was luckily enough to take an offer of redundancy which I also love. I spent a lot of intense years helping other people with their problems and now I have more time for mine. Though of course I did fit a lot of my own stuff in during that time as well
The other day, while investigating a motorised central heating valve (I know, don;t shouldn't fix it if it ain't broken, but...) when I managed to trip the main RCD. Anyway after finishing up I came downstairs to watch the news and sat in front of the telly, which had the sound on, and looked up to a blank screen. By the next day, along with youtube, I managed to strip the telly, isolate a blown(?) lcd which was left open and desoldered and bridged it using an old paint stripper heat gun - I was assuming it was a write off. Putting it back together I became somewhat downhearted as the lcd's lit up, before disappearing again within a second. Anyway once all back together it worked, what luck. (I'm guessing the lcd driver was shutdown by the control board because of no load or no signal maybe?) Half the lcds are out, though I'd checked they were all closed, and one bridged in a mega bodge - what a result I thought. And watching it now you'd never know it had any problems.
So, with a sudden interest in TV's, and plenty of time from lockdown, I nabbed a broken TV locally with vertical rainbow lines for another poject. I bought a cheap T-Con board off ebay thinking that was was the problem am waiting for a remote to be delivered from amazon tomorrow - as it's one button has limited functionality. Then I started reading about tab bonding problems...and so found myself here looking for more info. I'm thinking it might be a more in depth problem now but am looking forward to trying some more improvisation, shall we call it.
Looks like a wealth of experience and information and I'm hoping to use it to get it working. Before moving on to the proper work of laying new loft insulation, which arrived today.
Anyway, hello again and am looking forward to reading more of your posts...
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