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Greetings from Houston, TX! I'm Kenny. My career has been divided between high-tech computers and communications, followed by advertising and marketing. I know, right?

Anyway, I am a long-time HAM Radio enthusiast and experimenter (call sign: NZ5I). My electronics background is rather spotty in troubleshooting and repair over many years, mostly out of necessity.

Over the recent past, I have been equipping myself with the proper tools to deal with SMT, which has dramatically expanded my reach and fun. I find it highly satisfying to extend the useful life of electronics in this day and age of engineered obsolescence.

Most who know me would agree that I'm a bit stubborn and have a hard time accepting defeat on some projects. However, I'm beginning to accept that sometimes things simply aren't reparable (especially if a direct lightning strike is involved!).

Gruss,

Kenny

[gpt]

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Greetings! My name is Dmitry. I'm from Ukraine. The main direction of my activity is data recovery. In addition to data recovery, I am engaged in laptop repair and firmware.

[souvis]

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Hello. Dan from Wales, UK. Consumer electronics tech, 40 + years time served. Also licensed Radio Amateur though not very active on air. Prefer tinkering with WW2 boat anchors in my downtime than swearing at smd junk in my up. Started with the Ladybird book of making a transistor radio at age 11 and only reluctantly looked forward. Prior to that my main interest in electronics was dismantling radios I'd now like intact in order to hurl Triodes at the garden wall whilst imagining myself storming Gold beach. I'd prefer that tech development had stopped around 1979, though of course I wouldn't be writing this if it had.

[tommy97]

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Hello to everyone, im Tom from London, mainly i work on macbooks & consoles. However, i can help also with laptops and mobile phones. Owner of the small shop in London, i've started my journey with electronics 3 years ago.

[FirebirdTA01]

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Hi everyone, I'm Ernie from St. Louis in the US. I'm an electronics repair tech and mostly work on phones at work but do just about everything else along with them. I'm a microsoldering tech and am currently struggling to find a problem on a PS5 motherboard, so I found you folks here. Hopefully this is just the beginning of my entry into a wonderful community, looking forward to interacting with everybody.

[Marcooson]

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Hello everyone, I'm from France and I'm here to learn as much as I can :p

[Golvbalk]

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Hi everyone, PC building and repair for hobby, and just to help others so that they can enjoy their computers. Not a specialist its all for fun and knowledge.

[Dancauac]

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Hello There! Daniel from São Paulo Brazil!

[Dancauac]

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Hello Everybody! Daniel from Brazil! Working in this area fo 10 years and sometime ago I started to study the microeletronic part od the business. Hard for me who likes nature, outdoor sports and beaches. The micro world of eletronicos fascinates me too, soo I keep going!

[SiG.]

I salute you TopCat and I'm glad to know you and all the forum members.

A WELCOME to everyone that joins in!!

Peta, ofcourse some advertising would always be helpful to making this a success.... This forum has existed since October 6th 2003, online the first time at about 9:00PM CST. Being a couple days old, atleast there's traffic...

I don't know if this forum will be a huge success or not, I created it out of requests from viewers, so we'll see how many actually join... If it takes off, I'll be tickled pink!! If it flops, I'll simply remove it.

A little about me?!?

HMMM I'll give a little info... I've been in the electronics field since 1991, with experience ranging from TV/VCR repair all the way to industrial electronics for a very large and well known manufacturer. I started in computers in 1994, just for a change and something I thought would be more challenging.... First of all, in the computer field, I AM NOT a number cruncher (programmer) YUK!!!!! I'm a hardware/network guy... I can install any OS, repair and make it work, but sitting and typing code is more boring than watching flies mate!! So I stick to hardware!! I get the 'thrill' from coming up with cures for problems, creative and USEFUL mods (this DOES NOT include neon lights and corny batman windows in my cases)...

Before the VP6 was around, Abit's poster child was the BP6, dual celeron board... Being one of the pioneers to run dual Coppermines in my BP6 was quite a thrill... Then came the VP6, and the dreaded crap cap problem... Thus was born PROJECT:VP6, which is over a year old... It can be viewed at www.kabalsrealm.com/systems/projects/vp6/. That single article ultimately led to badcaps.net and this forum... I was shocked at the publicity it drew...

A little inside info?!?
Well, age?! I'll say late 20's and that's close enough... I enjoy dealing with the computers, all of this is just a hobby these days, so if it did flop, it's no loss... I'm also a car nut... (300ZX!!!)... I also enjoy flying immencely, although, no I don't own an airplane... YET!!! Maybe if I sell off all this computer junk, I could afford one... HEH I own 3 domain names, and host sites for a few friends on this array... Of course they pay me nothing... HMMM Ohh well... Money isn't all... That's about all I think needs to be revealed... If there's something you really need to know about me, ask... The answer all depends on the question you asked...

Anyhow,
Peta, and everyone else that has joined, Welcome to the forums!! Bring some friends with ya!! :roll:

I salute you TopCat and i'm glad for chance to know you and all this forum members.
I am an marine electrical engineer and a hobbyst electronics repair in my free time. These days i'm struggling with an old washing machine PLC board and that's how I come up on this forum looking for documentation about the problem.
Maybe I will find useful information or maybe someday I will be able to help with something in the problems discussed here.
Have a good day to everyone and I hope we hear us with functional results.

[celtkid11]

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Hi! I'm Bobby, I've been working in AV for 12 years and in my new position I'm doing more component level repair, plus I'm always tinkering and repairing stuff at home (my guitar amps, recording gear, decks, etc) so I figured this would be a useful forum to be a part of.
Thanks!!

[Xtremin]

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Hello

[james007torres24]

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my name is James. i have moderate knowledge of electronics and good and problem solving. i have 0 years of formal education. I'm self tough for the most park. i first stared working on electronics about 20 years ago. I current repair all types of electrons. I am here because everyone always needs some help right?

[kaino147]

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Hi guys, I'm new here, I know very little about computer hardwares, a problem I'm having led me here and so far reading comments has amde me realise I'm in the right track, I believe I can follow procedures given to me to get my issues fixed as I have average knowledge of how hardwares work. Glad to be here and I'm hoping to get my problem fixed here......thanks to everyone

[Alien51]

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Hi
my name is Mike, my team is professionally repairing IT Hardware. We also refurbish a lot with BIOS Passwords. Here is so much helpful information about that.
Thanks a lot for your posts, rescued some Notebooks already.

[pedrolane]

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Hi all

I followed this board since some months, stunned by the amount of information it brings.

I'm engineer in computer science, with some (little) skills in electronics. I have to (and like to) repair all sort of things, from fridges to roiling shutter motors ...

I hope to find here some help with some broken TV set. I will try to help others as well, as I'm pretty experience at computer networking.

[bennyj]

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Hi, I'm Benny from Modena Italy and I repair computers for passion

[GiveMeAnthony]

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Hello everyone. Sometimes I repair electronic bits under the scope, mostly things like my Super Nintendo and my 2015 Macbook Pro, which still runs well because I put Arch Linux on it.

[scottsman76]

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Hi, My name is Gavin from South Africa.
I have a I.T. repair shop but also repair Game Consoles and TV's.
I have some experience for doing it for a few years but not trained, all self taught.

[CondimentKing]

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Hello, I'm a help desk tech at a public school and I'm hoping to locate schematics for the Chromebooks we own.