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[Redbird]

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Hi, just signed up, electrical experience is rather wide ranging, started with vacuum tubes in school, built a couple of my own systems for the house. I'm an industrial electrical tech. Hoping to find some information on repairing flat screen monitor power supplies. This site came highly recommended.

[myvilli]

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Hi,

Jeremy from France there.
Not new in troubleshooting, but never really troubleshoot anything in electronic.
I am used to service windturbine (my job), and motorbikes my hobby.

Hope I could be helped, and help back!

Regards,
JV

[mrdeeds]

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Hi My name is Buddy I like to learn how to fix things myself. I don't know a better place to start learning than here. Thank you for letting me be a member of this great forum.

[rburt07]

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Hello all, my name is Jimmy. I went to a radio/TV repair school after I graduated from High School. I ran my own TV shop for about ten years. I also repaired TV's for a fellow that had a full time job at General Telephone, now Verizon. I worked at the phone compay for 4 years then quit and got a better job working for Southwestern Bell, now AT&T as a communication tech. I worked for Bell for 28 years in Dallas then retired in the late 90's.

Although I worked at the phone company I continued the TV repair part time till the mid 80's. It was about that time that Sony and Panasonic came out with their first $40K+ investment, 20" flat panel solid-state led prototype TV's. I now have flat panel TV's in most rooms of my house which 3 are sonys, a 32 and two are 42's, 2 smaller 20" sanyo's and one fantastic 55" Panasonic VT30 in the living room. I use two DVR receivers and feed them using long hdmi cables and two dist amps from monoprice and mediabridge.

Back to me. I had my TV shop in Garland, Texas which is just outside of Dallas. I closed it due to economics at the time in the late 60's.

After retiring from AT&T in '99 we moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico where the sun shines most everyday. It's near white sands memorial park which most have heard of.

I haven't seen any UFO's yet, but who knows.

[incognegro]

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Hi all, I'm Aaron from Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

I used to work as a car mechanic while I went to school for Electrical Engineering in New Orleans and then Hurricane Katrina sent me here to FWB. Now I work for Ricoh Corporation fixing copiers and printers, been doing it for almost 10 years now.

My side job is, you guessed it, fixing computers and TV's.

[jrwhites]

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Hello my Name is Rich and I have had some fun lately fixing plazma TV's. I thought this forum would be a good resources. I'll also admit I am stumped with a 50" LG plazma with a light fuzy picture. LOL.

[rell87]

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Hi! I'm from the Philippines and I joined here because i would like to know how electronic hardware works as well as how to repair computers at board level.

[glicos]

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Hi, im gene, from philippines, the pearl of the orient. I am currently working as a field application engineer but with previous experience in electronic design repair and troubleshooting. Hope i will be welcome here...and be a good help for the community...

[photobug]

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In trying to restore two older computers, my computer guy told me MOBO is bad and need a new one because of bad caps. So in my research I found this site. Since I like to dabble in electronics and soldering, I figured I'd try to revive it with a cap transplant. Worse case scenario I waist some money and throw away perfectly good caps, best case scenario I revive my mobo and become better at soldering.

[delboydev]

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hello people

[Matande]

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Hello my name is Matt Anderson. I am a 26 year old Bowling Green State University graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice. I live in the rolling hills of Amish Country in the middle of Ohio.

[bakura105]

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welcome feel free to ask any question or just have fun...

Hey, I'm Sean in Jacksonville Florida. I have a plasma TV that stopped working. I found the thermister rt1s on the PSU fried. Do you know the specs for this component? The PSU is the BN96-00249a. I cant find the parts list for this board anywhere... the thermistor has sck 206 on it.

Thanks,
Sean

[sassafras]

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Hey guys,

I'm a physician by training, but tinkerer at heart. Came here because of Tom's great tutorial on troubleshooting plasma TVs and looking around I think I can safely say I plan to stick around.

S

[hycojoe]

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Guys, I am a new member who is not a teckie. I wish i understood more of what most of you do or are good at, but i probably know enough to be dangerous!
I am here becasue I am loking for help with a Samsung Monitor that blipped. I went through the July 2011 posts about the same problem i had with my 245bw monitor and i went inside and tested the capicitors shown, but they are reading the normal prescribed ohmage. now i would like to know more about fixing this thing. hard to throw this thing away when it may only be a small problem.
HycoJoe

[nulla nulla]

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G'day

This is a late post as I joined back in January, looking for info on repairing an old IBM monitor. As expected, it turned out to be a failed capacitor and this site was a great help locating the suspect.

I've been pulling computers apart since 1989 (I have always pulled my toys apart since I was a kid. Originally to see what makes them work and then as I got older, to see if I could fix them myself).

No doubt I will post in other threads when I next need some info or I see an enquiry that I can assist with.

Cheers for now.

nulla

[6of1]

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Hello! Well I have recently acquired 2 broken TV's and hope to fix them (I can solder a little and that's about it). Maybe with the help of this group I can get at least one of them operational.

[shortchange]

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Bob speaking with his fingers.
Short day.
To find a short or multiple shorts.
Say the 3.3v supply has 4 ohms.
attach your ohm meter to the 3.3 volt line.
And using chilling spray or a heat gun.
The component that causes a change in the ohm is or are most likely at fault.

[Zedsdead]

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Hi i'm new here. I'm a 22yo prospective electronics junkie. I love to learn about anything. Love electronics because it's knowledge that you can use just about anywhere and any time.

[t6jack]

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Hello my name is Tim, I followed a link here off of google as I was looking for some info on repairing a flat panel. I liked what I saw so I registered so I could participate.

[jescovi]

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I am a new member looking for technical help on electronic repairs. I am a network "engineer" (past ccie) by day.