New Members - please post your introductions here

[abraxas1]

Hi, im Rubén, from spain

[RuryGames]

Hello, let me introduce myself, I am a boy of just 17 years old, I started in the world of computers when I was about 14 or 13, I don't remember very well and since then I have liked to repair all kinds of things and one day looking for a schematic on the internet I found this page that has been very helpful and educational for me with all the information that they share and provide and with that it has helped me a lot to improve and to want to learn more about this wonderful job and that day by day we have to study so as not to be left behind in terms of new technologies.

[Nuzhat Ch]

hi

[Baka_Yaga]

Hello everyone, as an electronics starter im looking at opportunities to learn.

[donney]

hi

[juanpedro717]

Hi, happy to join

[Takayuki Kimura]

hello everyone. I'm a beginner in electronic engineering. I want to study.

[aNthraX81]

hey, nice to be here

[peppinofag]

buonasera a tutti i componeti spero di fare del mio meglio per auitare e farmi aiutare. grazie

[14kHz-Shelf]

So I stumbled across the repair tips posted by Tom66 and was able to get a quick high level understanding of Plasma panel technology (my TC-P65VT25 broke). I ordered a new Y-drive (lower) "SD" card on 11 Oct 24 for it based on the stated+implied+inferred knowledge he shared. I'm a MSEE so I had a little existing background to help but that was 1996 :p

I thought I should subscribe to just say thanks (plus it's a pretty rich forum).

Picture of symptom attached.
Be well

[Farhan9575]

Very good website

[Mikereevers]

Hello to evryone

[Farhan9575]

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/welcom...ons-here/page2

[Farhan9575]

Yes I'm Pakistan

[Thiago_bcs]

Olá, sou do Brasil
Trabalho com reparo de placas eletrônicas a 20 anos, sou um aprendiz todos os dias,
Tenho curso de eletrônica básica, industrial e digital.

[hghjhg]

As this is a brand new forum, I thought I'd open up a thread to encourage new members to introduce themselves a bit.. now hey.. let's not get too personal.. ok ?

And if you wouldn't mind to keep this thread "clean" let's try to keep the the chitchat (i.e. even the welcome to the board replies) to a minimum or this thread may get to 100 pages fast

So I'll start things off :

My name is petabyte and I'm a forum junkie. :oops: I've been off the wagon for a number of years and countless times I've tried to stop but it's useless.. I need to feed my learning addiction.. :!:

Now just a bit about me.. I'm a fairly secretive guy in terms of privacy on the net.. especially when the things you write are visable to anyone with a net connection. But I love to share the info and knowledge I have, so that's why I'm here, to share and learn.

my formal education is that of an electronic engineer and I held a field service position with a firm for over 20 years.. that job is gone now along with company car and laptop <cry> oh well..
So needless to say (but i will) I've always tinkered with things.. yes, a hacker.. (too bad that term lost it's orignal meaning) a hardware hacker mostly.. hacking fixes in whatever I find that breaks.. (except for cars, I have friends for that) I got started a little late into the computers, my first box was an ibm pc-xt with a whopping 10meg HD,blazing fast 4.66mhz 8086 processor, 640k mem running dos 3.3.. man was I cool back then.. :roll: nevermind..

so these days, I'm forced to be a software guy as well.. as I fix pc's for friends and that usually means cleaning virus/trojan/adware and reinstalling OS's.. yeah hardware breaks but not that often :cry: so as a result, I keep up on my software knowledge by visting a few security forums.. and trolling around a few hardware forums as well.

now I found this place from a thread at motherboards.org/forums
where I've been hanging out lately.. it's a nice friendly place with some pretty smart people.. mostly, of course, it's about mobo's.. So this person mentioned badcaps.net and I recalled reading articles a year or so ago about the faulty caps and was curious as to what you guys were up to.. and I said "w00t.. they have a forum"..

and so now.. you're stuck with me :P

so what's your story ? come on.. give it up..

[T3K]

Hello. I'm very much an amateur at repairing things but I love sharing information.

[Mark D]

Hi From Mark!
My past experience has been in antique radios but have questions regarding TV repair. I will be posting questions shortly. Thanks for your support and for having me as a member!!

[rosemary]

Hi Everybody! I am a fan of electronics and do small repairs as my hobby. Thanks for the great forum!

[marcosoft360]

Hello,

I am new here. Just wanted to thank everyone who shares and replys to those in need. I am a noob on repairing hardware but am trying. Hopefully with your help I can repair some stuff, and in return I can help in the future.

I am currently working on a Dell XPS 15 9500 and while replacing the bios chip, one of the small components next to it flung of my tweezers. Now, I am looking to see what type of component it is, wether it was a diode, capacitor, or etc...

Would appreciate it if someone can help. Thank you guy's!!