New Members - please post your introductions here

[avia581]

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Hello All. My name is Andrew, from Pennsylvania. I am an Electrician by trade, not very familiar with electronics (DC Voltage) though. I have a few little projects that I wanted to attempt to learn a few things about and I thought this would be a good place to start with some reading. Thank you.

[abdelm]

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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..

hey guys I'm new

[thallyn]

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Hi all!

Found the forum looking at specifications for modifying an ATX computer power supply into a benchtop set with a variable voltage regulator. I found the information provided to be the most comprehensive on the net so far, and as I'm just getting started into electronics it induced me to join.

My background...these days I primarily stick to server and network administration but I've done just about everything in the realm of computers. I cut my teeth on an old Commodore 16 with a tape drive and a black and white TV my folks retired.

Cheers!

[markhambly]

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Hi, I'm new on the site, an engineering graduate (of 20 years ago!) who is trying to mend his LCD TV, which I've already replaced so see it as a chance to have a bit of a tinker and possible actually fix it.

[tellytubby]

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Hi,

I'm 44 and have been fixing stuff for most of life - having learnt the hard way as a child that noone else in my family had any chance of even taking things apart without ruining them!

Nowadays I fix mainly underground inspection camera systems, but over the years I have fixed:- audio amps - valve and solid state, TVs, satellite receivers, VTRs and VCRs, camcorders and digital cameras, various CCTV recorders and video processors, ecu units for cars, dog walkers (yes really A trainer used them for his greyhounds...) hydraulic and electromechanical gate operators various types of catering equipment and white goods. Basically if I can understand it I'll give it a go.

Sad to say after all this time I still get a kick out of fixing something I've never seen before.

[aeopav]

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Hello Everyone,

I'm Mark. I have subscribed to see if I can glean some information off this board to fix my television. I have some experience with electronic repair and a lot of experience with aircraft electrical repair. I've been an avionics technician for 20 years.

Looking forward to it.

[itamarco]

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hi everyone marco

[40lxj]

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Hello, my name is Marc and have been an electronic hobbyist since the 70's.
I find this site very educational!. thanks

[co15say]

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hello to all. im joining hoping to learn how to fix a few things i have around the house that were very nice at one time. this is pretty new to me so i have a lot to learn

[Zragnarok]

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Hi there, my name is Yann and i'm from Quebec, Canada. I found the website while searching for a way to fix my plasma TV, a Samsung FPT 5084... I know my problem is on the power supply because I have a fuse always blowing. At first, I replaced the fuse and my TV was back to normal. But after a second time I changed the fuse, I searched for another problem. I replaced a few caps (only the one that I saw were bad) but I still have the same problem. I even bought a power supply from BUYQUAL and when I put it in, I get a different problem (TV turn on and is fine for 2 min and then turn off and I get the blinking red LED in front). So here I am, looking for some help :/ I'll ask my questions here but if it's not the right thread, please let me know and i'll post them in the right one.

1. I should have asked before buying but anyone know if BUYQUAL is a good company ? I think I have the answer because the board didn't look new and a few solder didn't look very well made.

2. Can there be another reason beside the bad cap for the fuse on my power supply to always blow ? (Fuse at FE801 on the BN44-00175A board). I was thinking of a resistor but the one I tested looked good. Maybe a diode but I don't have the tool to test it (well I have a multimeter).

3. I want to recap the whole board. Is there a place where I could find a list of all the parts I need instead of looking at all of them on the board and list them by myself ?

I will take pics and post them if you want.

Thanks a lot

[frankie31]

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Hi everybody,

I am a french guy who is trying to fix some electronic stuffs.

I discovered your forum last week and I found it was very interesting technically speaking !

I hope you will accept to answer my easy questions

Thank you very much and see you soon !

[upgrade216]

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Hi Everyone!
I have used this site a few times in the past and decided to sign up!
You folks have a lot of useful tips and I hope I'll be able to contribute.

[DSH]

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Hi Badcaps,

I have used this site for quite a while, perhaps 2 years or so, and have found it to be really useful. Just today I decided to register so I have full access to all the good stuff.

I'm a Mechanical Engineer and live is Sydney. One of my hobbies is to keep good stuff out of the rubbish dump. I have 3 fast and quiet computers in my home, all built from 90% reclaimed parts. I find it is necessary to buy SSDs, but everything else can be obtained for free.

I have repaired several monitors, stereo amplifiers and recently learned about the Toshiba A200 NEC Tokin capacitor problem from this site. I have 3 Toshiba A200 laptops awaiting parts for repair.

I also dabble in Windsurfing and red winehttps://www.badcaps.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif
Cheers
Dave

[AidenGrayson]

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Hi,


I am Aiden and i am new to this forum!!

[voxel]

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Hello folks !
My name is Jeff "Voxel", from France ^^)

I'm Commodore-Amiga reseller AND service center since 1992 and totally nuts about Amiga since 1985. (you think Amiga was dead ? Think again ! ;-)))

But I repair far more than Amigas ! ence my presence on this website chasing infos about a PeeCee ^^)

Cheers,
Jeff ^^)

[ghostiepeeler]

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Hell all!
Here to troubleshoot my TV. Gotten tons of good info so far just need more specific. Wish me luck!

Jake

[Daveyj1]

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Hi from Dave I am a new Canadian forum member, been lurking for awhile. I am an electrical engineer by formal education (i am a P.Eng in Canada) and electronics tech/repair guy for 35 years informally having worked on everything from 80,000 watt ups systems to original IBM PC's/S-100 bus computers, etc. I started working as a helper at a local tv service/sales shop in grade 11. The current throwaway design spec / low MTBF for consumer electronics products has me fixing all manner of things for friends, family, and as a side-line to earn money for the occasional Big Mac.

[Bob Kontak]

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Bob from Ohio here.

I like to fix things. Sometimes I make money, but mostly not, as I am too slow and I like to fiddle with anything that needs attention.

That's where forums like this are a godsend. I was searching for info on fixing an LCD tv and ran across a thread where the established members here were sharp. Even if I don't post, I can still search. :-)

[bigjess007]

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Jesse from PA here.

I've visted before but was a lurker. I've got a bad dell and more in potentia so I'm here to seek the advise of the knowledgeable folks.

I recently recapped 4 old tivo power supplies to keep them going, so it's time to move up to the advanced stuff I guess

[djlag]

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Hello.

My name is Dimitris. I'm still in university, trying to become a mechanical engineer.

I was trying to test an lcd inverter and I found some very good information in the forum.