New Members - please post your introductions here

[swhatszup]

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Hi Everyone,

I am new here and just want to say "Hi!"to everyone and tell everyone what a great job you have done with this site and forum. I am retired IT guy who worked in the IT Industry for approx. 35 years. System programming was my primary skill but for a few years I also worked on hardware (mainframe computers and disk subsystems) but my repair skills were limited to the FRU board level. I have always attempted to fix things on my own since I was young. I am not an expert with electronics like some on this board, but know which end of a soldering iron to hold and have some basic electronic skills. Really want to say what a great job and knowledge pool you have here. Really glad I found the site! Nice work!

Regards,
Armand
aka
Swhatszup

[Baserunner]

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Hi!

I'm a rookie wanting to learn more about repairing my tv

Greetings from Amsterdam!

[Mr.Orange]

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Hi, been on this site many times, and I don't join many forums anymore but finding real tech knowledge on the web is more often a succession of misses & 2nd hand misinformation.

I'm a electronics tech n' have been into electronics since I was about 10, taking apart radios. I 've worked in many fields but interest is more hobby than full-time pursuit.

I have self-learnt many tricks to fix stuff, anyway hope to add more to the site than I absorb.

[Wox]

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..

Hi

[Wox]

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Hi, my name is Wox and I am in Scotland. I dabble in LCD Tv repair and have frequented this site previously for tips and have found it extremely useful. I am now a member and look forward to conversing with you all.

[Frimp]

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Hello all,
My name is Phil and I am just a DIY kind of guy. I do not know much about electronics but I have successfully repaired many home appliances over the years. My latest challenge is my LCD TV and that is how I found this sight.
Thanks in advance to all of you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.
Now on to that TV, wish me luck!

[r2d2leboss]

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Hello,

My name is Jean and I come from France.
I'm an electrical engineer and a robotic fan.

[Wox]

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May I ask what is wrong with your tv?

[red kiosk]

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Greeting All,

I'm pretty much a newb with electronics, but a common-sense quick learner that likes to tinker. I joined this board to help me revive a 10 year-old PhotoVu PV1940 Digital Photo Frame. I will start a new thread regarding this project after my introduction. Looking forward to being a member of this board. Thanks in advance and take care!

Jim

[gazel]

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Hi all, I've just joined this forum to try and get some advice on repairing my laptop. Really happy to be here and I hope I can get some good knowledge from here.
Posting from the UK (and it's raining)

[sandersen]

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Hello all,
My name is Dan and I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I work in the packaging industry building and designing machines. I like to learn new things and am a DIY kinda guy.
Thanks!

[BetterBob]

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Greetings and salutations to all of this amazing forums members.

I've been lurking, reading, blowing things up, reading more.... lol.

I am a computer technician, landscaper, electrician, plumber, mechanic, and general fix it guy.

Due to the information, knowledge, and sometimes lack of knowledge posted here I have repaired 4 LCD's.

I figured I would come out of the shadows before I started posting.

[amules]

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Hi fellas,
I wanted to say hello to the brightest group of people on the Internet! I'm new to soldering and component repair.. I'm an electrician by trade, so I can troubleshoot and read meters etc... I have fixed many Pannys, Samsungs, Vizios, both LCD and plasmas since Feb of this year. I prefer a plasma over LCD but they both retrieve nice cash either way . I think the Panny TH-50PZ85U is one of the best built.. The newer ones are nice but lots of issues which I guess is a good thing and brings us here haha..

[1337h4X0r]

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Hi there,

My name is Paul. I have a magnavox tv with a power supply issue that is giving me grief. I came on here to hopefully get some input. Thanks

[alika808]

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Hello, I am a new member looking for technical advise with my Samsung TV. Actually, this TV was given by a friend and will not power on. During browsing the internet, this site came up and I read thread with similar symptoms with my issue. I do appreciate for future assistance that I can get in this forum from the subject matter experts (SME).

[den64]

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Hi Everyone,

I'm 31 years old and I work in I.T and electronics buisness. Im self employed . Been doing electronics and I.T for more than 13 yrs. Glad to be here to share and poke the minds of other great people.

Thanks for having me.

[MikeyBe]

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Hi. Just registered here.

I normally spend my life repairing laptop motherboards but usually end up with a house full of stuff various friends/family insist I fix for them...

[yesheN]

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Hello everybody,
I'm retired engineer, and i have tinkered with electronics and computers since my youngest age (i soldered my first Z80 computer years ago). I always keep things, trying to recycle them. I'm also french, but there is no cure for that ...
Philippe

[sarnade999]

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Hi Everyone,
I'm an Electrical Maintenance Engineer, working on the Production Line for a small Dairy in Devon. UK.
I generally repair all the electrical problems I encounter myself down to PCB Level. Can save the Company a fortune.


However I have an issue at home with a Pioneer Plasma TV, which has got me stumped.
The TV is a PDP505PE approx 9 years old.
I am experiencing green dots (speckles in the centre of the screen). These dots appear only on skin colour and Red backgrounds.
I have replaced the Y-Drive Assembly PCB ( all be it with a second hand one ). but the fault is still present.
Any advice would be most appreciated.
My appologies for attaching this issue with my introduction post, but I dont seem to have the privelages to create a new thread.

[Marclou1969]

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Hello folks,Im Marc from Maryland.I work at a landfill,And I get these tvs free all the time<Some I can fix with simply changing bad caps,others are a little out of my league lol.Hopefully I can get some help here,Thanks guys.