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[nikospot]

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Hello, I found this forum while I was searching information for a faulty Plasma TV
My name is Nick, I am from Greece and I like repairing stuff (whatever it brakes at the house)

Maybe in the next days (when I have more free time) I will post my TV problem to try troubleshooting with help from others.

[jeffegg2]

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Hello from snowy Michigan.
Ass. degree electronics from Schoolcraft Community College.
Master Electrician State Licence Michigan

My Samsung is broke and looking for blink codes for it....

[marc milliken]

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Hi my Name is Marc and I found this site on a parts search for an sharp 46" Aquos LCD TV I found in the garbage an currently attempting to fix.I have some knowledge in PC mobo troubleshooting and repair.

[easyred]

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Hi looking for advice on my faulty plasma 60 PS8000
Many thanks

[Abe700]

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Hey guys,
My name is Abe.
I used to do computers repair, software and hardware, but when my friend's TV died, they asked me if I wanted to have it, and said yes It was a 32" Kodak LCD. I opened it, and it was my first tv to open. I immediately noticed 3 bad capacitors. Ordered them online with my first cheap soldering gun (still have it.)
Few days I had nice running tv.

That got me in working on tv as really for fun and some extra money.

Happy to be here.

[erlich82]

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My name is Erlich and i am from the beautiful mountain west. I have been repairing junk hardware for years and have looked to this forum on occasion for help. I consider myself a geek at heart but measure my money in finance. Gotta pay the bills. I look Tigard to assisting others severe i can and learning what i can from those who know much more than myself.

[dmanthei]

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Hello everyone,

I'm Dave. I've worked for Apple in the past,
and have a pretty good history of repairing LCDs and electronics in general.

This seems like a useful place for finding others with experience
to help troubleshoot and diagnose/fix problems.

[Toadster]

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Hello,

My name is Brandon. I live in British Columbia, Canada and have a career in software engineering. I have been able to successfully recap two devices, a monitor and a PSU, from the valuable information on this site and I seek advice on a third.

[tfs2015]

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Hello,

My name is Tom. I live in Minnesota (where it is very cold right now) and I have been studying and working on electronics since age 12. I currently run my own business that specializes in computer and flat screen TV repair.

I joined this forum to get some more insight on the exciting field of electronics and to get help when I need it. I hope that you welcome me with open arms and I hope that I can in turn provide some of my expertise and experiences to this forum.

Thanks
Tom

[GuitarGuyLP]

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Hi My name is Ryan, and I am from Nanaimo, BC. I am an electronics engineering technologist, and I work as a Biomed. So basically I repair all kinds of stuff for a living.

I have an LG plasma that just died on me, and I am hoping to get some good troubleshooting advice. I would hate to throw out a plasma with how rare they are becoming!!

Thanks,

Ryan

[alexdek]

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Hello Folks

I'm Alessandro. I presently live in Italy and I'm trying to repair my faulty Marantz 1120. I particularly love it because it was my first amplifier (bought new in 1974 !!)
Hope to find some help here!
All the best to everyone.

[Robkonrad]

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Hi I'm Roman from Germany.

[ooober60]

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Hey everyone. Monitor failed today so I came here hoping to figure out what's wrong with it

[bizziar1]

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I am a rookie needing help I have been repairing tv, computers and other electronics for some time but I am no pro. I have a fuse blow problem I cannor trace and I need the help of folks just like yourself, have I found the right home?

Bizziar1

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..

[bizziar1]

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A17f6fpw power board with the dreaded fuse blow problem, has anyone traced it to the short?

Bizziar1

I am a rookie needing help I have been repairing tv, computers and other electronics for some time but I am no pro. I have a fuse blow problem I cannor trace and I need the help of folks just like yourself, have I found the right home?

Bizziar1

[jimbojangles]

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Hi,

my name is James, and I'm enjoying learning to fix broken things!

[phenol]

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Hello everyone.
I'm not really new to this site as I've been using tips from here for years. But I finally decided to register.

Cheers to all.

[ktpul]

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Hello

[Kraske]

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Hi all!

My name is Matt. I'm a mechanical engineer living in Washington State. I've always enjoyed tinkering with electronics and fixing things when I can. I hope that by using the information on this site, I can further develop my skills and finish some of the projects I've got laying around

[coldfuse]

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To whom it may concern,

I go by J or on this forum, Coldfuse. Feel free to call me either.

A tid-bit about me, I'm currently a college student obtaining his AA to transfer into a Bachelor program for my Bachelors of Computer Science. I've always had a natural itch for technology and that's what has driven me my entire life to dive deep into the hive.

What has brought me here was fairly enough is search for a solution for my current predicament, a suspected blown Backlight Fuse on a board which I'm unable to obtain schematics for and as a last resort because my hardware knowledge is not what it should be to solve this issue myself, I am taking the effort to reach out to the technical community online in hopes of a resolution and look forward to continuing my membership thereafter.

Thanks, J.