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[futurethug]

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Hello, new member here

About to make MacFrankenstein from three dead Macbooks!

[kaptan]

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Hello there;
I found myself on this site while searching for information about the Samsung LCD TV motherboard. I thought that when I examined a little, it was formed from a useful community and I had to join.
The electronic I started in 1989 is now part of my life. I have worked for many years in Samsung, Sony, Philips, Sharp and Vestel authorized services and have had unique experiences. I established my own business a year ago. I am repairing all types of cards in the field of industrial and consumer electronics on a component basis. This is really very enjoyable.

[Patrickdurbin]

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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..

My name is Patrick. I've been a 🔥 firefighter most my live in Washington st and Alaska. The last 15yrs i've been a fire alarm tech. Ive got into electronics. What im working on is a LG 50pg20 plasma tv. Trying to diagnose what needs replaced.

[Patrickdurbin]

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My name is Patrick. I've been a 🔥 firefighter most my live in Washington st and Alaska. The last 15yrs i've been a fire alarm tech. Ive got into electronics. What im working on is a LG 50pg20 plasma tv. Trying to diagnose what needs replaced.

My name is Patrick. One of Bills friends also. Im a life long firefighter and looking for help with repair of a LG plasma

[Patrickdurbin]

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My name is Patrick. Im a lifelong firefighter in Washington st and Alaska. Got into electronics 10 yrs ago. Im a friend of Bill W. Just wanted to say Hello.

[flyinglo]

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good evening.... found this site by mistake... was looking for ups schematic.... spent the next couple hours just reading stuff on this site.... lots of good info....tnx....roy

[audiomodder]

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Hey all,
Longtime fan of the site here, such a nice community! I've been doing EE stuff for a number of years and I specialize in video game modifications and laptop repairs. See my site here:
https://segasonicfan.wixsite.com/retro

Though I also tinker and repair just about everything under the sun. Got some video tutorials I make online too.

Looking forward to being part of the community here

-SSF

[ME_Guy]

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Hello,

I'm a newly graduated mechanical engineer. I love taking things apart and fixing just about anything I can get my hands on. I usually stick with anything off-road or with a motor but I have always tinkered with electronics. I bought a few tv's that wouldn't turn on just to figure them out and learn. I've been wanting to learn to diagnose them for a few months and now that I'm graduated I finally have time. I will be starting a new position as an electrical field service engineer here soon and want to squeeze in a few projects. Thanks and happy holidays!

[Flaviocb22]

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i'm an enthusisastic with eletric components that want some knowledge about receiver and audio components fix. I'm brazillian

[Azurezodiac]

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Hi I am Ajaz, i am from Pakistan,

I do Component repair for fun. I love to work on new projects.

I am inspired by quotes " always try something new, remember, Arc was built by Amateurs, Titanic was built by Professionals."

[YurySpara]

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Nice to "meet" you.
My name is Gianluca, Italy, 45.
I would like science to win over human stupidity, to know the truth about aliens, and about other mysteries ... and in the meantime I try to survive in an increasingly stupid world.
Electronics gives me life, even if it's not easy ...

[psyolent]

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Howdy
Stumbled across this forum while diagnosing a bad backlight on my daughters LCD.
Also in IT and love my retro computers, Amstrads, Amigas and C64's.
Hail from the land down under

[DA_MAXX]

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New to site. Looking forward to much reading. I'm an Electronics Tech.

[mlap@bell.net]

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Hi Guys
My Name is Michel and I just have joined this forum today.

Being an Electronic eng. I hate to see stuff get lost and like to fix my stuff myself... Curently I have a Plasma TV going bad , likely the AC detect curcuit.

So I intend to use the Optocopler bypass and see if this will fix it

Also ,I was very pleased when I saw this solution on this forum ,and look forward for more sharing...


Michel

[dakotadevans]

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Hi! Thanks for letting me in. I am not in the business of repairing electronics, I am more of a hobbyist or weekend warrior, I buy and sell stuff at flea markets and often pick up things that need repairs. I am fairly knowledgeable and competent with meters and soldering irons so I am not afraid to crack open the case and dig in. I sometimes need assistance and am here to ask you more experienced folks when I do need it. I posted an issue I am having with an LG tv ( really? an LG? wow, it's so rare that they have problems!!) and I am hoping y'all can guide me to a proper solution!! And maybe I will be able to pay it forward with someone else's problem!! Thanks

[stuffinabox]

Thank you for allowing me access, my name is glenn , owner of stuffinabox solutions llc. Opening a shop in greenville michigan some of an electronics background and new to board repair but learning. Self taught at everything I do and 15 years of business with Hughes network systems as a installation contractor in both the residential and commercial markets.

[cacoiii]

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hi

[fachrym]

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Good Morning, greeting from Indonesia. it's nice to be here. thank you.

[acap]

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Hi, I'm an electronic eng. in search of knowledge about lcd tvs and also to share my knowledge of electronics.

[rfernan@outlook.es]

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Vi. This is Rafa from Bilbao, in the north of Spain, a new member just learning how to solve some issues. Thanks.