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Could be worse. Not sure when I get back to the TIG, but it’s not happening the next 2 weeks… maybe on the weekend. It’s firewood splitting time and got to mow my fields off.Comment
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Yeah… more BBQ and
on the weekend. Work was crazy today. I did cheat and started mowing, but must my blades are so dull, I might as well mow grass with toe nail clippers. 
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Yea, I can't wait , my daughter makes a fantastic steak , and shrimp. Wash that all down with a cold one. Relax! That's my plans. Get out that grinder, and file, sharpen
those blades, makes it easier on you, and that mower. Have a great Father's day weekend. I'm going to get a few more components this afternoon. I'll let ya know what I find.Comment
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i figured out why my mower was mowing so shitty. The blades were bent! Had to order a couple of new ones. Funny you say shrimp... The last time I made shrimps, the whole table got quiet, no left overs and got request as birthday meal. lolComment
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Steak, and shrimp one of my faves.Daughter does it outside camp style, open fire, baked potatoe in fire, so good with Ice cold beer. Did you get any vibration with those bent blades.Comment
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Yummy… yeah… I bought a bag of shrimps. Surf ‘n turf… with shrimps, steak, a baked potato and an ice cold beer? I am coming down for a visit. lol.
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You're welcome to anytime. Plenty to go around. Bring my favorite with you, some Crown Royal. I got a few things over the weekend done. Replaced some caps on the Power supply, and a few that have that corrosive glue all over the place, mostly the big caps. Some on the control board. Then re check the components we changed, then I'm testing on dim bulb. Praying for a successful test.Comment
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I’ll keep my finger crossed that all your work paid off!
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Do you know if the tester I use, can test components in circuit? It's the FNIRSI.Last edited by rccrasher65; 06-16-2025, 10:16 PM.Comment
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Components as MOSFETs, BJT’s etc have to be always out of the circuit. Even with capacitors it depends on the circuit. I am using the Peak DCA Pro and even with that the component has to come out.Comment
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Yes,I just did a little more research, and no, all components must be out of circuit, reason I asked I wanted to check those white plate resistors behind the 4 big main filter caps, hard to get anything back there. I'm not suspecting any damage, but just want to be sure!Comment
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Resistors? Just use your DMM?!Comment
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I think it's time to replace now, rather than later... just saying... you put this much effort into the amp, a few new filter caps wont break the bank.Comment
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I have the caps, I guess I'll replace them now, makes things so much easier. I'll have to delay the dim bulb for a few more days, getting anxious now. I'll have some pics of my work as well. When I'm done that is.Comment
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Hello everyone,
I'm turning to the Badcaps community to help me troubleshoot the radio Rx card from my (old) garage door opener. While I could just ditch that card and replace the whole system, I first would like to understand "why" it suddenly stopped working, because that's just how I am wired...!
Some basics: the receiver works on a 30.875 Mhz frequency. Yes, I'm aware this is not in use anymore in a looot of places. It does not use any rolling code, it's just a regular dip-switch code that you have to set up on both the receiver and transmitter. The receiver... -
Hi, I'm seeing one 9V relay having temperature 40C on its 9V (primary) side. Does that seem right? I switched 2 relays on that board and the temperature was the same (on the same position), so I'm sure it's not a faulty relay. I measured voltage on that relay and it was 9.5V DC, so that looks good. I don't see any other relay on that board having that kind of temperature and they have 9V on them too.
I thought maybe the transistor that is switching this relay keeps switching on/off, so I also checked for AC and there was almost none: 0.3V using mV range. No steady frequency was shown, but... -
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I have this board that suddenly stopped supplying power to an output that drives an interchanger cleaner motor.
I checked while the board was in place with all wires attached and there's no AC voltage on the corresponding plug X5
This X5 is driven by fuse F8 (tested OK) which comes from the second orange relay
To make sure there are no charcoaled contacts inside the relay, I got a 24VDC power supply and got it ready to manually power up the coil side of these relays.
I respected the polarity, positive to cathode of protecting diode
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I have finished my work. The new lights come on except the one for stereo, I reversed the bulbs to no affect, anyway, the unit powers on, relay clicks. I have no DC voltage in speaker outputs, I also do not have any AC in the speaker outputs. There is some faint crackling in the speaker. This unit cranks up loud so I had the volume on very low. Everything seems to be fine but I can't really check the switch until I can get sound out of the outputs. I was going to do caps for the power supplys and the tone board but thought if it was cranking loud at one time maybe just leave it alone until it...
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I was working on this CNC machine today found no keyboard functioning no control relay powering on
The screen powered on and was giving an operation error but the manual was not very clear about what the error exactly was but with a little bit of troubleshooting and finding out that the control relays not powering on and no keyboard functions we narrowed down to this one switching power supply which of course does not have any indicator LED light they are on the keyboard interface/relay controller board
Found shorted diodes on main controller relays there are 3 of them that...
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