New Members - please post your introductions here

[stef.lrx]

Hello, my name is Stephane and I am located in France

[Gucky72]

Good afternoon,

I'm Carsten and I stumbled across this forum because a PS5 died which I intend to rescue.
I am an IT pro from Germany.

[ThisIsWayTooHard]

Hi folks,

I'm Colin from NZ. I discovered this site whilst searching for a laptop schematic.

I'm currently 65; I started my career in electronics and computers with the Royal NZ Air Force back in '78 and working primarily on test equipment calibration, verification, & repair.

Of recent I've re-kindled a love of component level board repair and Arduino projects.

I look forward to participating on this fine site.

Cheers,

Colin

[AquaMan4750]

Hi found your site by watching Learn Electronics YouTube videos. I’ve worked with electronics since I was 7yrs old! I did 3yrs VOTECT in electronics, digital electronics. I served on Fast Attack Subs in the USN 6yrs as a STS2(SS) SONAR technician and advanced electronics technician.

I’ve done a lot work in computers, from designing and build to software development.

I come here looking for Schematics. It is amazing how difficult it is to find schematics for things like a car radio!

it used to if you needed to fix something you’d goto Sam’s photofacts and order a schematics that would walk you through everything.

I have a 2005 Honda LX which Radio/cd player has no audio, the design of the system combines to climate control with the radio interface. Just to set it up on the bench is quite the challenge.

[sks7788]

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..

thanks

[Amior]

我是 Amior 是电脑维修人员 来自中国

[faker350]

Hi everyone, I started getting into drones this year and I'm particularly interested in repairing DJI consumer drones. I think this skill could become my side hustle, and I'm working towards it. I know this isn't a drone forum, but I haven't been able to find one. If you know of one and are willing to share it with me, I would be extremely grateful.

[RBRND]

Hi all,

For a hobby I like to service the laptops/desktops and phones I use. Building and adjusting the hardware & specs. from scratch is something I've sort of been doing since early '90's (Win 3.11).
Nowadays, I'm less into building new devices, but more interested in servicing and upgrading mostly Apple devices.

When I stumble upon a specific issue, on a topic which is very rarely spoken about, I often find myself diagnosing while reading here, while ultimately coming to a solution.

Thanks community for the help thus far, hope to contribute some of my finds here as well.