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  • yogir
    New Member
    • Aug 2015
    • 2
    • united kingdom

    #11221
    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

    Originally posted by petabyte
    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 im leigh from lancashire in england just on here to see if i can learn how to fix my lg tv

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    • yogir
      New Member
      • Aug 2015
      • 2
      • united kingdom

      #11222
      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

      Hi all im Leigh from Lancashire England just on here to see if i can learn how to repair my lg tv

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      • TERoussy
        New Member
        • Jan 2014
        • 1
        • Canada

        #11223
        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

        Hi;
        My name is Tomas Roussy and I live in Canada, I am an very old guy, I started in computing when the machines works with lamps named Flip-Flop because they were on/off only to mimics today computers, the programing was done on a punched tape (7 data holes and one small for guide)
        From there I worked putting together computers on that old S100 boards (I guess nobody of the actual computer generation knows what I am talking about) with TurboDos as operating system. I cover computers programing from the Assembly beginnings going through Basics, etc. with full accounting software system implementations.
        To cut it short, I still have the stamina to learn always something new and still I do some reparations and installations but mostly PHP programing with MySQL
        I like to check this forum for ideas, especially for the Raspberry pi 2 latest model.
        Thank you for allowing me to introduce myself.

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        • ohmwardbound1
          New Member
          • Aug 2015
          • 9
          • usa

          #11224
          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

          Hey, Chris from VT usa here. novice to tv repairs. great understanding of current. play with low to high voltage, schematics, industrial electronic, ac/dc.(for work)
          fixed 2 of 3 T'V's since I started. want to continue knowledge. working on tvs I always end up reading back on badcaps so I thought Id sign up.
          thanks in advance
          CHrIS

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          • gattaca714
            New Member
            • Aug 2015
            • 4
            • United States

            #11225
            Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

            Greetings from southern California. I'm here to learn more about replacing parts on my TV to keep it running.

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            • supertype
              Member
              • May 2013
              • 14
              • United States

              #11226
              Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

              Hello I'm Michael

              Great to find a place i can share my findings and knowledge, share ideas and help fix almost anything.

              I work on Tvs, laptops, desktops and just about anything i find interesting.

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              • davidj488
                New Member
                • Aug 2015
                • 3
                • USA

                #11227
                Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                Hey all, thanks to some information I found here and to ModusLink PTS, I was recently able to fix my Panasonic TC-P50G15 plasma. So I'm going through the hoops here to register completely so I could post my experience and hopefully "give back" to the community.

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                • dryo
                  New Member
                  • Aug 2015
                  • 6
                  • france

                  #11228
                  Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                  Hello everyone, i am Remi, from France (sorry for my poor English^^)!
                  I like DIY and electronic repair.
                  I already fixed many devices such as laptop computers, synths, digital audio mixers, audio interfaces, and many more... Also made several DIY projects (my favourite is the Shruhi-1 from Mutable Instruments).

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                  • gnatymmas
                    New Member
                    • Jul 2014
                    • 5
                    • United States

                    #11229
                    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                    Hi.

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                    • Thakkie
                      New Member
                      • Aug 2015
                      • 7
                      • Netherlands

                      #11230
                      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                      I love this forum! It has helped me a lot!

                      thanks

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                      • !!JaxonReed!!
                        New Member
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 1
                        • United States

                        #11231
                        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                        Hello Everyone! Looking forward to interact with you on this forum....

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                        • sambob92
                          New Member
                          • Aug 2015
                          • 1
                          • lincolnshire

                          #11232
                          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                          Hiya everyone,
                          my name is sam,
                          Im 23 years old,
                          Im in the building trade..
                          Completely new to eletrics.
                          But i like two learn diffrent things
                          So thought id come invade and do some
                          Learning lol.
                          If you would like to no
                          anything else then please
                          message me .. thanks

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                          • !!SofiaMiglani!!
                            New Member
                            • Aug 2015
                            • 1
                            • United States

                            #11233
                            Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                            Hello Guys!

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                            • killer666
                              New Member
                              • Aug 2015
                              • 7
                              • Estonia

                              #11234
                              Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                              Hello!

                              I want try to repair my tv and need to start new thread to ask where are voltage measuringpoints =)

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                              • tram704
                                Member
                                • Aug 2015
                                • 12
                                • US

                                #11235
                                Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                Hey all,
                                My name is Ted, Having trouble with Panasonic TV. Found this site during my internet searching, so decided to give this a try.

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                                • mav_234
                                  New Member
                                  • Aug 2015
                                  • 1
                                  • canada

                                  #11236
                                  Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                  Hi all first time here.. hope to contribute where I can

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                                  • BleedCap
                                    Member
                                    • Aug 2015
                                    • 30
                                    • Malaysia

                                    #11237
                                    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                    Greetings everyone!

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                                    • powerwouz
                                      New Member
                                      • Aug 2015
                                      • 1
                                      • netherlands

                                      #11238
                                      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                      Hello from the netherlands,

                                      I'm wouter and like to repair, tweak and make the best out of a bad situation.
                                      Most of the times i rapair laptops, pc and notebooks.

                                      Hope we van learn from each other here...

                                      More people less work!!

                                      regards,

                                      wouter

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                                      • jrobie79
                                        Member
                                        • Jan 2015
                                        • 24
                                        • United States

                                        #11239
                                        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                        hello from Boston

                                        been having trouble with my 2012 panasonic p50gt50...replaced the main board a couple times, now I'm getting new power....been reading a wealth of information, hopefully I can fix this sooner than later!

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                                        • World2015
                                          New Member
                                          • Aug 2015
                                          • 1
                                          • USA

                                          #11240
                                          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                          I just picked up a LG 47LC7DF it doest have a picture and I haven't hooked it up to test sound. When I plug it in the power light is Red when I click the power button it blinks red and green stays black no picture.

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