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    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

    Hi all. I'm a at home DIY kinda guy. Work on auto dialers and CRMs (www.akamarketing.net)but come here for information on the components I tend to have to fix lol

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      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

      Hello from Maryland.

      I have no professional electrical training or anything but just enjoy messing around with electronics! Been looking through the site for awhile now and have been finding some great information!

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        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

        Hi from France,
        Trying to fix video games led me to be more and more interested in soldering/desoldering techniques. I have already found some nice information on this forum, but still a few questions I would like to get answered.

        I have no backgrounds in electronics but I like fixing stuff !

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          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

          A long time UK lurker has a TV to fix.

          Hope you can help.

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            Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

            Hi, I'm a musician, video artist, and promoter based in Manchester.

            Mainly here to fix a set of Alesis M1 Mk2 speakers. No idea what I'm doing!

            =D

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              Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

              hello

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                Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                Originally posted by petabyte View Post
                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..
                hello

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                  Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                  Hello, new to the forum and need help with a TV

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                    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                    Ok I posted and I still can't ask my question in the tech forums, says I don't have permission to start a thread.

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                      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                      Nevermind...I'll wait the required hour....I never read all of the instructions.

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                        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                        Hello,

                        This looks like a cool forum. I am getting ready to repair a laptop. I'm sure I will be posting soon asking for help. Thanks in advance.

                        Brad

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                          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                          Hi,

                          32 year old electronics engineer from Denmark here. My five year old Plasma screen went dead a couple of weeks ago (during the Olympics, Bummer! ). I haven't really gotten my fingers dirty with electronics since a got my masters degree back in 2009, so I really needed some information on how to go about fixing my plasma.
                          Fortunately I found all the information I needed on this forum and on Youtube, so now I have a fully functioning Plasma screen again and saved a lot of money by doing it myself.

                          Hitting this pot of knowledge gold has let me to believe, that I can fix other electronic issues. So I'll definitely be visiting this forum from time to time, when I need some help. Thanks!

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                            Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                            Hello my name is Ray , looking for information on LG TV repair

                            Thanks Ray

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                              Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                              Hello World !!
                              I come to find help.

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                                Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                I am working on my own LG 50PS60 Plasma TV .

                                Problem is no picture on top half , just black , you would figure that is a y DR ,
                                but I replaced that and also the Y SUS and control BD .
                                No go . any one have that problem

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                                  Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                  So my name is Melanie and I like to fix things, and learn from others that fix things! Have a LG TV that I am going to try to fix. What do I have to lose if it is already broken? Glad to be in the loop of knowledge.

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                                    Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                    Hi people, I'm Frank, I'm here to learn of you, and help If I can.

                                    Thank you.

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                                      Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                      Hi - my name is Mat. I came across this forum during a search for ways of prolonging the life of my electrical goods at home. Seems a shame to throw away perfectly good kit that only needs a minor repair.

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                                        Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                        Hi all, just joined! I have a dead Samsung EU40d6100 TV and looking for some help.
                                        The power on LED is just blinking away to itself Opened up the back and 220V is getting through the thermistor. Got a stable 5V but Any suggestions where to look next?

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                                          Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

                                          Hi everyone, new to the forums and wanted to get my first post in.

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