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.