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[beyssel]

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Hi everybody,
i am 63 old and a retired tv technician. I found this forum in searching advices to fix a Samsung plasma TV.
English is not my usual language so excuse my poor English.https://www.badcaps.net/forum/images...es/biggrin.gif
However I hope this forum will be very helpfull .
Marcel

[bbushong]

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Howdy, I'm Ben and I normally do nothing with component level electronics (I'm a retired Army pilot, and still fly CH47 helicopters). I'm certainly willing to learn, and I'm sure I'll l Iearn a lot on this forum. Heck, I've already learned a huge amount already! Thanks for making this available!

[PJack]

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Hello

[norv]

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Hello, I like learning about electronics, specifically music- and guitar- related applications. Which includes computers... and fried mobos
Thanks for providing a great resource,
Norv

[can123]

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Hello all,

I really don't have a clue what I am doing and signed up because I want to see if my second hand Hakko FX888 is the real thing.

[titoloc84]

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Electronics enthusiast, came across this forum while I was searching for technical information on backlight inverters. Someone suggested bad caps but they look fine.

I have taken apart a washer, found out the transmission was faulty. But before the transmission went out, this washer had gone thru some other issues. Push button to start washer took a crap. Luckily i was able to solder a new one and make it functional all over again. After this second one took a crap I soldered two wires where the two pins for the switch would be soldered, and voila by having these two wires make contact with each other I was able to start my washer.

I perform basic car maintenance, oil changes to installing new brake pads. I love getting down and dirty at work and in bed, but that's another story.

Electronics and computer engineering technology basic theory courtesy of ITT Tech.

Later, Gater

[Begbie]

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Hi, I'm a tinkerer and a compulsive fixer and collector of repairables. Have got a few TVs and set top boxes repaired. Recently revived a couple sof laptops but the failure rate is increasing and found myself here needing some informed advice!

[pivanov]

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Hello! I love to repair electronics and now I am trying to repair a TV of a friend. It is a Toshiba LCD TV model. I will post my question when I have access. Thanks in advance!

[OttawaEd]

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Hi All... "New member" here (AKA OttawaEd).

Just got to this forum by chance, while looking for info on troubleshooting and TV... read a few of your threads and had a few laughs with some of the clever, funny -yet very informative- responses from senior members, and thought it would be a good idea to join!

I am an electronics tech of 10+years, presently working for a children's treatment centre, a music lover -all sorts-, and relentless tinkerer!
Cheers!!

[adtamez]

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Hello all!

I live in Phoenix, AZ and I found this forum very interesting. I am a newbie in soldering and fixing electronics but it is an area that has always interested me.

I hope to learn a lot from this place and I really appreciate all your support and knowledge! This community it's great!

[oCaveman]

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Hello. New guy from Tx. I'm fairly new to the electronics repair world. I'm looking forward to learning a lot and giving back when I can.

[mmoore5553]

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I just wanted to say hello all. I just joined and look forward to learning from reading the posts. I was actually looking at getting an ESR meter and came across this board. I was looking at Bob Parker one. It is higher than what i wanted but looks like it does the job.

I am trying to repair a stereo receiver Yamaha rx v373. I will go into that on another thread.

But if you get board here is a nice YouTube Video of the failure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67GEcKIbqs8

[Jetmec]

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Hello everyone, I stumbled on this forum looking for information on TV repair. I am a novice and don't do a lot of TV work but I like to fix things so my latest project is a VIzio LED TV. It looks like there is a lot of good information here.

[mujeebas]

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Hello all
I Found this Forum while surfing web for some info about electronics i am 57 year old try to repair my personal electronic things my self many thanks to all members of the community for helping each others

[pratt26]

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Hi, J from Baltimore. Look to get help with my TV issues and then help others. Thanks

[JimboJet]

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Hey everyone. I'm a pc gamer and have replaced caps before on a couple of monitors and have reflowed the solder on a 8800GTS video card in my domestic oven and fixed the dashpod unit on my car despite being a complete novice in electronics or pcb repair! I'll have a go at most things if I think there's a slim chance of success as I dislike the modern habit of discarding faulty items vs repair.

My view is that I'm likely to bin it and have to replace the item if I cant fix it, so what do I have to loose?! So anyway, in all cases the repairs I've done so far have been down to dodgy capacitors which has led me to this site.

I hope to find a solution to my GTX580m graphics card which has blown SMD caps, but believe this to be tricky as these kind of caps don't carry identification markings. Perhaps after this post I can make a thread with a picture of the card and a request for help. I've looked for a schematic but google threw a blank and I don't have access to another working GTX580m card. I'm going out to buy a new multimeter tomorrow with capacitance measuring in order to measure other caps on the card but I suspect this isn't the best way to ident them as they could well be different to the damaged/blown ones!

[mj32405]

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Hi guys thanks for the help in advance..

[RM31859]

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Hello everyone,
I am a volunteer Firefighter/EMT here in NC and I have been a Lighting service electrician for over 10 years.Electronics are more of a hobby than anything.I love disassembling things and figuring out what's wrong and repairing them.I also like collecting and restoring vintage radios.I came across this site while researching out a problem with a Sanyo DP26649 LCD TV. I hope to become a very active and positive contributor to the forum.

[mhu]

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Hi, and thanks in advance for the support.

[Azagtoth]

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Name is Kresimir Stipetic
Born 30.12.1969
From Croatia

Working presently as technician on repairs , mainly Dell.
Hi to everyone and if there is anything i can help you with...i will.