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Toshiba portable DVD player
Hi, A friend dropped off a Toshiba SD-P1900 portable DVD player for me to look at. No mechanical sign of life -- power indicator successfully illuminates to indicate charging vs. charged. Backlight...
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Do you think splicing 100' of wire onto a GTO exit wand would work?
I bought too short of a driveway-gate exit wand (GTO FM139 = 50 feet); I need 150 feet. Nobody told me (so I'm saying it here), one really needs about 150 feet if they want the driveway gate to be...
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USB Cable with Aluminum Shield Braid
I was fixing a mutilated cable for a friend's portable music/video player with a weird connector at the device end. So I figured if I could get the connector shell open, I'd just use a new USB cable...
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WNTD: Service man or just schematic for SONY AVC-3200 video camera
Howdy all- Anyone have a service manual or just a schematic for the SONY AVC-3200 video camera? This camera is very old -- from around 1970. I'd very much appreciate a scan of just the circuit...
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T-shooting MP3/CD player and TV/DVD player with similar problems
I have a portable cd/mp3 player that started acting erratically, before it appeared to stop working. It would fast forward, or stop for no apparent reason, almost as though someone were controlling it...
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Tek TDS420 help?
This scope has the famous "FAIL ++ Acq" error which points to the infamous failed (and leaking) SMD caps on the acquisition PCB. I'm moving on to troubleshoot another (unrelated, I think -- and hope)...
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Faulty dehumidifier
I have a portable dehumidifier (Wickes own brand; I think it's a compressor model?) about 18 months old which has stopped working. The humidistat appears to be working in that if you turn it up, it...
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HP 8640b replacement combination gears are available on E-bay
They are resin casted clones for the combination gears for the range and peak deviation module of the HP 8640b signal generator. They are NOT original spares intended as a replacement of HP part/no...
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Re: Cassette tape speed adjustment
of definite using complain there the Obviuosly, flutter 3000hz do the quartz my A rather belated follow up, just got the representative measurements back from the mechanical engineer. 1.99 +/-0.01 of...
 
File this book under "Fiction".....
Well, it's certainly fiction now......
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Philips model #32HFL5460S/27 no picture
I don't have experience with these flat panels (have worked on regular tube sets for about 5 years), so I'm hoping for a little help. This set powers on, and you briefly see the philips logo on screen...
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Wanted: schematic for KROHN-HITE MODEL 440-A Oscillator
Does anyone have the schematic for the vintage tube-based KROHN-HITE MODEL 440-A Oscillator that they could scan and send me, or point to a link (I haven't found one.) It's bigger than some...
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Troubleshooting a digital thermostat
How do you verify that a battery-powered digital thermostat is working like it should? From what I've read, it seems that it is supposed to electrically bridge the connection between R wire and the W...
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Germanium Power Transistors?
I think I might have toasted a/some transistor/s last night. I dropped a test probe into my tape deck, and saw sparks. I put it back together to check everything and the transport motor was running...
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Electronics query re 68000 CPU
What's the best way to pause a 68000 CPU? I'm diagnosing an old game PCB and want to pause the screen so I can concentrate on fixing a hard to track down graphics error. Pausing it would help...
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