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Sherwood RX-5502 Receiver Protection Shutdown, Repair, thoughts wanted...
Hello all... This is part of a longer story which I won't get into now. Suffice it to say that I've wanted to get my hands on a failed Sherwood RX-4105 or RX-4109 stereo receiver to see just what it...
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Store that sells ceiling fan capacitors?
This is not precisely on-topic, but this group is resourceful, and it does concern an electronic component. The no-name ceiling fan over our kitchen table was making a strange odor of the "electrical"...
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Hacking audio amplifier
A set of Harman Kardon Soundsticks are obsolete with most modern computers. They originally took digital audio via USB output from the computer and fed it to a multi-channel audio amplifier chip which...
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Wireless Security Systems
Anybody have experience with wireless security 4+ camera systems ? Are these systems 'bluetooth' and fight for throughput? Good ones for outdoor use? Any URL with a block diagram? I know, but google...
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Marshall JCM 2000, DSL 50W, year 2005
Whether red or green channel , on rare occassions the output will go clean, ie not distorted. Of course I cannot induce that at will. As the LED stays on ok unlikely a sw problem, often seen with...
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OT: Any ideas on a way to move/place small boulders?
Rough terrain. Don't want to score/mar the terrain. Need to move boulders around. approx 200 to 300 ft and up and down approx 5 to 10 ft Any idea on an easy way to do this? Remember, need small...
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Clean up and polishing
Any recommendation for a 'great' stainless steel polish to use next to glass and plastic? I found those consumer ones streak the SS, and worse, score the plastics.
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OT: Hi-tec at the BBC
Radio 4's long wave goodbye Last pair of valve transmitters signal end of 198kHz, home of BBC's Test Match Special and Today in Parliament Long wave transmission's days are numbered. A handful of...
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Type of ceramic wirewound resistor?
I have one in front of me labelled UTM 210-9 25435,3 watt probably Russian and can find no info Like the standard pillar white/grey ceramic resistors but instead of the wire returning down the flute...
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Solved:ASUS battery problem
I was wrong: the battery can come out the top. My friend's husband gripped the battery with a hemostat and used a penknife to push back the holding clip. With a little jiggling the battery came out....
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ASUS motherboard battery replacement?
A friend has an Asus P5N32-SLI motherboard. The battery is held in a black plastic frame that grips the battery in four places, say 2-4-8-10 o'clock on the battery. At 6 o'clock on the battery are two...
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Bosch washing machine - reset procedure
Hello, Please can anyone tell me the reset procedure for a Bosch Exxcel 1400 washing machine? It keeps stopping at random intervals. Sometimes it restarts when left for a while, other times after...
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blowing south bridge with hot air?
how sensitive is it with laptops(what chance is it stops working)when done proper way?
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usb freezes laptop?
whatever is plugged in any of the usb ports freezes the system (even a mobile phone ) It also get frozen during boot if you leave the usb device plugged only time it does not happen is when you...
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OT: problem with swapfile thrashing "solved"
If you recall, I had problems with the swapfile sometimes taking several minutes to "quiet down" after switching among programs. You might also remember that it happened most often with Mozilla...