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electronic start for fridge motor?

Hi all, sorry for slightly OT! A friend of mine made a very nice compressor out of a fridge compressor motor, now this...
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posted by frank
1 comments posted 16yrs posted by frank

Audiolab 8000A

Hate the things, pa schematic out there but not prea it would seem. Preamp problem t'would seem. At switch on a pair of...
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posted by diverse
13 comments posted 16yrs posted by diverse

Samsung plasma TV PS-42V4S

Hi all. I've a plasma TV which has a problem with the picture. If you think of verticle lines through the entire screen...
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posted by powerampfreak
12 comments posted 16yrs posted by powerampfreak

mechanical zero on a small meter

I have an old MFJ SWR meter with a built in counter. It has an LCD display to read frequency and it uses a small 2 inch...
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posted by captainvideo462009
17 comments posted 16yrs posted by captainvideo462009

Pro-51 scanner radio keyboard repair?

Has anyone here had experience cleaning the push button keypad on a scanner? My 15 year old Radioshack Pro-51 works fin...
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posted by none
6 comments posted 16yrs posted by none

Sacrificial power darlington?

For an audio amp that may have catastrophic oscillation problems. If you combined TIP3055 and TIP41C (say) , with biasi...
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posted by diverse
0 comments posted 16yrs posted by diverse

how to hide a cell phone tower...

http://www.edn.com/blog/1470000147/post/1920049992.html?nid=3351&rid=764914 bob
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posted by sound
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Sony 27" Trinitron Dead

It's a KV27TS20 almost 19 years old. Don't worry...it's been superceded with a nice Sony HD LCD TV. But I figured I wou...
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posted by screen
10 comments posted 16yrs posted by screen

Replace missing caps for fuse holders.

I have an Adcom GFA-555II that has four missing caps for the fuse holders. There is one cap that is not missing and the...
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posted by farberbear.unspam
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Technics RS-TR255 Cassette Decks

This may well qualify as a "Lost Cause", but ... I have 2 dual decks per the subject line. On both, the record drive wi...
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posted by puddingDOTman
14 comments posted 16yrs posted by puddingDOTman

MSI megabook L735 black screen

I have this MSI laptop i cannog get to work, i have reseated all cables, cpu and ram but the laptop just don't want to...
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posted by sunnylion
0 comments posted 16yrs posted by sunnylion

TIP: 1/4 inch socket with isolated switch/es

I'm getting rather tired of seeing band amp failures due to the use of these flimsey domestic grade of amp headphone so...
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posted by diverse
4 comments posted 16yrs posted by diverse

Best Soldering Iron for SMT Work?

I've used Metcal MX-500's at work for about 12 years now, and really love them. I'm looking to do more electronics work...
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posted by gwhite
31 comments posted 16yrs posted by gwhite

Hooking up CD through tape input

I sold a Realistic mini receiver to a fellow who wanted to run a CD player through it. I did not ask which brand/model...
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posted by doidy1
23 comments posted 16yrs posted by doidy1