Electronics Forum / Electronics / January 2006

I have a 21" Dell CRT monitor.  About a third of the way from the top
of the screen there is a horizontal line - just like you see when an
entire line of pixels fails on an LCD monitor.  It's only very faint
at the moment.  The line is dead still (doesn't roll with the refresh

Hi, all
My cat is being tagged with one of those RFID chips. Now I want to read the
information.
Cat gets into places where I do not want it to go and I want to set up a

I have got 3 five inch Philips monochrome crts untouched in their orignal
boxes.
The  model is D14-363GY.
They are possibly 10 years old but 2 of the boxes are still unopened and the

Sorry for the cross post, I think this may be the correct group to post
this.  Would it be possible to connect a home thermostat to a small
portable electric heater?  I am trying to control the temp in another
project inside an insulated box, and was trying to get more precise ...

hi, does anyone know anyone who is using a jaycar smartcard programmer and
card to access foxtel satellite ?
the guy at the shop told me that people are using the equipment to watch
foreign channels

I picked up a cheap T-type thermocouple meter with a bad  probe.  Will
a J-type probe work with the T-type meter (w/same plug)?  I wasn't
sure if the meter was calibrated to a certain type of probe.  The
meter is a Digi-Sense model 91100-20, if that helps.  Seems like eBay

I am looking at getting an mp3 player, but with so many on the market it
is hard to know where to start.  Have heard that the 5gb iriver is a
good buy, but is it any better than the ipod nano or creative zen 6gb,
which all seem to be around the same price.  Am a complete novice ...

I need to stock up on Sanyo NiMH rechargeable batteries. Anyone knows
where to buy in Sydney? I've browsed electronics stores and digital
camera retailers, to no avail.
They're dirt cheap on ebay, but I'd prefer to buy them over the counter

Someone gave me an old, and by the looks, well used Tektronix 475A
oscilloscope. No manual, or leads/probes. Seems to work. Turns on and the
dot-line traces across the screen. Where might I find leads for it? Do these
tend to be generic or highly proprietary/specialized?

So my 3 year old powerbook battery finally crapped out on my over the
weekend.  I opened up the battery case and found that it has 8
Panasonic CGR18650A (3.6V, 2000mAh, Li-ion) in it.  I did a little
research and found that this battery is out of production.  So i was

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Silly question, probably.  I have a cheap DSE multimeter, model Q-1420.  
Documentation's long gone, but I wanted to know its input impedance when
measuring DCV.  I'm setting the idle current on an amplifier and the
service manual specifies a VTVM (tube voltmeter) to make the ...

I need some information about the current approach to safety of new
equipment with regard to fire hazards created by a fault. I appreciate
there are generic standards covering the ejection of molten metal and
so on, but I am wondering about the application of the "single

Hi, all
Can anyone assist in obtaining one? Friend bought the car and he wants to
instal handsfree kit. Toyota sells CD on the car for about $300. Books on
this car are not available yet in shops.

Looking for a source for ultra bright LED found in single cell flashlights
now being sold everywhere.
Catalogs all show at least 1.7 volts needed. A single 1.5 volt alkaline cell
can not light the regular LEDs I have.