Electronics Forum / Repair / April 2006

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A while back there was a request for the manual on heathkit IT-5230 crt
tester, I found the manual, but now cant find the message from the person
needing it.
Anyone still have the message?

I'm missing one connector for these plugs
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Connectors like these are all proprietary right ?
What can I do ? Is there such thing as a universal connector for this

Thanks for taking the time to read this, again, (only if you've seen this
before) of course!
This 35" RCA is still driving me nuts and I'm taxing my nerves here.
The problem this set has is as follows. With any input, (rf, composite), the

Good morning,
About 6 months ago, a friend gave us his old TV as he was upgrading t
plasma.  At the time, he told us that there was a small problem wit
the TV that he described to us (I figured that for free, I'll live wit

I have an inverter board out of a LCD monitor with a bad cap.. I was
wondering what value it is. It says "22k 3k v" I asume that means 22
Pico-Farads 10%tolerance and it is rated for 3000 volts.
Okay.. I'm posting pictures of the inverter board and was wondering if I

I reset the clock on my VCR Sunday morning. When I turned off the VCR,
it ejected the tape that was in the unit. Now it will not accept any
tape. The VCR does nothing when a tape is inserted.
Any help would be appreciated.

I've got an Optronic (Sharp) SA-5905 and FM stations can't be locked
in... The servo lock light blinks and the signal cuts in and out... Any
ideas?

Toshiba 9" A/C D/C TV/DVD. When powered up, there is HV arcing in the
tube neck, and HV arcing from the tube coating to the degauss coils. TV
does not start, but shuts down immediatly. If I unplug the harness to
the neck board, the set powers up, DVD tray operates, but of course, ...

Hi there, i'm hoping this would be the right group to post in. I have
two tv's (5 and 9 years old) with blurry pictures, they take a while to
warm up and display a picture. The picture will get better the longer
it's left on but decent clarity is impossible.

Anyone know how this works?  Is there a sensor that recognizes the
transparent bits at the beginning and the end of a VCR tape?
I have two Sony VCRs that upon rewinding come to a crashing halt
rather than a smooth stop.

I have recently been having problems with my canon e310 Camcorder.
The camcorder will just power off after about 10-20 seconds after
turning it on. This happens when the camera is using ac and batt power.
The picture looks fine when its on, but just shuts itself off and I

My Dell 2000FP 20" TFT has some problem with the control circuits. It
started out as a temperature-related problem - if the monitor had been
switched on for say 30 mins and I switched it off and then on again, it
would get stuck in its boot-sequence or lock in standby mode. Ok again

Don't know how that happened! Sorry folks!!!
Thanks for the info BBY.

AV-27850, dead, repair vertical: LA 7832, 100 uf 35 volt cap,
75 volt zener, R 542 fusible resistor. Other caps check ok
with cap checker. Set runs fine, but LA 7832 gets quite hot.
Did I miss something?