Electronics Forum / Repair / December 2006

Have this mobile radio i will be looking at soon
when i get it.
   It works perfectly, apparently how ever, it constantly
draws 6 amps when turned off which is a lot more than it

The tuner selects ok, but the RF video out on all channels  'phases'
from clear picture to garbled and back to clear every 1 sec. Audio is
fine. The rest of the VCR operates perfectly. I got it off Ebay a while
ago, but don't recall if I initially hooked it up to cable or not, so ...

I was copying 8mm tapes to my computer using a video capture card and
now one is stuck in the camera. The screen shows the "other error"
symbol and the camera won't eject, play or rewind. It does not appear
there is an emergency eject button anywhere. I had just copied 4 tapes

Good day all!
I have a RCA P60152CK rear projection unit that appears to have a
coolant leak in the green picture tube. I have removed the light box
from the unit and removed the green tube and lens assembly from the

I need to remove the picture tube from a 14" computer monitor.  I'd like
to release the vacuum first because i think i should before i remove the
tensioned wires holding in the tube.  I have removed the neck board and
can now see the indexing plastic of the socket.  That indexing ...

I have many gaming systems hooked up to my 27 inch, standard definition
Sony Wega and it's been an amazing TV for about 5 years now. No
problems at all. After getting a Xbox 360 several months ago I noticed
a weird problem. When I'm playing my system, I get strange horizontal

Mark can likely answer this one.  Is the correct Panasonic motor for this
one the RXQ1218kit?  I once had the cross reference for the numbers for
these Yamaha units that had the bad panasonic spindle motors, but can't find
it.  This appears to be the one.  I can get it in 1 day ...

I have a toshiba TE2100 wiht a faulty femail board to board connector on the
motherboard/power supply board. i heard alot of them had issues like this.
the thing is its an 80 pin connector, but im not sure of the pitch, or that
sh.t, anyone know where to find a replacement ...

Hi....
Picked up a Technics SL-BD22 on Ebay.  The tone arm is supposed to
return to the cradle at the end of the record or when you press the Stop
button. Unfortunately, it doesn't.  Otherwise, looks new & sounds quite

A friend of mine had a cat puke in the back of her TV.
Appearantly, it was there for a while because R687, R685 and D629 are
destroyed beyond recog.
I checked my books, I don't any info on that model.

Okay, this is me attempting to fix a TV when I probably should just go
buy a new one...but I'm an engineer, which means I'm cheap and I think
I can fix anything.
When I change the channel (with the remote or from the tv itself) the

Been in electronics for years but focused on radio and communications.
Only minor work in television.
My Sister gave me the following unit.  It's a 2003 model that was
working great.  She turned it on a couple of weeks ago and now there is

Is it dangerous to the output transistors or something to run a radio
without speakers?  
What if the volume control is kept at the minimum?
This wouldn't be a problem with a tube set iiuc, right?, but I'm not

Has anyone _ever_ found a laptop model that the screen could somewhat
easily be salvaged for use as a standalone display?