Electronics Forum / Repair / June 2007

What is in your opinion today's top laptop with the following three
criteria, all other things being equal (with the following
choices:pc,mac,windows,os x,linux,ie,firefix,opera):
1.Best value

Because of neighbours and respect for my own hearing I can only check out
combo amps, after repair, in the thermal and electrical power sense with a
dummy load.
Any thoughts on making a vibrational platform driven in range 1/5 to 5 Hz

I got a used 1992 Phillips 21" set. Set it manually to channel 73 for Dish
Network, to replace a smaller set at the same RF connection. It worked
normally with Dish Network, where the remote changes channels. Turned it
off, still plugged in and connected to Dish Network.

I have a few new in box AV switch units that i got for a project that
fell though. It has 4 sets of RCA AV inputs and 2 sets of outputs (RCA).
Has infrared wireless remote. About the size of a small cable TV box.
Made by everquest. $30 each.

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What is your purpose in life? What is the rationale behind our life?
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Have a Grundig T70-1020 ctv that powers up with a full white/pinkish
screen with flyback lines showing but no picture discernable (sound is
ok), then after 10 seconds psu shuts down back to standby. Something
EHT perhaps? All comments welcome.

i have problem with my sony handy cam.
i am getting error message: please use sony headcleaning casette.
i want to now what is the problem and where to buy the cleaning
casette?

I'm sure many have seen the old 2-pin DIN type speaker connector, which
consists of one pin + one blade...
I have a DIN socket variant that consists of pin-blade-pin - in other words
the speaker plug can also be inserted when reversed by 180 degrees. One

Hi. I'm hoping that someone can tell me how to separate the 20 sheet
sorter which is wired to my Sharp SF 2022 photocopier so that the
copier will work without it. My problem is lack of space. The copier
is in excellent working order but takes up too much room. i have

I have a slightly broken Samsung SV-651B VCR, which plays and records
(albeit in monochrome) but the sound does not work on any mode.
On playback, the picture seems to be mistracking in a cycle, yet it
responds to tracking adjustment.

   I have (free) Adobe Reader V5.0 (Windows 98SE computer).  I bought a .PDF
file service manual for a TV.  Unfortunately,  a printout (quality HP printer)
of a schematic page does not produce the desired results.  I tried everything.
  Adobe's "Help" indicates I can print to an ...

Having problems with my Grundig "Elegance 70" TV model MW 70-150/8
Dolby. The set kept switching itself into standby, and would reattempt
to fire up again, which after a few goes it managed to refire up. A
friend of mine who is a TV engineer suggested that I change the LOPT

A Gateway 26" LCD monitor/TV is getting warm. I measure 115oF (45oC) with a
contact-type thermocouple sensor attached to a DMM.
I'v been considering adding a couple of small 12v box-type vent fans to get
rid of some of the heat from the active components in the back of the unit.

This Icon unit is a ceiling unit for a car with an F6400TFT LCD monitor.
The circuit board inside says Toshiba TED60W12B and 1H16950.   The
connections to it were cleanly cut- I want to connect power- 12 volts, and
video.  There is a tiny white connector on the control board, but ...