Electronics Forum / Repair / December 2007

I appreciate that this will of course vary from manufacturer to
manufacturer, but in general terms can someone give the approximate
voltage?  I'm curious because I'm getting a "glow" from the outer
metal casing of a SCART lead connector on several pieces of

Hi, I'm need info on a power resistor and i'm not sure of it's specs.
250L   13ohm K
MICRON   05.
It's 350mm long  45mm wide and 30mm thick with 350mm leads. It seems to be made of aluminium.

Hey all
If like me, you're sick and tired of living from paycheck to
paycheck,
and stressing about money...then its time to change this!

Working order but for bad pot, but some things are not pucker.
One of the dual 50uF, 500V can caps has a dent, obviously not causing a
problem but leave as is, replace or try "panel-beating" outwards with some
jubillee clips and leather circumferential compression or some other

I have a more than one tft screen where the backlight shuts off after
~2 seconds. By turning the monitor off and on again I get the
backlight to work for another 2s.
The screen functionality for the TFT matrix seems ok. And because the

I'm having issues setting the bias voltage for the right channel.  The
service manual says to set it to 2.5mVDC.  I can set the left channel
with no problem, but the right channel drifts badly with warming
up/cooling down etc.  The left channel drifts around 2.1-2.8mV whether

For about a year or so, I have been thinking about something like that.A
few sites I have looked at before are    www.starnetwork.tv
www.lyngsat.com   and Pansat.(I don't remember the URL of Pansat) I have
read before the equipment cost anywhere from about $150.00 and up and

I have a two year-old Yamaha P-90 and I occasionally trip over the
power supply line.  It only happens four times a year or something, so
I've really never thought anything of it.
Today, however, the keyboard wouldn't turn back on when reconnected!!

Hi, we have a 27-inch Sanyo TV that's a year-and-a-half old. Not HDTV or LCD
or plasma or anything, just a plain old tube TV, it's our third straight
Sanyo TV, we've had good luck with 'em in the past and the price was right.
We left the house for a while today and left the TV on ...

Yesterday, I purchased an Insignia NS-F24TV 24" CRT television from
BestBuy. http://tinyurl.com/2hjzjq While the set is a cheap one, the
user ratings are quite high. After lugging it home and hooking it up, I
discovered a problem. All over-the-air and cable (analog) channels are

Kind folks,
I'm having a hard time trying to guess what's going wrong with our TV,
though, to be honest, I haven't yet cracked the sucker open because I'm
only home when the baby in the same room is trying to get to sleep. The

Aloha ,
We purchased a 29inch Toshiba flat screen tv with a undisclosed
fault .
Occasionally when switching channels the audio track is lost and

Servicing customers can and has been a very rewarding experience. However,
in the past probably 3 to 5 years it seems that customers are becoming more
and more demanding and less and less informed.

Not exactly a repair question, but this group is a more likely place to find
someone who may have encountered the device I seek to identify.
Recently while plundering a scrap Toshiba laptop display for ceramic chip
caps, I spotted a small 4 pin device with the Microchip mark on it, ...

I need a schematic or service manual for a Proscan TV, Model PS27113;
Chassis No. CTC169CL5.  Does anyone know of any free or cheap download sites
that would have a copy of this schematic, or maybe a Sams Photofact?
Thanks.