Electronics Forum / Repair / March 2008

I have a strange problem with the playing of DVDs on my Magnavox home
theater system.  Sometimes when playing a disc, towards the end it
just freezes or slows to an absolute crawl, as if it were going frame
by frame.  I have taken the cover off and cleaned the lens and both

Since I moved I can't find my power unit!
Anyone know the voltage on the power pins?

I picked up from Ebay a cassette deck.  It is a 2 head, 2 motor full
logic controlled deck.  The front panel was damaged a bit during
shipping and it requires manually prying the door open while pressing
the 'eject' button to load/unload tapes.  It is a microcassette unit.

I have aquired a 4600 and I was wondering if anyone knows what wire
connectors it needs for the speakers.

I have a Panasonic model PV-V4522 that has power supply damage -- screen
indicates there's some AC in the unit where there should be DC.  A power
supply 82Mfd/200V capacitor has a swelled end and I suspect that part but
before I disassemble the unit to possibly replace that I'd like ...

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These are 40W Wagner 795 halogen bulbs used in an automotive light
bar. They failed prematurely. We were very careful installing them
that they were never touched by hand. So I have some questions:
1. Why is it that touching halogen bulbs can decrease their life? This

I've got a sub-woofer. It consists of a box with the controls in it
and two speakers.
Here - http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/ragavpayne/IMG_2438.jpg?t=1206856195
The "box with the controls" has four ports in the rear. Two for input

I am searching for someone that can direct me in replacing a power
transformer on a circuit board. A friend of mine asked me to get her
electric hospital bed working again. She recently had to be cut out of
a pick-up after a head-on collision and still needs an electric bed.

Hello to all:
sci.electronics.repair is a favorite Usenet group I like to lurk.
IMHO some of this group's spam postings are beyond excessive.  I am
loath to impede good commerce and I wish that those who have spammed

Do we have any electronics experts out here who can develop a Billy
Mays TV filter?  What's needed is a filter which will automatically
mute the sound whenever a yelling Billy Mays commercial comes on.
If you're not familiar with Billy Mays, he's the dark bearded fat man

I need information on a 1940 Chev pickup radio.
                                   Thank Youi
                                          Vince

   Is anyone else having problems getting the correct part/s from
Fox International?
   They keep sending me the same wrong IC for an RCA TV (I don't have the
service manual).  A Fox tech told me that Thomson said this part is a

TO: Group host.!
Why all the gibberish stuff on this site, sure makes it hard to read
REAL posts.
Is there a real group host that is active enuf to erase the junk

Following on from the old Roberts radio that I requested a service sheet for
on here a couple of weeks ago, and which one of the regular posters was kind
enough to let me have, the same owner has now thrust an Ultra R786
"Coronation Twin" at me. Does anyone by any remote chance ...