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That revealed the absence of Raw B+ on the Drain of the SMPS’s FET, and it was
easy work to find that the FET was shorted and the 1.5 ohm - 7W Surge Limiter resistor was
open. But that is not the subject of this column. The intent of this column is to show how I
have been Faked out, so that it doesn’t happen to You! After restoring Power to the chassis,
the Screen lit up - but there was No Vertical Sweep.
Oh Pshaw! I do so hate it when that happens! You fix one problem that it came in
for, but then have another unrelated problem. I reflowed the solder on the Vert.Sweep IC
with no success, ESR’d all the caps in that circuit, and then sat down and had a good Cry
because none of this helped even a single bit! I was ready to Surrender when I finally
Fig.2 opened a schematic and looked closely in that vertical circuit. (See Fig. 3, Page 5) Can you
see it? Look closely at those yoke connections on that chassis!
Continued on Page 5
State Treasurer
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Joe Sopko, CET
216-381-1140
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Joe Sopko, CET
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Ron Purkhiser
Dick Smith 352-666-4773
Creative Electronics
The main part of the meeting was to look at a Powerpoint Program of training that had been presented DISCLAIMER
at last year’s NPSC by the TPA “ NEW”. Each person at that NPSC class was given a memory stick Information presented in "The
with that presentation on it showing VIZIO LCD & Plasma products. Viewing the PPT Here in Speaker" is derived from many
Cleveland meant that we didn’t have the Words that were spoken in that class, but the person who had
sources and is believed to be
been at the NPSC class tried to remember some of them and went through the PPT slide by slide correct at time of printing. We
showing products from the last 3 years. The Technicians here in Ohio did some brainstorming while make no guarantee, express or
the slides were being shown and called out our own words to discern what the slides were telling usimplied of the accuracy, effi-
and telling tips and fixes that they had encountered. Between all of us, we managed to come up withcacy, or safety of any of the
what the creator of the PPT was trying to get across. This was a good exercise in forcing us to THINK
techniques published. It is not
and REASON. It brought our level of training on VIZIO products up from “Zero” to “Something” intended to replace Manufac-
even if we had to Do It Ourselves. Listening to the variety and depth of the suggestions being shouted
turer's Recommendations or
out proved that “ALL of us are smarter than ONE of us”. good Safety and Troubleshoot-
ing practices. Use at your own
The PPT held 122 slides, and we managed to cover the half devoted to VIZIO LCD products Risk. The Speaker, its Writers
before the hour grew late. Given the age of nesdaOHIOANS (Except for the nesdaOHIO Secretary) Many and Staff, and Nesda of Ohio
of them were already up past their bedtime. The half of the PPT containing PLASMA products may assume NO responsibility for
be a story for another time. President Bob Lowe brought down the gavel, closing the meeting at 9pm damage to persons or property
while we stood around polishing off the Desserts from dinner and waiting for the wives to return. as a result of any information
printed herein. Opinions stated
are those of the author and not
the Nesda of Ohio Newslet-
Wanna Join Nesda-Ohio ? ter. Opinions stated are be-
http://nesda-ohio.com/iwaynet/pubhtml/app1.html lieved to be true, and are offered
in the spirit of helping other
Or e-mail Ron Purkhiser, rpurkhis@tampabay.rr.com servicers but may have no basis
Or Tim Murtz, timexcel@msn.com in fact.
The color picture of Figure 3 in the Online Speaker shows the correct way to jig this chassis: the Red and Black wires of the
Horizontal on the two Outside pins, and the Yellow and Green Vertical wires on the two center pins. When it was connected thus, the
vertical sweep returned and everyone was happy – Most of all:
ME. If it wasn’t for that nice Howard Sams (I Love that Man)
putting out those fine Sams Photofacts I would have been faked
out of more than my shoes – I would have been Faked out of
my Thong!
www.pacparts.com
The Speaker April 2011 Page 5 Issue 118
The Speaker April 2011 Page 6 Issue 118
The Adventures of Sherlock Ohms
By: John H Watts-on MD
close to the surface of the circuit board. “Do you see it?” He con-
tinued. “There are two tiny leads protruding from that rubber disc
The Adventure – ‘Less I miss my guess, those are the remains of an Electrolytic
of the Capacitor that has blown apart.”
Maligned Magnavox
So they
It was a dark and were. Although
stormy night that found Sher- further scrutiny
lock Ohms, the world’s fore- disclosed some
most consulting detective, and small bits of
myself – Dr. John H.Watts-on paper from
locked against the winter storm into our rooms at 221B Baker within the ca-
Street. London doesn’t often suffer winter storms, but this one pacitor strewn
seems to have been transplanted by the Jet Stream from Cleveland, about the inte-
Ohio. We hear from our American cousins that they have had a rior of the cabi-
hard winter on that side of the Atlantic. Whatever the cause, The net, no trace of
windows in our flat were shut tight against the wind – and that also the body of the
sealed in the cloud of smoke being produced by the Abominable capacitor could
Shag Tobacco favored by my friend Sherlock Ohms. Why he ever be found.
“What a Revoltin’ C1625, D1619
chose those Weeds dipped in Camel Dung, I’ll never know but he
says that it stimulates his mental processes – and they were needed Development This
now as he hunched over the carcass of a 24” Magnavox TV/VCR/ is” said Ohms.
DVD Model MWC24T5B.
Ohms reached for his DVM and re-checked the diode, which Still did not measure short. “Now Watts-on,” he said as he clipped one end
of the diode. “One more clip-lead, if you please, and add a new diode to this mix. With both the diode and replacement capacitor
clipped firmly into place power was reapplied, and This time the product performed perfectly for an extended period.
Ohmigawd!!! Don’t even Suggest That ! What a horrible thing to have happen! Many us us carry our entire LIFE stored on our Thumb
Drive, those little memory sticks in which we can store anything electronic. In Mine, I have all the Powerpoints that I use for the class
that I teach, correspondence with friends and associates, a few schematic PDF’s, My Vacation Photos, Minutes from the nesdaOHIO
Meetings, Pictures of the nesdaOHIO Officers in compromising situations, so you can see that the loss of this little 4 giga-byte wonder
would be a Serious Blow to me. Howinnaworld would I Ever Get it Back?
Well, there’s a simple thing that you can do that might help you out. First, Cross your fingers that the Person who found it is Honest.
Second, That you have a file on there with your Contact information so that the
(Hope you didn’t lose it at a nesdaOHIO Meeting).
person who found it can give you a call. This is Real easy to do – so much so that even The Computer Illiterate can do it. Here’s the
steps:
In the next menu that pops up, Select the “CUSTOMIZE” Tab
(picture 2
2. Continued Page 11
SO, The hard part is over. You have an empty new folder sitting on your desktop,
with a star for the Icon, and a filename of “00 DID YOU FIND THIS DRIVE”. The next thing you have to do is put a phone number
in it so that the guy who finds your thumb-drive can call you. You DON’T want to put any personal information in there, like your
address (stalkers, Burglars, identity theives, you know) Just your Phone number so that the guy can call. We’re going to keep this Simple
and use “Notepad” – because maybe the guy doesn’t have “Word” or any other word processor program. A Notepad” file should be able
to be read by ANYONE.
4. Click the “START” Button at the bottom-left corner of your screen, Click
“RUN”, then type in “notepad”, and hit enter. The built-in Notepad that’s in
every computer will open (Bet you never used it before – didn’t even know it was
there, huh?) Type in words to this effect – Use Capital Letters: DID YOU
FIND THIS PORTABLE DRIVE? PLEASE CALL JOE SOPKO 216-381-
1140 THANK YOU
Naturally you would use your own name and phone number, but you get the
idea. If this drive was VERY important to you, like maybe you have your
entire Porn Collection on there, you might say “REWARD!”.
5. When you have your desired words typed in there, Click “File” in the Top-Left corner of Notepad, and select “SAVE AS” so
that you can type in the file name for this file of contact information and tell it to save it in your empty new folder with the star icon.
When you type in the filename, use CAPITAL LETTERS to type in “OWNERS CONTACT INFORMATION”, and notepad will
automatically save it as a .txt file that should be able to be read by anything.
So, Aint that Great? Some guy finds your lost drive, sticks it into his computer and the
directory comes up that looks like THIS with a Big Eye-Catching star at the top that says “DID
YOU FIND THIS DRIVE”… and when he clicks that he sees a file that says “OWNERS
CONTACT INFORMATION”. Hope he’s Honest enough to call.
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