Toshiba TV29C90 problem; Image fades to black...

[Don Bowey]

On 7/5/08 2:23 PM, in article
jaqdnbX6l-DOe_LVnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@earthlink.com, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:

On Jul 3, 7:17 pm, UCLAN <nom...@thanks.org> wrote:
Raymond Wiker wrote:
It was clearly labelled OFF-TOPIC and it is all true.

Since when is it OK to post ANYTHING on ANY Usenet newsgroup
as long as it is labeled [correct spelling] as OFF-TOPIC?

Since when was not "labelled" a correct, alternative spelling
of "labeled"?

It is recognized as mainly a British spelling.

And therefore the correct English language spelling. Take note, for
the next time you want to 'correct' already-correct spelling: America
is not the centre of the universe.


No, but looks more and more like the UK wants to be the asshole of
the universe.

I just went outside and looked again, and America sure is the center (not
centre) of the universe. You folks are way over yonder somewhere.

 

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Don Bowey <dbowey@comcast.net> writes:

I just went outside and looked again, and America sure is the center (not
centre) of the universe. You folks are way over yonder somewhere.

Of course.
United States of America is the center of the univers.
United Kingdom is the centre of the universe.
China is the Zonk of the universe.
etc.

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
Grace personified,
I leap into the window.
I meant to do that.

 

[UCLAN]

Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:

And therefore the correct English language spelling. Take note, for
the next time you want to 'correct' already-correct spelling: America
is not the centre of the universe.

....center...

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:

Don Bowey <dbowey@comcast.net> writes:
I just went outside and looked again, and America sure is the center (not
centre) of the universe. You folks are way over yonder somewhere.

Of course.
United States of America is the center of the univers.
United Kingdom is the centre of the universe.
China is the Zonk of the universe.
etc.

No, you 'Brits' use extra 'u's and 'e's because you're love to kiss
the French on their assholes. That isn't hard to do, though.

If you had any brains and research skills you would discover that
your spelling used to mach the US, before you let the French borg your
native tongue.

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If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in
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Sporadic E is the Earth's aluminum foil beanie for the 'global warming'
sheep.

 

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

On Jul 5, 10:23 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:

On Jul 3, 7:17 pm, UCLAN <nom...@thanks.org> wrote:
Raymond Wiker wrote:
It was clearly labelled OFF-TOPIC and it is all true.

Since when is it OK to post ANYTHING on ANY Usenet newsgroup
as long as it is labeled [correct spelling] as OFF-TOPIC?

   Since when was not "labelled" a correct, alternative spelling
of "labeled"?

It is recognized as mainly a British spelling.

And therefore the correct English language spelling. Take note, for
the next time you want to 'correct' already-correct spelling: America
is not the centre of the universe.

   No, but looks more and more like the UK wants to be the asshole of
the universe.

Fine by me, I'm not from the UK; I just speak English.

 

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

On Jul 6, 6:26 am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:

Don Bowey <dbo...@comcast.net> writes:
I just went outside and looked again, and America sure is the center (not
centre) of the universe.  You folks are way over yonder somewhere.

Of course.
United States of America is the center of the univers.
United Kingdom is the centre of the universe.
China is the Zonk of the universe.
etc.

   No, you 'Brits' use extra 'u's and 'e's because you're love to kiss
the French on their assholes.  That isn't hard to do, though.

That's interesting; I'd never heard before that part of English
spelling was an imitation of French. You learn something new every
day.

   If you had any brains and research skills you would discover that
your spelling used to mach the US, before you let the French borg your
native tongue.

This is where your own brains and research skills fail you. English
spelling DID NOT match the US before the French "borged" it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English#Differences_between_British_English_and_American_English

"Differences in orthography are also trivial. Some of the forms that
now serve to distinguish American from British spelling (color for
colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller, etc.) were
introduced by Noah Webster himself; others are due to spelling
tendencies in Britain from the 17th century until the present day
(e.g. -ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful,
chequered for checkered, etc.), in some cases favored by the
francophile tastes of 19th century Victorian England, which had little
effect on AmE."

Part of the differences are, as you attributed, due to French arse/ass-
kissing, but another part (including, it seems, the labelled/labeled
change) were introduced formally by Webster in his first American
English dictionary.
So get your own facts straight, if you don't want to come off sounding
like an arrogant dick (which so far, you do).

 

[Eeyore]

UCLAN wrote:

Since when is it OK to post ANYTHING on ANY Usenet newsgroup
as long as it is labeled [correct spelling]

Not in my country.

as OFF-TOPIC?

It's regular practice; to elicit a response from posters you know might have
interesting views on the matter amd for informative (or even joke) purposes.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Raymond Wiker wrote:

UCLAN <nomail@thanks.org> writes:

Greg Carr wrote:

It was clearly labelled OFF-TOPIC and it is all true.

Since when is it OK to post ANYTHING on ANY Usenet newsgroup
as long as it is labeled [correct spelling] as OFF-TOPIC?

Since when was not "labelled" a correct, alternative spelling
of "labeled"?

Ah we have the cross-pond spelling problem.

Suggest checking for your country's regionally approved speliing.

Dictionary.com shows BOTH spellings.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/labelled

Graham

 

[UCLAN]

Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:

Fine by me, I'm not from the UK; I just speak English.

Really? Your IP says you're in Ireland. You speak *weird*!

 

[UCLAN]

Eeyore wrote:

Since when is it OK to post ANYTHING on ANY Usenet newsgroup
as long as it is labeled [correct spelling]

Not in my country.

as OFF-TOPIC?

It's regular practice; to elicit a response from posters you know might have
interesting views on the matter amd for informative (or even joke) purposes.

Graham

It has *become* a semi-regular practice, unfortunately. That doesn't make it
correct, or OK.

And in what country is "amd" a word? [You can bet Intel would like to nuke
*that* country.]

 

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

On Jul 6, 7:04 pm, UCLAN <nom...@thanks.org> wrote:

Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:
Fine by me, I'm not from the UK; I just speak English.

Really? Your IP says you're in Ireland.

That's correct - I'm from Ireland, which is not the UK.

You speak *weird*!

I try to stay away from globally scoped *weird*, but it's not always
possible...

 

[Chris Barts]

Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> writes:

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:16:32 +0100, "Fleetie"
fleetie@fleetie.demon.co.uk> put finger to keyboard and composed:

Bloody hell!

It's an English vs. American English thing.

English uses "labelled", and is of course the correct one.


Martin

I was recently watching a spelling bee on TV. It occurred to me that
such a contest must seem very silly to those viewers whose mother
tongue is phonetic, as all languages should be. English could have
become phonetic many centuries ago, when the language came under
formal review

This never happened, and I'm not entirely clear on what you mean
here. What is 'formal review' in this context? Who was doing the
reviewing? What authority did they have?

, but the traditionalists triumphed over the
phoneticists,

No, there were no such camps. There have been various attempts to
reform English orthography championed by people such as Noah Webster,
Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw, and others, but none of them
have caught on among the great majority of people who use the
language.

so we are stuck with a stupid, inconsistent system of
spelling. In a lot of ways American revisionism makes sense, eg
"color" instead of "colour", but I don't understand how "arse" became
"ass",

I don't think 'arse' and 'ass' are pronounced the same way.

or why Americans say "off of" when "off" will suffice.

I say "Get off the boat." and "Get the sticker off the book." and I'm
an American born and raised. I think you're confusing a habit of some
Americans (some of the time) with a habit of all Americans all of the
time.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:47:02 -0600, Chris Barts
<chbarts+usenet@gmail.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> writes:

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:16:32 +0100, "Fleetie"
fleetie@fleetie.demon.co.uk> put finger to keyboard and composed:

Bloody hell!

It's an English vs. American English thing.

English uses "labelled", and is of course the correct one.


Martin

I was recently watching a spelling bee on TV. It occurred to me that
such a contest must seem very silly to those viewers whose mother
tongue is phonetic, as all languages should be. English could have
become phonetic many centuries ago, when the language came under
formal review

This never happened, and I'm not entirely clear on what you mean
here. What is 'formal review' in this context? Who was doing the
reviewing? What authority did they have?

, but the traditionalists triumphed over the
phoneticists,

No, there were no such camps. There have been various attempts to
reform English orthography championed by people such as Noah Webster,
Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw, and others, but none of them
have caught on among the great majority of people who use the
language.

Last year I watched an episode of Melvin Bragg's History of English on
SBS TV in Australia. The narrator spoke of a period in the history of
the language where there existed several different spellings for the
one word (eg kirk, church, churche, cherche, chyrch, etc). Primarily
for legal reasons, there was an attempt at standardisation by
"traditionalists" in one camp and proponents of phonetics in another.
Unfortunately the traditionalists prevailed. IIRC this occurred around
the time when Wycliffe translated the Bible into English. I can't find
any definitive Google references, though.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

 

[Bill]

Franc Zabkar wrote:

Last year I watched an episode of Melvin Bragg's History of English on
SBS TV in Australia. The narrator spoke of a period in the history of
the language where there existed several different spellings for the
one word (eg kirk, church, churche, cherche, chyrch, etc). Primarily
for legal reasons, there was an attempt at standardisation by
"traditionalists" in one camp and proponents of phonetics in another.
Unfortunately the traditionalists prevailed. IIRC this occurred around
the time when Wycliffe translated the Bible into English. I can't find
any definitive Google references, though.

- Franc Zabkar

Get done with this, there is also the Australian brand of English just
as there deep south English in the states. You can't make a war out of
nothing.
Bill Baka

 

Indeed, it was the two screws on the bottom. Thanks all!

 

[terry]

On Jul 23, 7:35 am, "Brenda Ann" <bren...@shinbiro.com> wrote:

"N_Cook" <dive...@tcp.co.uk> wrote in message

news:g66s5p$lk4$1@registered.motzarella.org...

No user switchable option. I can see its possible to rewire the vibrator
so
you still get right polarity for the anode supplies. Heaters presumably
happy enough powered the other way round but how to change the biasing of
the valves ?

Unless it's a synchronous vibrator, it should run equally well on either
polarity. The radio doesn't get anode voltage from the car's DC, it gets it
from the radio's DC-DC converter (vibrator, transformer, rectifier,
filtering).

Sounds right. But as not in this posting, do recall at least one 12
volt European car radio of the 1950s that had a polarity plug that had
to be placed in the correct position. But reading this now can't think
why that was necessary! Maybe they were synchronous vibrators or
something.

BTW not pertinent to this posting but have operate an item of 6 volt
DC w. vibrator gear by feeding in 6.3 volts AC from a radio, removing
the vibrator and strapping one half of the input winding of vibrator
transf. to the supply. So instead of alternatec pulses of DC to each
half of the CT input winding, we had 6.3v 60 hertz AC constantly to
half the winding.

Don't understand the biasing question?

 

[Ken G.]

I dont think its the rubber breaking down . I have seen many remotes dry
as a dry bone . Many older remotes that were never used dont do this .

Here at my house the only remote that did that was the one i used to
hold i my hand alot . After i cleaned it and stopped holding it the goo
stopped .
I believe its somehow oils from the hands that get drawn in somehow .

I also found a good way to fix those remotes where the rubber pads
inside loose their conductivity .
Clean it real good . Smear a thin coat of auto emblem adhesive on the
pad .

Take a motor brush and scrape it with a knife to make powder on
something then push and smear the glue coated pad into the dust .
This might be old news ?? but it works pretty good .

 

[R. LaCasse]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:55:44 -0700, R. LaCasse <scooter@yamaha.info> wrote:

|>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:25:29 -0700, R. LaCasse <yamaha@majesty.info> wrote:
|>
|>|> Hi!
|>|>
|>|> I wrecked the Black BOX (speaker) on my old model Gorilla Alarm
|>|>Part# 6007, and I wuz wondering if anybody was upgrading to the Gorilla
|>|>Alarm #7007+, and might have a broken old model 6007 Gorilla Alarm for sale,
|>|>with the BOX/Speaker intact/working........
|>
|>
|>
|> I tried a different adjustable 7-->16volt Vetter motorcycle alarm
|>buzzer that runs with some minimal 200ma but there was nothing but a click,
|>despite adjustments, the Gorilla Piezo Circuit didn't fizz on it.....
|>
|> I re-installed the alarm with the external terminals where the
|>original Gorilla Piezo Box/Siren were nipped/re-routed, and after figuring
|>out with the led codes, if the alarm was engaged or not, I tried to take a
|>DCV reading across when the external terminals and I couldn't get any
|>readings at all for volts or ma, so I tried the ACV and got all sorts of
|>erratic readings which I sometimes multiply by 2x for a DCV evaluation when
|>readings are too low.
|>
|> The DVM Voltmeter was working properly, and I was getting shocks
|>when the Alarm was activated or not, so I can't figure out the Gorilla
|>Piezo's Diaphragm transducer<-->oscillator interaction that causes the lack
|>of a DCV reading....
|>
|> So in effect I'm not sure what rating of Piezo to get to replace the
|>original gorilla box/case siren....
|>
|>
|>1) I need the DCV and DCA rating of a compatible (replacement) siren
|>or
|>2) I need the HERTZ rating of the (replacement) siren
|>
|>
|>
|> Would this be in the right country....I mean, would it work?
|>
|>RS Micro Piezo Buzzer 273-0074:
|>
|>Specification is applied to the micro piezo buzzer used in alarm systems.
|>
|>Operating Frequency: ..................................... 4200 +/- 500 Hz
|>Operating Voltage: ............................................ 3 - 16 VDC
|>Rated Voltage: .................................................... 12 VDC
|>Current Consumption: .......................... 7.0 MA (maximum) at 12 VDC
|>Sound Pressure Level: ................... 70 dB (minimum) at 12 VDC, 30 cm
|>Dimensions: ...................................... 7.5 Deep x 13.8 mm Wide
|>
|>http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=buzzer&origkw=buzzer&sr=1

I got a temporary hi squeal 80Db 1" Piezo that works for $5 and
installed it outside the scooter, rather than partially obstructed insides..

There are tons of alarms out there, even Talking Alarms with
Proximity sensors and the works like a good remote pager, all going for
anywhere from $36 to a (like the LM 508 and clones.....) or a simpler
Scorpio/G-Force $700....

The most useless thing I think is a remote starter systems, and the
flashing lights can bleed the battery pretty good.......as if the proximity
isn't.....

Then there's the who want's to cut into harnesses to get a desired
effect that might cripple your ECU/ECM......it's a bit scary unless you take
a deep breath and study the combination your getting into.....

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:39:13 -0400, "Michael Kennedy"
<mike@nospam.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

"Chrisroberts7577" <chrisroberts7577@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e0fe2364-0049-47f5-9912-f92b04b58e9d@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
I need help getting help, finding a replacement board, or even finding
the schematic for an AOC (A42HD84) Plasma tv. I believe the main
power supply board (Samsung, LJ44-00092C) is the problem.

When I got the TV there was a blown fuse on the board. See some pics
of the board here: http://chrisroberts7577.googlepages.com/plasmarepair

When the board gets power there is only one voltage correctly present,
all others are non-existent.

Any help or guidance anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.


The picture you posted doesn't look like a burnt out fuse. It loooks more
like an electrolytic capacitor that exploded. What does the board say in the
area where you removed this component.

Mike

I thought the red component in this pic ...
http://chrisroberts7577.googlepages.com/IMG_3011.jpg/IMG_3011-full;init:.jpg

.... looked like one of these time delay fuses:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021016114001/http://www.cooperet.com/pdfs_html/ETF_Specs.PDF

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

 

[Blattus Slafaly]

Spamm Trappe wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:10:58 -0400, Blattus Slafaly wrote:
What's that green shit in the URL on secure sites?
I never saw an explanation of it.

So... you were putzing around with your browser and saw some "green
shit" (did you sniff it?) and then fired up your usenet client and
decided that going to *sci.electronics.repair* was the best and most
appropriate place to ask about it?

I know --- rhetorical question.

'I don't know' is much shorter more direct answer.

--
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