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The 187 and 189 meters are their top-of-the-line and are probably
replacing
many of the 80 series. The 189 can log about 1000 readings internally -
that's the only difference between the two. They retail for almost $400
but
sometimes you will find them on eBay for half that. I jumped on the
auction
at that price for a 189, then sold my 18-month-old 187 to a friend for the
same amount.
However, there are also things to be said for a good old 260. Hopefully he
will end up with both !
Bob M.
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"Alan Harriman" <vtech@usol.com> wrote in message
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On 28 Jul 2003 18:50:28 -0700, captainvideo462002@yahoo.com (Lenny)
wrote:
My son who works with me in my electronics service business is
presently enrolled in an Electronics Technology course at the local
College. I introduced him to test equipment by getting him a used 260
and a new cheapo hand held digital from Harbor Freight, just so that
he could "get his feet wet". He's a hard worker, and a good boy and
now I would like to do something special for him. He has asked for a
Fluke portable meter with a case for his birthday.
The Fluke 87 III is an excellent meter. Especially useful is its peak
hold
feature, a must for troubleshooting shutdown circuits. They retail for
about
$350, but can often be found on ebay for $200 or less. See
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortPrope
rty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=fluke+87+III
Alan Harriman
Bias oscillator switching transistor is shorted collector-emitter , soA group I'm in just got a used full sized VHS camcorder.
It cosmetically looks great and seems to generally function (image in
viewfinder, tape moves as it should, seems to be working 100%) BUT when viewing
the tape it supposedly recorded on, there's nothing on the tape. Not static or
a black screen with an apparent tracking signal but NOTHING. It would appear as
if the tape was erased but nothing recorded. It was a used tape and indeed the
original signal had been wiped clean.
If I may assume for a moment that the camera WAS, indeed, in working condition
when it was shipped, what is likely wrong with it? Has anyone encountered a
problem similar to this before? Also importantly, can it be fixed reasonably
easily or should the group try to get its money back?
Please advise.
In any case, a sudden change in behavior isn't an adjustment.Have a Micronta M/N 22-191 multimeter that recently won't display zero only on
DC at the 2 volt selection or higher. The 200 mv scale is fine, as are all
scales of AC volts. The display shows between 0.100 - 0.500 volts, even when
the plus and minus leads are touched together. I have cleaned the PCB and
switches which helped for a short time. All diodes, resistors, batteries and
fuses check fine. All other functions work properly as well. Any other help
is appreciated.
Also, does anyone know what the 2 POT's are for? The manual doesn't go into
that detail. Thanks in advance.
So is a lot of things. I don't have to participate.Well digital TV is here to stay.
There'll be no fit here. It's been a number of years sinceThe public in general is going to have a fit when they are
told to junk all their equipment and buy NEW digital stuff.
Ship it to third-world countries so they can have a chance of building a societyWell digital TV is here to stay.
Question is.... What do we do with all those millions of
analog TV's, VCR's, Video Cameras and Analog video test
equipment.
I reckon you're right about the bios chip having failed. Did you try
removing the bios chip and carefully reseating it?
In future when this happens get a replacement bios chip from
www.badflash.com
Peter
"jakdedert" <jdedert@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Disconnect *everything* except for CPU & video! . If it won't POST
with
just CPU, mb, video and ps; something must be wrong with one of them.
Substitute each until you get POST.
If it does POST, keep reconnecting things--starting with RAM--until it
doesn't...BINGO!
jak
"Gary Tait" <taitg@hurontel.on.ca> wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:48:56 GMT, techno2nospam@videotron.ca (Doug
Taylor) wrote:
Well here goes a run down of a typical PC repair experience
for me....
A friend gives me his old PC Pentium 100 Mhz as it's not working.
As a challenge I decide to dig into to see whats wrong.
First, I set it up on the bench, remove the modem and sound card
and restart it with only video card to see if It will boot.. Blank
screen.
Then I sub out the video card and reboot... Blank screen.
Could be power supply, although seems to be getting power O.K.
to drives etc, check power plug motherboard with meter...O.K.
Sub out power supply anyways to be sure. ...blank screen.
Hummmmm whats next....
Sub out memory and re-seat.... no go.
Reseat CPU ..... nope............
Check out motherboard to make sure it is not shorted to bottom metal
plate.(happened once before on another system)
What's next.... motherboard or CPU....
Go out and buy used Pentium 125Mhz motherboard with CPU.
Sub CPU.... no go ....
Sub motherboard & CPU ....BINGO ... we got a winner......
Have to cut bigger hole in case for PS2 mouse & keyboard of new
motherboard as old motherboard had COM port mouse and DIN keyboard
plug.
Plan to put Linux on this system and use as a learning tool.
Question: Do you people have some constructive input into
the method I used to troubleshoot this system?
I'm kinda old(54) dyslexic & semi-retarded with bad eyesight,
but besides that I'm not a total idiot. 8*)
My conclusion is that the BIOS Rom failed.
What do you think?
Doug
Try disconnecting drives. Try a known working video card, or
that video card in a known working system. Same with other components.
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:48:33 -0400, A E <aeisenhut@videotron.ca
wrote:
Doug Taylor wrote:
Well digital TV is here to stay.
Question is.... What do we do with all those millions of
analog TV's, VCR's, Video Cameras and Analog video test
equipment.
Ship it to third-world countries so they can have a chance of building a
society
like ours was 40 years ago at least.
Beats trashing it.
Most 3rd world countries have substantial tariffs and taxes on the
import of test equipment making such donations difficult, especially
if they have a domestic electronics industry to protect. For example,
China has spent the last 2 years reducing their cut:
http://www.mac.doc.gov/China/Docs/industryfactsheets/scientificequipment.html
There are ways to do such donations, but they are complex.
Drivel/Rant: I recently demonstrated a VCD (not super-VCD) playback
on a common DVD/VCD/CD player (encoded from DV). I kept repeating the
"it's digital" mantra which automagically proclaimed to those watching
that this was in some way superior to analog. It was a little better
than horrible, but because the local analog CATV is full of RFI, the
digital cable is full of over-compression artifacts, and over the air
is full of ghosts (mountain area), they were unable to notice the poor
quality of the VCD. I don't think that anyone present had actually
ever seen a decent video picture. However, because it was "digital"
several viewers proclaimed the VCD to be superior in some
undescribable way.
It's also fun to take an analog VCR NTSC output and display it on an
HDTV screen (re-encoded to MPEG-2 on a computah) and proclaim that the
conversion to digital has somehow "improved" the picture. Duh.
I predict a small market servicing those neanderthals that consider
analog to be superior to (over-compressed) digital (as in the tube
audio fanatics). Perhaps one should save some of the analog test
equipment.
--
Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060
(831)421-6491 pgr (831)336-2558 home
http://www.LearnByDestroying.com AE6KS
jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us jeffl@cruzio.com
If cleaning the PCB and switches solved the problem previously, there may beHave a Micronta M/N 22-191 multimeter that recently won't display zero
only on
DC at the 2 volt selection or higher. The 200 mv scale is fine, as are all
scales of AC volts. The display shows between 0.100 - 0.500 volts, even
when
the plus and minus leads are touched together. I have cleaned the PCB and
switches which helped for a short time. All diodes, resistors, batteries
and
fuses check fine. All other functions work porperly as well. Any other
help
is appreciated.
Also, does anyone know what the 2 POT's are for? The manual doesn't go
into
that detail. Thanks in advance.
You may have checked this already but..............if it has aHave a Micronta M/N 22-191 multimeter that recently won't display zero only on
DC at the 2 volt selection or higher. The 200 mv scale is fine, as are all
scales of AC volts. The display shows between 0.100 - 0.500 volts, even when
the plus and minus leads are touched together. I have cleaned the PCB and
switches which helped for a short time. All diodes, resistors, batteries and
fuses check fine. All other functions work porperly as well. Any other help
is appreciated.
Also, does anyone know what the 2 POT's are for? The manual doesn't go into
that detail. Thanks in advance.
The actual TVs and VCRs will still work, as there will (hopefully) beWell digital TV is here to stay.
Question is.... What do we do with all those millions of
analog TV's, VCR's, Video Cameras and Analog video test
equipment.
....and with a major (?) niche market for manufacturers.On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 15:32:38 GMT, techno2nospam@videotron.ca (Doug
Taylor) wrote:
Well digital TV is here to stay.
Question is.... What do we do with all those millions of
analog TV's, VCR's, Video Cameras and Analog video test
equipment.
The actual TVs and VCRs will still work, as there will (hopefully) be
digital STB convertors with analog outputs cpmatible with old analog
TVs.
Try disconnecting any external devices you may have connected,Hello Group
My G3 Powerbook (bronze keyboard, 400MHz) no longer recognizes any
Firewire devices connected to it or even the CD-ROM drive. Even worse,
the trackpad has stopped working: thankfully, it still recognises USB
devices, so I can at least control it with a mouse.
These problems built up over a month - first the CD-ROM, then the
Firewire, then the trackpad - so I'm hoping that it's a software
problem.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks
David
The complaint on this set was that sometimes it would work for a brief
time and then sometimes it would stay on for around 20 minutes. I
resoldered anything that looked suspicious and tried it. It will power
up and after about 10 seconds the picture will shrink in from all 4
sides and the set will quit. There is hardly enough time to decide
what to look at before this occurs. Does anyone have any information
on this set with this symptom? Thanks, Lenny Stein, Barlen
Electronics.
Hi - I have a 27" Toshiba TV that is having some volume problems. It
fluctuates between playing kinda soft, to normal, constantly. Now that I'm
writing this - I think that it might be possible that perhaps just one
speaker is turning on/off. But I'm not sure just yet. So - where do you
think the problem is?
Just my two cents:A friend gives me his old PC Pentium 100 Mhz as it's not working.
As a challenge I decide to dig into to see whats wrong.
Most 3rd world countries have substantial tariffs and taxes on theDoug Taylor wrote:
Well digital TV is here to stay.
Question is.... What do we do with all those millions of
analog TV's, VCR's, Video Cameras and Analog video test
equipment.
Ship it to third-world countries so they can have a chance of building a society
like ours was 40 years ago at least.
Beats trashing it.