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Re: [OM] Return of the Native (monitor)

Subject: Re: [OM] Return of the Native (monitor)
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:28:13 +1000 (GMT+10:00)
>
>So it's off the the wild world of internet geeks, bless them, to search 
>'Samsung 226BW flicker'. 
>Turns out is is a notorious problem with this huge selling model, which is one 
>reason I'm posting 
>about it here. Likely more than one of us has one.
>
>Several technically awful, but highly informative, YouTube videos later, I 
>knew exactly what was 
>likely wrong and how to disassemble it without trial and error. Disassemble 
>(easy), confirm and 
>remove puffed up capacitors, (and the others of the same brand and type), 
>remove, trip to the 
>electronics store*, replace, reassemble, and all is as it should be again.
>
>I also re-calibrated, but see no obvious difference.
>
>I Can See Again Moose
>
>* We are so lucky here. The old fashioned electronics store started by the 
>sainted Al Lasher 
>("Flasher's, in the old days) is still being run by his now gray haired 
>children. A truly amazing 
>hodge-podge of electronics trivia, ephemera, old and rare, along with a huge 
>selection of current 
>parts, tools, etc.
>

     Nice job, and lucky you for having a decent source for electronic parts.  
All I have here is "Circuit Specialists" and a scrap dealer.  Can't complain, 
though, as I've been around since vacuum tubes and can design with just about 
anything that's available.

     And that **IS** the real Hokey-Pokey.


Chris
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