22 Feb
2012
22 Feb
'12
9:53 p.m.
Well, not very good, I'm afraid, since I have an
unsteady hand. I guess that's not an excuse, and
as you said it's a matter of practise. But to be
honest, I haven't been interested in electronics
before and I have been lazy to try, since I know
someone who I usually ask to do the soldering for
me (I do other kind things for him in exchange).
Can you ask this friend to kelp you wit hte monitors?
it is likely
that English is not your native
language, in which case I envy you your
competence in a second language. Your English
is much better than my French, French being my
second-best language.)
Oh, thank you. Indeed English isn't my native language, and unfortunately I didn't studied it
at
School or High School, but I learnt it as an adult
when I needed it. I like languages, though, and I
spend a good deal of time in perfecting my English
(perhaps I should use some of it to get some
electronics skills, hehe).
You are clearly capable of learnign things if yoy are interested in doing
so. I would suggest that if you want to learn electronic fualtfinding nad
repair skills that you would eb able to do that, but you might not want
to. Ulitmately it is up to you, it's your device and your time.
Personally I love puzzles and I love fixing things. So I enjoy figuring
out how somethign should work so I can repair it. I enjoy learnign new
skills too (I taught myself -- correction 'am teaching myself', becuase
it's a never-ending process -- how to use an engineer's lathe so I could
make meachanical parts for classic computers, etc.
But as I said, that's me, you are diffetent. What you enjou is probably
not what I enjoy,. So it is up to you. If you want to have a go, we can
help you along the way. If you don't, that's fine too.
[...]
Fixing a
monitor...tony may shudder, but I
LOL. I'm sure he will. By the way, Tony is one
of the guys a envy the most. I really enjoy reading hist posts about fixing and using cool
pieces of equipment. I think he's also a kind of
"walking encyclopedia". :-)
Hmmmm.. You do relaise I have plenty of useful books alongside me here :-).
One other thing. I've been doing this, as I said, for newarly 30 years.
In that time I've meade a lot of mistakes nad had to put them right. I've
put porjects aside, only to come back to them months or years later when
I've learnt a new skill, got soem more information, and so on. And of
course I still make mistakes
If you never make a mistake, it means you're not doing anything.
It'd be great if that was the case. Or if I was
in London and I could bother Tony with that in
Or turn up with it at a London HPCC meeting.... Stranger things have
happened :-)
_If_ I had the service manual for this monitor -- and I don't -- I might
be able to suggest smoe mroe explicit tests (of the type 'Unplug connctor
J3 from the PSU board and check for continuity between pins 1 and 3 and
then between pins 2 nd 4 with the power swiutch turned on. If that's OK,
then chck resisotr R17 (should be 100k) on the PSU board'. Note : Those
are all made up tests, they do not apply to your monitor). But I don;t
haev that manual. If I had the monitor in front of me, I might be able ot
wuickly figure out some liklely things to test, but again I don't. Hmm....
-tony