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    The official Xmas/holiday thread 2025

    May all who read this have a Blessed Christmas and a great New Year!
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    Clumsy me! Broken USB headset

    I accidentally pulled the cable connected to the stereo headset and microphone from the PCB that has the Volume and Mute function (in which the USB A cable is attached) The headset cable has a green, a red, a red/green, a blue, and a bare copper wire (which I am assuming is ground) The PCB...
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    Star Trek

    As a kid I enjoyed watching those train wrecks, now seeing them in sequence I'm disappointed that it was the same crash each time....
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    Help with kitchen receptacle

    If you are using 3 GFIC outlets for this don't! Only the outlet closest to the breaker box (electrically, not physically) needs to be GFIC. Then "daisy chain" the remaining outlets to the the GFIC. By daisy chain, I mean you connect the wires to the next outlet to the downstream screw...
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    Stone Dead Laptop

    You might find a (used) replacement motherboard for it online. A few years ago, I found one for my ThinkPad R400 for ~$25 at Walmart.com (of all places!).
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    What are these connectors called?

    I'm not having much luck with what I planted in my gardens, some luck, not much. I was hoping to not have to buy seedlings this year, but I may end up having to, if I want to have a decent harvest.
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    Introduction

    I've enjoyed some of the music you've written!
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    Government disclosure of UFO info tonight

    Whenever I hear his name, I am reminded of the Cheech and Chong skit with Horrendo Revolver!
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    Coronavirus transmission prevention device.

    So, Disney was evil even way back then! B^)
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    "Similar Threads"

    I had a "movement" earlier, does that count? B^)
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    my busted psu

    Do I see a bulge on R101? (lower center of photo) I don't see an R101 listed in the schematic you posted...
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    How do I determine if an RF signal is transmitting? Re: Weather station

    @Harold Kapp, Not pairing like in Bluetooth, where a code must be entered for the connection to complete. Usually, the remote sensor (temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Rainfall, etc.) needs to be powered up first and when the base station is powered up, it will connect to any...
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    How do I determine if an RF signal is transmitting? Re: Weather station

    I dug out a couple of my older weather stations this past week and installed batteries in the base units and remote sensors. None of the base stations show connection with the sensors. As the highest frequency my o-scope can read is 125 MHz, and the sensors xmit in the the 400 and 900 MHz...
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    my busted psu

    You could take multiple photos, each covering a portion of the circuit board, then a decreased resolution would not have as much effect on the 300kb limit.
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    Book Reviews

    I got a chuckle out of seeing 3 Horror Fraught DVMs on the cover! (I think I have 14 of those at last count!)
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