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  1. tedstruk

    Why my meter has a beeper?

    I am attempting to build a portable electric lap steel guitar, and I found a nice set of electronics out of a hybrid battery/AC boom box. One of the speakers is nice and small, and will be perfect for my portable guitar. I tested it with my VOM which I had accidentally put on "BEEPER" or...
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    Electric Guitar Amp Circuit Check

    Will this work as an amp for a electric simple guitar?
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    Port On The Back Of Automotive Oscilloscope

    I bought a new 1080 oscilloscope, online, and when it arrived it has a banana plug port on the back that wasn't in any of the pictures. can anyone tell me what this port is for and what signal or equipment is supposed to hook up to it? Is it a function port? or a single input, or a driver...
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    schematic and wiring diagram for Magnavox MWR10D6

    This is a DVD recorder. Sept 2006. Appears to have power, but the power light doesn't light, and it is dead to the user. There are over 73 AC volts from the main power fuse to AV output grounds.
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    41 volts in my DVD's AV output jack ground.

    The Magnavox DVD recorder is dead. no power on. Not the fuse or the plug, and there are 41 volts between my 110, and my AV output at the ground. Where should I look for problems>? wanna guess?
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    Getting from circuits to data.

    what do I need to study?
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    Check My Bass Guitar Schematic?

    I think this will work, but I wanted your ohpinyun...
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    Motor doesn't work

    Not to ruin the converse, but I have a question. I bought a greenhouse watering system that is solar charged and times at multiple intervals from 1min every 3 hrs to 30 min every 3 hrs. Timer plays for 3hrs. The motor isn't running that pumps the water. I opened the case, and found an...
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    Guitar Dilemna

    I bought one of those DIY bass guitar kits off the auction site. It came with instructions on how to wire it, and when i did, I was not happy with the response of the controls, so I rewired it like a download sheet I got off of one of the guitar pickup manufacturers. It worked better, but the...
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    Merry Christmas

    There once was a fat santa clause who couldn't get his Harley started. So like all great santas, he called his replacement. "It just won't start, he told his replacement" and the replacement said..."did you try and push start it?" he replied no, and jumped on his machine coasting down the...
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    Solid State.

    when I was a kid, solid state was all the rage. The truth is that by building circuits that only do what they are supposed to, they discovered all the hacks that, well... hackers, had been doing to make systems function only one way. When they put a solid state device in a consumer product...
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    vocal changing circuit

    I am a really bad singer and I need some electronics to make me OK. I would like to make a simple vocal doubling circuit, on one switch, and a depth reverb on the another switch so I can use one or both at the same time. do you guys have a couple schematics of these circuits, that I could look...
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    Electric Guitar Guts

    I was a disco rhythm guitarist, and my guitars are stuck with either a really rumbly bass thump thump, or a really tinny twang twang sound. I have tried caps of different sizes in a switched unit, I have tried series and parallel pot wiring, and they all put out sound, but for one reason or...
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    1983 Yamaha Venture Royales' TCI Schematic

    I thought I would toss in that I need a schematic for a 1983 Yamaha Venture Royales' TCI made by Hitachi Ltd. So if anyone sees Santa Claus, or any of his freinds family or elves, you might tell them that this is really hard to find. thanks for all your help though! and Happy new year!
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    PC power supply fail after power a power outage

    I have a strong running Dell small factor desktop power supply that went through a power outage and now the fan doesn't run and the PC won't turn on. So I pulled it out, it's a 250w BEST and SATA in a long box... this is my first SATA repair, and as I would assume it is probably not much...
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    A good cheap EPROM programmer

    Which EPROM programmer is the best buy, and has the most options?
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    running the hantek 1008c

    I think I am starting to get the hang of this sckilloscrap thingy... setting the controls wrong makes it impossible to understand nuthin,
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    Question about scopes

    I have not used a scope much. Just this one time! I think I know what I did wrong, but I wanted to see if anyone had anything to add er sum. I am reading the field coils on my bikes flywheel that signal the ignition module where TDC(top dead center) in the firing sequence. The signal I got...
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    need Schematic for Hitachi Ltd. TCI

    Transistor Controlled Ingnition Type TID 12-17 26h-10 This is off a 1983 Yamaha Venture Royale XVZ12TDK The same unit might be used on the 1984 1200 VMAX too.
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    rpm counter

    I was told that all LED displays are primarily the same, and as long as I have the processor that fires its display, that I cold use it to build a signal counter. I want to build a signal counter to count field coil pulses from a crank shaft. but the stuff I have to build it with is "state of...
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