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  1. KilgoreCemetery

    Help identify a resistor without bands

    Ah, I wondered if it was going to have some safety specs with it. The replacement I ordered was listed as "Flame Retardant Coating, Safety". It's a 3W and very similar in size to the original. Hopefully that covers it :eek: No other writing. Just the same thing printed three different times
  2. KilgoreCemetery

    Help identify a resistor without bands

    I knew the J stood for something, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what. Thanks, Harald! Thanks for the info, Kelly! What do you mean by offers?
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    Help identify a resistor without bands

    Could somebody please help me identify some specifics about this resistor? I know that it's 0.1 Ohms, but is it wirewound or metal oxide? Is it fire resistant or water proof? That sort of stuff. If it helps, it's pulled from a Rockford Fosgate T8004 amplifier and was located just in front of...
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    Sharp LCD TV Slow Refresh Rate

    I'm looking at this TV for a friend of mine. It's a Sharp LCD 42" TV LC-42SB45U and on about a third of the screen the colors take forever to fade. They just layer on top of each other. To make a long story short, I took off the back cover, powered on the TV and was able to correct the issue...
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    Optimus CD-7200 Missing Lens

    Yeah.. I was hoping someone would just say "Sure! All CD player lenses are identical!", but if that's not the case then isle figure out a different way to fix it. I don't think filling the spot with super glue is quite what I'm after
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    Optimus CD-7200 Missing Lens

    I'd have to really look to see if there's a part number specific to the assembly, but I have searched for the assembly based on the model number of the CD player itself with no luck. Here's hoping for an assembly number
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    Optimus CD-7200 Missing Lens

    The title pretty much says it all. Someone gave me an Optimus CD-7200 Six-disc changer saying that it wouldn't read discs. I tried cleaning it with no luck and eventually took it apart for a visual inspection. Upon removing the pickup section, I realized that the lens was missing. I've checked...
  8. KilgoreCemetery

    Onkyo Integrated Amp With Incredibly Low Volume

    Turns out the selector pin in the back of the switch wiggled loose. Turning the knob wasn't actually switching between anything despite the nice clicks of the detents.
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    Onkyo Integrated Amp With Incredibly Low Volume

    Thanks again, dorke (I intend that to be way nicer than it sounds). I went ahead and build a gadget for inspecting and started tracing the input signal. Seems it doesn't make it past the selector switch. I'm about to do a little disassembly to determine why
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    Onkyo Integrated Amp With Incredibly Low Volume

    I've tried running the source signal (in this case, my laptop) through a different amp, but didn't have any way to test it throughout the Onkyo. Just watched the videos, dorke. Gonna see if I have a capacitor that would do the trick.
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    Onkyo Integrated Amp With Incredibly Low Volume

    I have an Onkyo A-5 integrated home stereo amp that I was using up until about a week ago when the volume dropped to almost nothing. I feel I need to stress the "almost" part. With the volume knob maxed out you can hear music playing, but it's whisper quiet and seems to affect both channels...
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    Making bad audio better

    One question that has been plaguing me lately is what exactly makes an amp or receiver good? How much audio quality is gained or lost based on the overall design vs the components chosen? To put it another way, how much can you improve a poor amplifier just by swapping out components? Would you...
  13. KilgoreCemetery

    Finding the right switch

    That's an interesting idea. I may have to look into that
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    Is it possible to replace a single speaker with an aux port?

    I'd love to have a nice tube amp though!
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    Is it possible to replace a single speaker with an aux port?

    I know, Dave, it's silly, but the heart wants what the heart wants. That, and figuring out how/where to put in a higher quality tuner and amp sounds like more work than I'm wanting to do. I don't know enough about amps or tuners to build them myself and I only have about a 9 x 9 x 3 space to...
  16. KilgoreCemetery

    Is it possible to replace a single speaker with an aux port?

    Yeah, "Vintage" might be a bit much, but it's not the sort of thing that you can go out and buy new now days. This one's not particularly valuable. I picked it up for $5
  17. KilgoreCemetery

    Is it possible to replace a single speaker with an aux port?

    Thanks, Adam. It seemed like it wouldn't be any different than hooking an iPhone up to a car stereo, but I felt like I was over-looking something. I'm aiming for the 1VAC, Dave. This may be a vintage unit, but it's not what I would call quality. However, the AM/FM works just fine. If I can...
  18. KilgoreCemetery

    Finding the right switch

    I guess the real question is how would they be categorized? Are they SPST Push/Push? SPDT? DPDT? I don't quite understand what the different designations mean in practice. I know the original switch is just a simple SPST though. I just need one that adds the push/push feature
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    Finding the right switch

    It seems like if there is such a thing, it must be used in something out of the ordinary. I was thinking maybe a guitar pedal where you would rotate it to adjust the tone or something, but then step on it to turn it on and off. I'm not sure that that is how they actually work, though, and I live...
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    Is it possible to replace a single speaker with an aux port?

    This is a vintage Sony 8F-11W. It doesn't have any sort of extra inputs or outputs naturally, just a button to switch between AM and FM. I just want to output the signal from the original unit into something else via an Aux cable
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