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    Whirlpool L1373 - damage possibly done by a centipede

    That doesn't necessarily MEAN the pressure switch failed. It just means your control board is convinced the pressure switch failed. I'd be believing the control board is generating erroneous signals because of circuit damage from the bug. The board is probably convinced something failed that...
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    Calibration of temperature sensor

    I looked at the company website, I'd contact them directly to ask technical questions about your specific requirement. As near as I can tell from your description, you're wondering why there are two presets. I'd use the company 'contact' selection to ask specifically about your requirement, but...
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    Help identifying IC

    Google the data sheets on each type. Typically the suffix has an indication lettering for the package type. That will be spelled-out on the data sheet. The other letters will also be demystified on the data sheet. Could be operating temperature ranges, or minor variations in the specs.
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    Pressure plate style sensor

    Yes, it makes sense to me. Hopefully you'll get some suggestions from others here on signaling systems for your application. If I was looking at this project, I'd be asking the following questions about the trip-signal itself: 1) Does the pressure plate actually move measurably when the salt...
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    Health Care is so damn expensive...

    How many bureaucrats do you figure there are in your health care system, compared to the one CEO of your electrical system? NOW, add-up the cost. There are about 36 million people in Canada 24 million in Australia and 4 1/2 million in New Zealand. All of those countries notice the expense of...
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    Health Care is so damn expensive...

    When the government gets involved in anything, people don't realize that a large percentage of the monies people pay is to the bureaucratic system RUNNING the operation. That's one added expense. As noted in the above posts, bad doctors/malpractice insurance is another mitigating factor that...
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    Pressure plate style sensor

    You didn't specify your application. Is this something that the pressure varies with until a final pressure release point is reached, or something that is mechanically static, and the pressure will only change when some release point is reached? If it's a physically static situation, I'd just...
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    Resistor Pick Question

    If it wasn't a typo, I'd heed 73's de Edd's advice. (ohm vs kohm) As to 'tolerance' itself when you have the resistor actual value in front of you: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? How do you think they get 1% or 25% tolerance resistors? If their product run is within 1% they mark 'em that way, and if...
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    Whirlpool L1373 - damage possibly done by a centipede

    You'd have to find somebody with a schematic to point you in the right direction. I'd start with that 8-Pin IC near the tail of the centipede that looks to have taken a hit. You don't have a problem with your washing machine, you have a problem with the control board, and nobody can tell from...
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    Whirlpool L1373 - damage possibly done by a centipede

    I'd de-bug your board, then make a pretty good bet that the centipede shorted some of your components.
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    Resistor Pick Question

    What's your application? The composition of the resistor comes into play here, unless this is a theoretical question for school.
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    Motorcycle Electrical System Resistor

    I don't know anything about motorcycles, but your electrical system description sounds a lot like the one on an old 1977 Dodge van I had. In case it helps in a Google search, that resistor pack was called a 'ballast resistor'.
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    Motor controller fix- parts id

    Good identification from the picture duke37. And doubly good that ykeinan effected a successful repair.
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    Stupid nut!

    Waaah..., sniff, sniff. It wasn't magic? Harry Potter is a fake? I was going to buy me a couple hundred of them as labor saving devices. Millions of dollars could have been saved in physical therapy for workers injured by ergonomic stress accidents caused by work-related tasks involving torque...
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    Electric IBM Typewriter

    I've seen posts on the IBM Selectrics on ElectronicsPoint for years. You might try an archive search here, and see some of the problems people have talked about here. Finding people who still repair these units is usually very expensive. But so many of them have been obsoleted by computer...
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    Motor controller fix- parts id

    What's that round blob next to the blown capacitor in your second picture? (looks corroded on top, from heat?) Is that the top of a transistor that might have shorted, CAUSING your cap to explode? I'd look around your board a little more in the probability that something else on it failed...
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    Help with vhs

    Yeah, I might not be politically correctly 'inclusive' in a lawsuit, but the guy obviously wasn't 'valuing my diversity' in laying claim to the solution to Vanessa's problem that I lay claim to inventing 30 some years ago. We have PLENTY of lawyers here looking for something to do to help...
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    8mm spacing power connectors?

    I'd Google the Molex part number that you found to see who sells it. If that didn't work, I'd Google the connector pin spacing and see who else makes something suitable. It can be a pain sometimes looking for specific parts, but that's the way it is.
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    Help with vhs

    Sorry Harald, I didn't check your video before I added to the thread. .... can I sue the guy that made the video for stealing MY fix? Vanessa - please check the video Harald linked to. It's probably a lot better than my verbose post.
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    Hello All Pls Help.me

    Were you the one that took it apart? And you don't remember how to reassemble it? Or is this a question about the specific reason why it stopped working, and you're wondering what to do next? ALWAYS be careful of that flat ribbon cable that goes to the LCD display, it's easy to misalign that...
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