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    Volts and Amps for beginners

    It seems to me that almost every second thread has a poster who doesn't understand the relationship between voltage and current (and implicitly resistance) causing them to become highly confused about whether a 10A supply is going to overload their xxxx and burn it out. Do we have somewhere...
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    LCD Monitor CCFL fault -- lamps or inverter?

    Based on my recent successful monitor repair I have been passed an already disassembled 19 inch monitor that "went pink and died". This is the classic CCFL failure problem. The owner of this monitor decided that replacing the CCFL lamps was going to be too hard and didn't go any further. As...
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    Help opening Acer AL1916 monitor

    I have one of these LCD monitors that turns on OK, then the screen goes dark and the power light flashes on and off. I'm going to have a bit of a poke around inside, but I can't get the cover off. Any ideas? Any ideas about the fault? I'm leaning toward it being a backlight inverter issue.
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    Shocking design

    Increasingly I am seeing more poor, questionable, or simply dangerous design in electronic goods. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm getting older and crankier :D Some things I've seen relatively recently: 1) A battery powered timer tap that had the diodes deliberately omitted from...
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    Siliconix SSTC34-T1 datasheet

    I have been gifted about 2/3 of a reel (2000 parts) of Siliconix SSTC34-T1 N Channel JFets. The problem is, there appears to be no data available for them :-( I would be very grateful if someone can point me in the direction of the specs for this device. They are SOT-23 and the label on...
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