Thread: Electronics........Bah!!!!!

I gotta say the best $150.00 I ever spent was with Jim's Antenna's. I could'nt even tell what colour shirts the people were wearing on Ch31.
It turned out the signal was twice as strong as the aerial could cope with.
After all the new TV was $1500, so it was only another 10%.
It really is a black art

David

Errr Richard This is what I do for a living .....and guess what I am coming to rockingham some time next week
Interested?
Brad

Originally Posted by Bradtot

Errr Richard This is what I do for a living .....and guess what I am coming to rockingham some time next week
Interested?
Brad

Yes I am Brad please contact me I willPM my landline

I'm annoyed 'cos the bedroom TV we bought just over a year ago has died and it's out of warranty - I suspect it's lost voltage to one or more of the tube grids - retrace lines are very visible and the screen is washed out. The trouble is that I'm not a TV tech and without a circuit diagram I'm lost in them.

It isn't worth repairing and I hate throwing stuff that should be repairable, out.

So we brought out the old Teac 34 cm TV to replace it. Hmm, can't find the remote. No worries, we'll do it by pressing the button on the front.

Nope, whilst we can switch it into standby mode with the front panel switch, it won't switch on without the remote. OK. We'll buy a multipurpose remote. Nope. Of the ones we tried, about the only TVs they won't work with are Teac.

Ron

Ron
what model exact is Teac I may have original remote
And if I do I will send you for free.
Retrace lines could be faulty tube on your other one. Was not very common in old days but just last week I had 2 rowa with faulty tubes under warranty...not good.
How far out of warranty is it.
Most manufact will give you some grace a long as its not too far out of date...or they will supply parts free but u pay lab.
What Brand is the other one and model as well please
Brad:

Hi Brad,

I'll PM the models tomorrow. Thanks very much for the offer, greatly appreciated.

Ron

$150 for the arial???? Wish thats what it cost me for my useless thing. When we moved in 3 years ago instead of doing it myself I decided that it can't be that expensive so got the local people in to sort out the arial. $455 later I had a new arial, new boster and still crap reception. Arial is now lying in the yard after I took it down for the renovations and I can't see any incentive to bother if it won't work.
I did learn to ask for a quote before letting people start any work. Cos I will not pay that kind of money again for TV without a guarantee that it will be perfect or my money back.

Hope you get yours sorted quick and easily

only last week our dvd packed it in i get the receipt out and bugger me we bought it on the 20th june 2005 it died on the 28/6/06

just over 12 months old and the warranty was a 12 month job

so on the phone talk to hardly norman who say they will ring phillips

20 minutes latter the man from hardly norman calls back phillips will swap it over no probs

oh and the new one has a 3 year warranty