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Dead dishwasher - $250 for control panel?
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:24:32 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote:
snip Which license did you get? Me along with a bunch of guys I knew took a license course to help us ace our First Class FCC ticket more than 30 years ago. We were already working on radio stations and two way radio gear, the license just made us legal. The wacky guy giving the course had a favorite made up word to describe any mysterious, incomprehensible gadget. The word is "framistan" and I've been using it ever since. I have a whole story about the situations in which I use the word on "lay persons". *snicker* They're based on F.M.* * ****ing magic |
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aemeijers wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:56:46 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:40:44 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:49:35 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:27:19 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:20:22 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:16:43 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:46:43 -0400, aemeijers wrote: JimT wrote: "gpsman" wrote in message ... On Apr 6, 4:20 pm, Zootal wrote: Sigh...4 years, time to throw it away and buy another. Anyone care to recommend a good dishwasher? I don't believe there is more than a nickels worth of functional difference in any like-type appliances. Everybody makes a piece of **** designed only to outlive the warranty, such as they are these days. I think I got a whopping 90 days on this last $2200 TV. snip ==== My Panasonic Viera has been going strong for over 6 years now. The picture is as good as the day I bought it. Outlasted every TV I've ever owned. Again, shrug. One of my Trinitrons is 12 years old, the other maybe six? (bought it used). Both get heavy use, both still work perfectly. (Damn Sony quality- I can't justify buying flat-screens till these die.) As someone who feels that Sony is the best TV, and a used Sony is the second best TV, I have to tell you that the picture on a 12 year old Trinitron is NOTHING like the picture was when it was new. At 6 years the deterioration would be noticable in a side by side comparison with a new one. Phosphors get tired. Actually, it's the electron guns that get tired. Years ago when I was in the TV repair business, rebuilt picture tubes were a very big business. I haven't seen a rebuilt picture tube in 20 years. It's my understanding that the only phosphors that would be replaced would be those in projector tubes because of the high output. I think there is only one picture tube rebuilding company left in The U.S. now. TDD No, that is a different issue. The guns get coated, and you can get a little more life out of them by blowing that coating off with a burst of electricity to the cathodes. They call this "Picture Tube Rejuvenation. Once you do it, you are on a short schedule for replacement. Sometimes you could get as good a result by tapping on the neck of the tube to knock some of the cake off. You could actually see the crap flake off. They also used to sell something called a CRT brightner, which simply raised the voltage to the filiments. This also hastened ultimate failure. Often rejuvenation resulted in immediate failure. It's really a desperate move. None of that will cure tired phosphors, which are simply less reactive then newer ones. The phosphors get tired and the picture quality suffers. The guns are factory coated, the blaster makes a fresh surface because the old surface loses efficiency. The B&W and single color tube coating of phosphors can be renewed from what I've read. The color tubes have the three different color phosphors deposited on the faceplate before it is welded to the glass bell which would make it unlikely to be an economical prospect for re-coating. I used my Sencore picture tube tester many a time to add a little life to an old set along with all the little booster gadgets that were on the market 35 years ago. I miss those wonderful electric shocks I received from the horizontal output tubes when my elbow touched an anode cap. I'm much better now. BZZZZZ! TDD I explained it correctly and factually. Well tell me, what do the guns get coated with during proper operation? I'm always open to learning new things because regardless of what I may think, I don't know everything. *snicker* Exhausted material from the cathode itself. Often you can SEE the crap flake off of a badly encrusuted cathode if you tap on the neck of the tub sharply with a screwdriver handle while the tube is in operation. *snicker* The tube tester had a rejuvenation function that would blast the guns and you could see the sparkling through the neck of the picture tube. TDD Well, DUH, Dufas! WTF do you think I have told you several times now? The literature from Sencore called this exposing a fresh layer on the emitters not blowing off deposits. Anyhoo, everyone may call it something different. TDD Exposing a fresh layer by blowing off the dead stuff. Are you really having this much trouble wrapping your head around something so simple? I would avoid getting too wrapped up in Sencore's "technical" information. Sencore was sort of the "Rent to Own" of the electronics world. Their main business was selling extremely over priced equipment to little mom & pop repair shops who couldn't qualify for a business loan to buy equipment. The Sencore stuff wasn't awful, but you could get MUCH better stuff for a lot less money. The VA-65, as an example, was an easy to use device for general TV/video work, but couldn't even generate a genuine NTSC white window test pattern. Unfortunately, most service manual photographs of waveforms were made using a genuine NTSC white window pattern generator, so comparing what was in the manuals to what you were looking at on your Sencore was problematic. The price of the VA-65, like all Sencore equipment, was absurd. If you wanted one, buying from someone going out of business was the way to go. And scopes? You could buy 2 or 3, 100 MHz Hitachis with far better triggering, etc, for the price of a two channel 60Mhz Sencore scope. But Sencore had the exclusive framistan electrode analyzer for color CRT tubes. No one else had such a product. I had new and used Sencore stuff that worked well and did the job. I wasn't sending rockets into outer space. Now I have HP scopes laying around along with other stuff I dreamed of owning. I recently fixed up some HP TDR units for a friend to sell on eBay. The things cost thousands of dollars way back when they were new but some folks still like to use them. The little chart recorders are so cute. TDD OOPS! I misspoke, the TDR units were Tektronix 1502's. TDD It sounds like we have both may have worked on a few TV's at some point. I actually worked more on commercial video and audio equipment, but there were always TV's as part of the mix, and I even went and got licensed for consumer electronics, (Radio/TV/Antenna) even though I really didn't need the license for what I was doing. I just figured it was a good thing to have. Which license did you get? Me along with a bunch of guys I knew took a license course to help us ace our First Class FCC ticket more than 30 years ago. We were already working on radio stations and two way radio gear, the license just made us legal. The wacky guy giving the course had a favorite made up word to describe any mysterious, incomprehensible gadget. The word is "framistan" and I've been using it ever since. I have a whole story about the situations in which I use the word on "lay persons". *snicker* TDD Uh, I think Don Martin, from MAD magazine, coined that one.... I could be wrong, though. Oh man! Did I ever love Mad Magazine, Spy vs Spy was one of my favorite parts. TDD |
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Dead dishwasher - $250 for control panel?
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:20:26 -0500, Zootal
wrote: (Doug Miller) wrote in : In article 31, Zootal wrote: I have a four year old Maytag Quiet Series 300 dishwasher that has stopped working. I looked at it and found the ribbon cable to the front control panel had burnt traces. A front control panel costs $250 or more, and there is no guarantee it didn't take the control module out with it. Is there any hope for this thing? I'm thinking it's time to trash it and get a new one due to the cost of replacing the control panel. Have you checked eBay? Yah - the only I found for my model is $200 :-( Sigh...4 years, time to throw it away and buy another. Anyone care to recommend a good dishwasher? I've had good luck and performance with Kenmore/Whirlpool and back luck with GE and poor performance with Maytag. |
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On Apr 6, 10:48*pm, "JimT" wrote:
"gpsman" wrote in message ... On Apr 6, 4:20 pm, Zootal wrote: Anyone care to recommend a good dishwasher? I don't believe there is more than a nickels worth of functional difference in any like-type appliances. A note: I recently began experiencing performance reduced from my typical experience. I called P&G relative to the simultaneous change in color (green/ white) of liquid Cascade™ and was told it had recently been reformulated in compliance with federal regulations to eliminate phosphates. Before I removed the DW and installed another cabinet I changed the setting to "High Temp Wash" (even though running the water at the sink until it is hot is my SOP, and I think it's pretty hot) and performance has been restored to its previous satisfactory level. ----- - gpsman |
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On Apr 7, 12:50*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:42:21 -0500, "JimT" wrote: wrote in message .. . On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:17:07 -0400, dgk wrote: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:46:43 -0400, aemeijers wrote: JimT wrote: "gpsman" wrote in message ... On Apr 6, 4:20 pm, Zootal wrote: Sigh...4 years, time to throw it away and buy another. Anyone care to recommend a good dishwasher? I don't believe there is more than a nickels worth of functional difference in any like-type appliances. Everybody makes a piece of **** designed only to outlive the warranty, such as they are these days. *I think I got a whopping 90 days on this last $2200 TV. snip ==== My Panasonic Viera has been going strong for over 6 years now. The picture is as good as the day I bought it. Outlasted every TV I've ever owned. Again, shrug. One of my Trinitrons is 12 years old, the other maybe six? (bought it used). Both get heavy use, both still work perfectly. (Damn Sony quality- I can't justify buying flat-screens till these die.) At least twice a month I see old Trinitrons being offered on Freecycle. Plenty of other perfectly good old CRTs also need new homes. A couple of years ago, I had a nice 27" Sony that I no longer needed. This was probably 3 or 4 years old. I put it out at the end of my driveway with the remote control and owners manual in a plastic bag on top. It was gone in less than an hour, and I'm sure it made someone very happy. LOL...Here I can put almost anything on the curb and some moron will pick it up. Have you ever watched that show "American Pickers"? Some people will take just about anything. This was actually a very nice TV. I just didn't want the bother of trying to sell it. Probably could have gotten a couple hundred for it. I've done the same with a few computer monitors and air conditioners. All in good shape, but no longer needed. They disappear very fast.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Right now with everyone going LCD and flat screen some are giving perfectly good CRT TVs away, as the OP did. For the moment we'll stick with our used TV ($25) which we fixed for four dollars. It it all goes digital probably just give up TV and depend on the TV feeds we get via the internet! |
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On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:24:32 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:56:46 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:40:44 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:49:35 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:27:19 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:20:22 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:16:43 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote: wrote: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:46:43 -0400, aemeijers wrote: JimT wrote: "gpsman" wrote in message ... On Apr 6, 4:20 pm, Zootal wrote: Sigh...4 years, time to throw it away and buy another. Anyone care to recommend a good dishwasher? I don't believe there is more than a nickels worth of functional difference in any like-type appliances. Everybody makes a piece of **** designed only to outlive the warranty, such as they are these days. I think I got a whopping 90 days on this last $2200 TV. snip ==== My Panasonic Viera has been going strong for over 6 years now. The picture is as good as the day I bought it. Outlasted every TV I've ever owned. Again, shrug. One of my Trinitrons is 12 years old, the other maybe six? (bought it used). Both get heavy use, both still work perfectly. (Damn Sony quality- I can't justify buying flat-screens till these die.) As someone who feels that Sony is the best TV, and a used Sony is the second best TV, I have to tell you that the picture on a 12 year old Trinitron is NOTHING like the picture was when it was new. At 6 years the deterioration would be noticable in a side by side comparison with a new one. Phosphors get tired. Actually, it's the electron guns that get tired. Years ago when I was in the TV repair business, rebuilt picture tubes were a very big business. I haven't seen a rebuilt picture tube in 20 years. It's my understanding that the only phosphors that would be replaced would be those in projector tubes because of the high output. I think there is only one picture tube rebuilding company left in The U.S. now. TDD No, that is a different issue. The guns get coated, and you can get a little more life out of them by blowing that coating off with a burst of electricity to the cathodes. They call this "Picture Tube Rejuvenation. Once you do it, you are on a short schedule for replacement. Sometimes you could get as good a result by tapping on the neck of the tube to knock some of the cake off. You could actually see the crap flake off. They also used to sell something called a CRT brightner, which simply raised the voltage to the filiments. This also hastened ultimate failure. Often rejuvenation resulted in immediate failure. It's really a desperate move. None of that will cure tired phosphors, which are simply less reactive then newer ones. The phosphors get tired and the picture quality suffers. The guns are factory coated, the blaster makes a fresh surface because the old surface loses efficiency. The B&W and single color tube coating of phosphors can be renewed from what I've read. The color tubes have the three different color phosphors deposited on the faceplate before it is welded to the glass bell which would make it unlikely to be an economical prospect for re-coating. I used my Sencore picture tube tester many a time to add a little life to an old set along with all the little booster gadgets that were on the market 35 years ago. I miss those wonderful electric shocks I received from the horizontal output tubes when my elbow touched an anode cap. I'm much better now. BZZZZZ! TDD I explained it correctly and factually. Well tell me, what do the guns get coated with during proper operation? I'm always open to learning new things because regardless of what I may think, I don't know everything. *snicker* Exhausted material from the cathode itself. Often you can SEE the crap flake off of a badly encrusuted cathode if you tap on the neck of the tub sharply with a screwdriver handle while the tube is in operation. *snicker* The tube tester had a rejuvenation function that would blast the guns and you could see the sparkling through the neck of the picture tube. TDD Well, DUH, Dufas! WTF do you think I have told you several times now? The literature from Sencore called this exposing a fresh layer on the emitters not blowing off deposits. Anyhoo, everyone may call it something different. TDD Exposing a fresh layer by blowing off the dead stuff. Are you really having this much trouble wrapping your head around something so simple? I would avoid getting too wrapped up in Sencore's "technical" information. Sencore was sort of the "Rent to Own" of the electronics world. Their main business was selling extremely over priced equipment to little mom & pop repair shops who couldn't qualify for a business loan to buy equipment. The Sencore stuff wasn't awful, but you could get MUCH better stuff for a lot less money. The VA-65, as an example, was an easy to use device for general TV/video work, but couldn't even generate a genuine NTSC white window test pattern. Unfortunately, most service manual photographs of waveforms were made using a genuine NTSC white window pattern generator, so comparing what was in the manuals to what you were looking at on your Sencore was problematic. The price of the VA-65, like all Sencore equipment, was absurd. If you wanted one, buying from someone going out of business was the way to go. And scopes? You could buy 2 or 3, 100 MHz Hitachis with far better triggering, etc, for the price of a two channel 60Mhz Sencore scope. But Sencore had the exclusive framistan electrode analyzer for color CRT tubes. No one else had such a product. I had new and used Sencore stuff that worked well and did the job. I wasn't sending rockets into outer space. Now I have HP scopes laying around along with other stuff I dreamed of owning. I recently fixed up some HP TDR units for a friend to sell on eBay. The things cost thousands of dollars way back when they were new but some folks still like to use them. The little chart recorders are so cute. TDD OOPS! I misspoke, the TDR units were Tektronix 1502's. TDD It sounds like we have both may have worked on a few TV's at some point. I actually worked more on commercial video and audio equipment, but there were always TV's as part of the mix, and I even went and got licensed for consumer electronics, (Radio/TV/Antenna) even though I really didn't need the license for what I was doing. I just figured it was a good thing to have. Which license did you get? Me along with a bunch of guys I knew took a license course to help us ace our First Class FCC ticket more than 30 years ago. We were already working on radio stations and two way radio gear, the license just made us legal. The wacky guy giving the course had a favorite made up word to describe any mysterious, incomprehensible gadget. The word is "framistan" and I've been using it ever since. I have a whole story about the situations in which I use the word on "lay persons". *snicker* TDD It's basically my state's version of a CET. Covers me as a tech and also as a dealer who employs techs. I think the test was written during either the Truman or Eisenhower administrations. If you didn't grow up working on tube equipment, the test would be a bit if a challenge. I hear they bought an updated test about 15 years ago that doesn't treat transistors as "new-fangled". My late paternal great uncle was an army lifer and was in the Army Signal Corp since they used two tin cans and a string. I got a lot of stuff from the crusty old master sergeant. You can imagine the tube stuff I got to play with as a kid. It's fun to fool around with tube gear every now and then but DANG it's gotten expensive. I remember when a horizontal output transistor was $35.00 and the tube was $5.00. Now the same transistor costs $1.00 or less and the darn tube is $50.00. At least the tube type equipment will work after an EM pulse. TDD |
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