The “Speaker”

The Voice of Nesda Ohio

Electronics Servicing Professionals April 2011 Edition

NesdaOHIO meeting Feb. 15, 2011

BY: nesdaOHIO Secretary PHOTO’s by “Flash” Sopko

Members began to arrive at the Clarion

Inn in Hudson, Ohio a bit after 6pm. We were
glad to see that most of the traffic woes around
NESDA the hotel have been resolved and it is Much easier
to get there than when we had the annual
American Pride Weekend of Training here last September.
(Maybe that Crate of C-4 we sent to the Ohio
Visit our Website Dept. of Transportation had some effect, after all).
Present were Bill Deitz, Richard Engler, Kent
www.nesda-ohio.com
Fairbanks, Phil Skoff, Rich Uminski, Norm
Romaker, Tim Murtz, Ali Obaid, Joe Sopko, and
Bob Lowe. 3 out-of state members who had car-
Please Patronize pooled called to say that they had car trouble
Our Sponsors…. enroute and couldn’t make it. We were sorry to
miss them. Members renewed their friendships
They Make This and chatted while some of the nesdaOHIO Ladies
Publication Auxiliary set out some Delicious-smelling Food.
Possible !!! Mrs Uminski (J&R TV) had prepared some Chili,
and Mrs Sopko (Consumer Service) had made
Electronix/RepairWorld dessert.
Encompass Parts While we ate, the nesdaOHIO secretary
B&D Enterprises entertained us with videos projected onto the
PTS Electronics screen via the DLP Projector – some Zenith
PacParts, inc. commercials from the ‘60’s, leftover from last
month, and some others showing how they made
radio program sound effects in the days before
Television. A Bit after Seven PM, the ladies went
out to play with their dolls or do whatever girls do
while we Men solved the problems of the
Electronics world. (In actual fact, Mrs Sopko was
holding her Own class of “Beginning Knitting”
for the ladies while we were doing “Man Stuff”.
In This Issue : She would be glad to include other wives in it at
future meetings)
February Meeting ················· 1
Panasonic CT27SX58··········· 2 After the fine meal, we migrated over to
CET Teaser··························· 4 look at a collection of ESR meters that members
Tech-Tips······························ 4 had been asked to bring with them.
24” Magnavox Combo ········· 7
Computer Illiterate················ 10
Chief writer Joe Sopko’s…. Laws
Meeting Info ························· 12
Teaser Answer ······················ 12 The Coffee Law -
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee,
your boss will ask you to do something which will
last until the coffee is cold..
Ali Obaid (L) & Bill Deitz (R) Check out ESR Meters
We tend to get comfortable with our own tools
and are not aware of what else is out there. Here
we were able to see analog Tenma & Creative
Electronics meters, an Electronic Design
Specialist meter with a Bargraph, the Old Black
Dick Smith and the New Blue Dick Smith, and a
Sencore Cap Analyzer. Some members had
brought bags of good and bad capacitors and we
put the meters through their paces before the main
part of the meeting started, and again after it was
over. The Sencore Wasn’t an ESR Meter but
could check other parameters of capacitors such
as Leakage and Capacitor Value (Microfarad) that
the ESR meters could not. In Addition, Bob
Lowe showed off the “Tweezer Probes” on his
meter which proved to be Very Handy! (Gotta Git
me one o’ Those!) We were glad to see a variety
of products.
Cont. on Page 3
Newsletter Hotline !
Got A News Item ?
Tech-Tip ? Correction ?
Please Contact:
Joe Sopko, 216-381-1140
jsopko112@aol.com
OR
Ron Purkhiser,
352-666-4773
rpurkhis@tampabay.rr.com

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 POETRY CORNER By: Monsieur Josef

With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who wrote "How do

I Love Thee / Let me count the Ways" and inspired this column, I paraphrase
that into "How have I been Faked Out - Let me count the ways". I never in-
tended this column to become a regular feature, But, Oh Dear, I keep finding
ways to get Faked out while repairing equipment. Learn from me, so it
Fig.1
doesn't happen to you. The
10J106
Today's Lovely Open Verse poem involves an Old Gentleman - a Panasonic CT27SX58. This
gentleman was carried in by another “Vintage Gent” who brought in the Chassis Only. Good thing that I am a Pack Rat Extraordinaire
and still have my RCA 10J106 Test Jig so that I could Service him. I Tied his arms & Legs to the Test Jig and began to have my way
with him. Since the set was supposedly “Dead” I began by tickling his SMPS with a Voltmeter.

That revealed the absence of Raw B+ on the Drain of the SMPS’s FET, and it was
easy work to find that the FET was shorted and the 1.5 ohm - 7W Surge Limiter resistor was
open. But that is not the subject of this column. The intent of this column is to show how I
have been Faked out, so that it doesn’t happen to You! After restoring Power to the chassis,
the Screen lit up - but there was No Vertical Sweep.

Oh Pshaw! I do so hate it when that happens! You fix one problem that it came in
for, but then have another unrelated problem. I reflowed the solder on the Vert.Sweep IC
with no success, ESR’d all the caps in that circuit, and then sat down and had a good Cry
because none of this helped even a single bit! I was ready to Surrender when I finally
Fig.2 opened a schematic and looked closely in that vertical circuit. (See Fig. 3, Page 5) Can you
see it? Look closely at those yoke connections on that chassis!

Continued on Page 5

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 Continued from Front Page NESDA of Ohio
State President
Bob Lowe, CET/CSM
440-247-7391

State Vice President

Tim Murtz, CSM
440-232-5620

State Treasurer
Rich Uminski, CSM
216-641-9470
Tenma
Sencore CA55 State Secretary
Joe Sopko, CET
216-381-1140
EDS

Directors

Jim Mancuso
330-467-0777
Jeff O'Connor
724-775-7123

Newsletter
Joe Sopko, CET
216-381-1140
Dick Smith
Ron Purkhiser
Dick Smith 352-666-4773
Creative Electronics

The main part of the meeting was to look at a Powerpoint Program of training that had been presented DISCLAIMER
at last year’s NPSC by the TPA “ NEW”. Each person at that NPSC class was given a memory stick Information presented in "The
with that presentation on it showing VIZIO LCD & Plasma products. Viewing the PPT Here in Speaker" is derived from many
Cleveland meant that we didn’t have the Words that were spoken in that class, but the person who had
sources and is believed to be
been at the NPSC class tried to remember some of them and went through the PPT slide by slide correct at time of printing. We
showing products from the last 3 years. The Technicians here in Ohio did some brainstorming while make no guarantee, express or
the slides were being shown and called out our own words to discern what the slides were telling usimplied of the accuracy, effi-
and telling tips and fixes that they had encountered. Between all of us, we managed to come up withcacy, or safety of any of the
what the creator of the PPT was trying to get across. This was a good exercise in forcing us to THINK
techniques published. It is not
and REASON. It brought our level of training on VIZIO products up from “Zero” to “Something” intended to replace Manufac-
even if we had to Do It Ourselves. Listening to the variety and depth of the suggestions being shouted
turer's Recommendations or
out proved that “ALL of us are smarter than ONE of us”. good Safety and Troubleshoot-
ing practices. Use at your own
The PPT held 122 slides, and we managed to cover the half devoted to VIZIO LCD products Risk. The Speaker, its Writers
before the hour grew late. Given the age of nesdaOHIOANS (Except for the nesdaOHIO Secretary) Many and Staff, and Nesda of Ohio
of them were already up past their bedtime. The half of the PPT containing PLASMA products may assume NO responsibility for
be a story for another time. President Bob Lowe brought down the gavel, closing the meeting at 9pm damage to persons or property
while we stood around polishing off the Desserts from dinner and waiting for the wives to return. as a result of any information
printed herein. Opinions stated
are those of the author and not
the Nesda of Ohio Newslet-
Wanna Join Nesda-Ohio ? ter. Opinions stated are be-
http://nesda-ohio.com/iwaynet/pubhtml/app1.html lieved to be true, and are offered
in the spirit of helping other
Or e-mail Ron Purkhiser, rpurkhis@tampabay.rr.com servicers but may have no basis
Or Tim Murtz, timexcel@msn.com in fact.

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 CET Brain Teaser

From the CET Study Guide and

Practice Test In the figure at the right, the
circuit is powered with a 9V
TODAYS QUESTION is presented in The supply. If there is 2V applied to
Speaker just for fun with the permission of the input what should you
the ISCET, and maybe will get you started measure on the output ?
thinking about hanging out your own CET
shingle. For more information, we invite
1. 6V
you to visit the ISCET website at
2. 9V
www.iscet.org We are grateful to them 3. -6V
for allowing us to present this feature.
4. -9V
Today’s question is from the CET
Associate level Study Guide provided by
ISCET.

Tech Tips #258740 Problem: No pic, just retrace lines

Fix: Replaced Q944 and Q945
Mits TV, Model VS4543 Hitachi TV, 50EX20B
Problem: Dead, relay clicks Problem: Dead set, line fuse open Sony TV, KP53S70
Fix: Replaced the following, IC900, STR- Fix: Replace both Q004 (signal board) and Problem: Dead
M6811, IC901, SE130N, and PC900, D909. Fix: Replaced shorted HOT, Q502, coil
ON3161R. L503 and Fuse
Mits TV, CS-2610R
Mits TV, Model CK3531R Problem: Pic too bright with lines in it. RCA TV, MM102A
Problem: Set had a negative pic Fix: No 200V to the CRT Bd. Replacing Problem: Set Dead
Fix: Replaced IC8A2 and R8A3 D552 (264P295020) and R560 (1.2Ω/ Fix: Replaced Q14451
quarter watt) fixed the set.
Panasonic TV, PT50LC13 Hitachi TV, 50V500A
Problem: Parental lock forgotten, set must Panasonic TV, CTK2770S Problem: Fan noise
be re-initialized Problem: Vert collapsed after TV was on Fix: Unit has two fans and a small amount
Fix: Press and hold the volume down button for a few seconds. of noise is normal. If it is a grinding,
on the front of set, press the OK button on Fix: Problem turned out to be an open coil vibration or ticking noise, replace the fan.
the remote for 5 seconds on the CRT Bd. L351, #ELEPH151KA
Hitachi TV, 53DX20B
RCA ATC010 Hitachi TV, 60SDX88B Problem: NO sync on main pic, but PIP
Problem; Set shutsdown a few seconds Problem: Shutdown Ok.
after powering on. Fix: Replaced Q777 Fix: Replaced IX04
Fix: Found bad solder on video cable from
the main board to the CRT socket. RCA TV, CTC169 Hitachi TV, 65XWX20B
Problem: Vert short at the bottom and wide Problem: Picture freezes.
RCA ITC222 at the top. Fix: Add a jumper wire 28 ga from pin 1 of
Problem: Set won’t come on, but pulses a Fix: Found C4510 bad. I007 to cathode of D019.
few times.
Fix: Replacing D1201 fixed the set. Panasonic TV, PT47WX53G P8

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 Continued from Page 2

My Dears, You’ll Never see them here on paper in Oh So Drab

Black & White! Please view this figure 3 on the nesdaOHIO web-
site at www.nesda-ohio.com where you can see this figure in
greater detail and in Full Living Color. You’ll also be able to see
my Lovely Complexion in the color picture which heads this column
just as though it was In The Flesh

Can you see them now? Four Yoke Terminals, counting

from Left to Right: 1, (Space), 2, 3, 4. Now, Just Everyone knows
that the Horizontal yoke connects to the terminals with the wide
space with them: Terminals 1 & 2 in other words… and the Verti-
cal windings would, by default, connect to terminals 3 & 4. Well,
My Little Kumquat, if you thought That, then you would be
WRONG! Look you at Figure 4,
and Look Close! The Horizontal
Fig.3 Yoke windings are 1 & 4 – The 2
END terminals of the yoke plug!
The Vertical windings are pins 2
& 3, the Center Terminals! Now, as you can see from my youthful countenance which adorns the top
of this column. I have not – as the youngest of the nesdaOHIOANS - seen many chassis to be jigged up.
Those chassis were popular Long before my time, and every chassis that I have ever seen has had the
Horizontal Yoke Windings on either side of the gap in the Pins. But as the little snippet of schematic
shows in Fig.4, the Horizontal is indeed pins 1&4, and that the Vertical is indeed pins 2&3. I must ad-
Fig.4
mit with a frown on my pretty face that I did indeed connect the yoke wrong (I hope that my face does-
n’t freeze this way).

The color picture of Figure 3 in the Online Speaker shows the correct way to jig this chassis: the Red and Black wires of the
Horizontal on the two Outside pins, and the Yellow and Green Vertical wires on the two center pins. When it was connected thus, the
vertical sweep returned and everyone was happy – Most of all:
ME. If it wasn’t for that nice Howard Sams (I Love that Man)
putting out those fine Sams Photofacts I would have been faked
out of more than my shoes – I would have been Faked out of
my Thong!

...And so to answer the question in the First Stanza: How have

I been Faked Out? "I've been Faked Out to the Depths of the
Ocean, and to the Heights of the Sky".

[EDITOR’S Note: snippet of Sam’s

Photofact used with permission of How-
ard Sams Co. www.samswebsite.com]

www.pacparts.com
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 The Adventures of Sherlock Ohms
The Adventure
of the
Maligned Magnavox
It was a dark and
stormy night that found Sher-
lock Ohms, the world’s fore-
most consulting detective, and
myself – Dr. John H.Watts-on
locked against the winter storm into our rooms at 221B Baker
Street. London doesn’t often suffer winter storms, but this one
seems to have been transplanted by the Jet Stream from Cleveland,
Ohio. We hear from our American cousins that they have had a
hard winter on that side of the Atlantic. Whatever the cause, The
windows in our flat were shut tight against the wind – and that also
sealed in the cloud of smoke being produced by the Abominable
Shag Tobacco favored by my friend Sherlock Ohms. Why he ever
chose those Weeds dipped in Camel Dung, I’ll never know but he
says that it stimulates his mental processes – and they were needed
now as he hunched over the carcass of a 24” Magnavox TV/VCR/
DVD Model MWC24T5B.
“A Conundrum is it, Ohms?” said I, inquiring into his
progress. “No, Watts-on” replied Ohms, “It’s a Magnavox, and is
proving to be a tough nut to crack. The Blighter is Dead – Dead as
a Rock – Dead as a Mackerel – Dead as a Doornail – Dead as any
other simile’s you might care to make, and it does not appear to be
any of the usual suspects”. He smiled at his little play on words
and blew another cloud of noxious smoke from the depths of his
Meershaum.
“Of course, you’ve checked the fuses, and surge limiting
resistors… And I imagine that you’ve also checked for shorted
Horizontal Output Transistor and Bridge Rectifiers as well.”
“That’s Elementary, my dear Watts-
on”, puffed Ohms through his cloud of vapor.
“A School child would have done that. I am
about to give the device a good visual inspec-
tion”, he said as he pulled out the Fresnel
Lens of his pocket magnifier, given to him by
Kim Wagner of Encompass fame. “This lens
is worth Ten Voltmeters, Watts-on! One may
carry it in one’s pocket and expand one’s
view of circuit boards at will.” And he pro-
ceeded to do exactly that, progressing across
the Circuit Board with his nose no farther that
an inch from its surface. “At Least he cannot puff that accursed
Pipe with his face so close”, I muttered to myself as he conducted
his visual inspection.
“What’s That? Did you say Something, Watts-on” asked
Ohms, proving that his eyesight was matched only by his hearing.
Then he exclaimed “A-Hah! Look There Watts-on””, pointing to
a small round rubber disc, about 3/16” in diameter laying very
The Speaker April 2011
By: John H Watts-on MD
close to the surface of the circuit board. “Do you see it?” He con-
tinued. “There are two tiny leads protruding from that rubber disc
– ‘Less I miss my guess, those are the remains of an Electrolytic
Capacitor that has blown apart.”
So they
were. Although
further scrutiny
disclosed some
small bits of
paper from
within the ca-
pacitor strewn
about the inte-
rior of the cabi-
net, no trace of
the body of the
capacitor could
be found.
“What a Revoltin’ C1625, D1619
Development This
is” said Ohms.
“Without the body of that Capacitor, we cannot know with what
part to replace it”. I offered to down-load the Service manual from
the Encompass web-site, as this is the repository for Magnavox
manuals these days, but was Unsuccessful. Even after signing in
with the Secret Philips Username and Password, The Manual was
not to be found. (or else it was well hidden, even from a trained investigator
like me). A search of “The Force” also proved fruitless, as did the
Technical libraries of the nesda-OHIO Web-site (www.nesda-
ohio.com) and our friends at the Tech-Assist Service Forum
(www.tech-assist.org). One would not want to “Guess” at compo-
nent values within an SMPS, so a different tack was taken. A
Message was posted on the NESDA Trade Association’s Broad-
cast Group requesting a Service Manual. Within a short amount of
time, Nesda-Net members Lou Jannotta of Monessen, Pa and Jack
Denton of Wofford Heights CA Both sent a PDF of just what was
needed. The Capacitor was identified by the Silkscreening on the
PCB as C1625, a 0.47uf@50v Electrolytic connected to the Anode
of D1619, which supplies a negative voltage to Q1221 for switch-
ing purposes.
Ohms said “HMmmm, Watts-on… It’s Unusual to see
a .47uf cap blown apart. Let us clip in a replacement capacitor
using yon clipleads, Even though the diode (D1619) is not
shorted.” I did as instructed, and the Combination instrument was
powered up and ran normally for about a half-minute. After a
short run, there was a ‘Woosh’ and smoke vented from our new
capacitor, treating us to a replay of what the owner might have
seen at the moment of failure.
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Ohms reached for his DVM and re-checked the diode, which Still did not measure short. “Now Watts-on,” he said as he clipped one end
of the diode. “One more clip-lead, if you please, and add a new diode to this mix. With both the diode and replacement capacitor
clipped firmly into place power was reapplied, and This time the product performed perfectly for an extended period.

“Please solder in Both the new

Capacitor And the Diode, doctor,
and we may be done in time for
our favorite Telly show.” With an
incentive like that, I applied my
Surgical Skills and had trans-
planted the errant components in
short order and we settled down to
watch “Elvira, Mistress of the
Dark” who has been reprised on
the Cable network. I was grateful
that the visage of the lovely Elvira
made Ohms forget about his
abominable Pipe.

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 The Computer Illiterate By: Joe Sopko
Sopko

A Continuing Feature at "The Speaker", written by an acknowledged

Computer Illiterate. The material contained here may be known to
everybody in the civilized world - except the author - who says "It
sounded good to Me, so I'll pass it on". The author advises that he has
NO knowledge of computers, and as such cannot judge the accuracy or
efficacy of the material presented herein. Nor does he assume any re-
sponsibility for damage to your computer, files or self esteem.

Today’s Topic: ““Did you Lose your THUMB DRIVE?”

Ohmigawd!!! Don’t even Suggest That ! What a horrible thing to have happen! Many us us carry our entire LIFE stored on our Thumb
Drive, those little memory sticks in which we can store anything electronic. In Mine, I have all the Powerpoints that I use for the class
that I teach, correspondence with friends and associates, a few schematic PDF’s, My Vacation Photos, Minutes from the nesdaOHIO
Meetings, Pictures of the nesdaOHIO Officers in compromising situations, so you can see that the loss of this little 4 giga-byte wonder
would be a Serious Blow to me. Howinnaworld would I Ever Get it Back?

Well, there’s a simple thing that you can do that might help you out. First, Cross your fingers that the Person who found it is Honest.
Second, That you have a file on there with your Contact information so that the
(Hope you didn’t lose it at a nesdaOHIO Meeting).
person who found it can give you a call. This is Real easy to do – so much so that even The Computer Illiterate can do it. Here’s the
steps:

1. Create a New Folder on the Desktop:

(RIGHT-CLICK a Blank area of the desktop. In the
Menu that Pops up, Select “New” and then “Folder”

2. Give your new folder a name like:

00 DID YOU FIND THIS DRIVE
Note that you can’t use a Question Mark. Anyone
that finds it should get the Idea
Note also the Leading Zero’s – That should make
this the first folder on this drive

3. Give your new Folder an Eye-Catching Icon.

You will have to go through 4 Menus to do this.
1.
Quit Whining, If The Computer Illiterate can do this, So Can You!
RIGHT-CLICK your new folder and select “Properties” from the bottom
of the first pop-up menu (picture 1)

In the next menu that pops up, Select the “CUSTOMIZE” Tab
(picture 2

Another Menu Pops up – and you want the Selection at the

bottom that says “CHANGE ICON”. (NOT the choice that
says “Folder Options” or “Choose Picture” - - You want the one at the BOTTOM of that box
that says “CHANGE ICON” ( picture 3 on page 11)

2. Continued Page 11

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 Continued From Page 10
3

FINALLY, the Last of the 4 Menus comes up where

you can scroll across pictures of Icons until you find
one that strikes your fancy. I Chose a lovely eye-
catching Five Pointed Star that would stand out in the
directory of my Thumb Drive.
4.
When you click the Star, it becomes Highlighted, then
when you click “OK” and “Apply” a couple of times,
the folder on your desktop is replaced by the star that
you just selected.

SO, The hard part is over. You have an empty new folder sitting on your desktop,
with a star for the Icon, and a filename of “00 DID YOU FIND THIS DRIVE”. The next thing you have to do is put a phone number
in it so that the guy who finds your thumb-drive can call you. You DON’T want to put any personal information in there, like your
address (stalkers, Burglars, identity theives, you know) Just your Phone number so that the guy can call. We’re going to keep this Simple
and use “Notepad” – because maybe the guy doesn’t have “Word” or any other word processor program. A Notepad” file should be able
to be read by ANYONE.

4. Click the “START” Button at the bottom-left corner of your screen, Click
“RUN”, then type in “notepad”, and hit enter. The built-in Notepad that’s in
every computer will open (Bet you never used it before – didn’t even know it was
there, huh?) Type in words to this effect – Use Capital Letters: DID YOU
FIND THIS PORTABLE DRIVE? PLEASE CALL JOE SOPKO 216-381-
1140 THANK YOU

Naturally you would use your own name and phone number, but you get the
idea. If this drive was VERY important to you, like maybe you have your
entire Porn Collection on there, you might say “REWARD!”.

5. When you have your desired words typed in there, Click “File” in the Top-Left corner of Notepad, and select “SAVE AS” so
that you can type in the file name for this file of contact information and tell it to save it in your empty new folder with the star icon.
When you type in the filename, use CAPITAL LETTERS to type in “OWNERS CONTACT INFORMATION”, and notepad will
automatically save it as a .txt file that should be able to be read by anything.

So, Aint that Great? Some guy finds your lost drive, sticks it into his computer and the
directory comes up that looks like THIS with a Big Eye-Catching star at the top that says “DID
YOU FIND THIS DRIVE”… and when he clicks that he sees a file that says “OWNERS
CONTACT INFORMATION”. Hope he’s Honest enough to call.

If you find these figures hard to read in the Paper version of

The Speaker, we invite you to view them online at:
www.nesda-ohio.com
where you can see them in greater clarity and in full living
color

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