ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am probably going to avoid the news while I am in Devon - I want to spend a few nice days with my family away from the cares of the world. The situation in Ukraine is too depressing to think about for now. I can't see any way that this war will end quickly, other than something merciful happening like Putin suddenly dying of natural causes. Bumping him off and making him a martyr for Russian nationalists would probably just stir things up more.
On a more cheerful note... One of my sister's neighbours had a 2-and-a-bit year old 49" Panasonic UHD TV which recently developed a fault, just out of warranty. She went straight out and bought a new TV. She said that she was going to recycle the old set so we took it off her hands this afternoon...
Sounds like a job for amateur TV repairman!
I am going to try to fix the set before I go home. I switched it on and saw that there was power to the screen (the backlights were on) but nothing was displayed. I whipped the back cover off and looked at the flat cable from the motherboard to the screen. I wiggled the cable at the motherboard end and several times managed to see a very quick message flash up on the screen but then quickly disappear. It said "No signal". (Nothing was plugged into the set, so that was the correct message!) That tells me that the screen and backlight are ok. Either the cable is faulty, or maybe the flat output socket on the motherboard? These things are too fiddly to mess about with so I had a look on ebay and found a replacement motherboard and cable for £45. It's worth a punt! A decent TV for £45 would be a bargain.
I hope that the spares get here before I head north again. It wouldn't be a difficult job to replace the motherboard, plug in all the cables, and bolt it all back together but nobody else here feels confident enough to do it.
There is another electronic repair task for me. My sister's Huawei Android tablet has developed an intermittent fault. It works fine for a while but then random things seem to happen. I think that the screen's touch-screen overlay starts to malfunction. It is as if somebody is drumming and dragging their fingers on the screen. If I can't sort it out here, I may take the tablet back with me and try again next week.
On a more cheerful note... One of my sister's neighbours had a 2-and-a-bit year old 49" Panasonic UHD TV which recently developed a fault, just out of warranty. She went straight out and bought a new TV. She said that she was going to recycle the old set so we took it off her hands this afternoon...
Sounds like a job for amateur TV repairman!
I am going to try to fix the set before I go home. I switched it on and saw that there was power to the screen (the backlights were on) but nothing was displayed. I whipped the back cover off and looked at the flat cable from the motherboard to the screen. I wiggled the cable at the motherboard end and several times managed to see a very quick message flash up on the screen but then quickly disappear. It said "No signal". (Nothing was plugged into the set, so that was the correct message!) That tells me that the screen and backlight are ok. Either the cable is faulty, or maybe the flat output socket on the motherboard? These things are too fiddly to mess about with so I had a look on ebay and found a replacement motherboard and cable for £45. It's worth a punt! A decent TV for £45 would be a bargain.
I hope that the spares get here before I head north again. It wouldn't be a difficult job to replace the motherboard, plug in all the cables, and bolt it all back together but nobody else here feels confident enough to do it.
There is another electronic repair task for me. My sister's Huawei Android tablet has developed an intermittent fault. It works fine for a while but then random things seem to happen. I think that the screen's touch-screen overlay starts to malfunction. It is as if somebody is drumming and dragging their fingers on the screen. If I can't sort it out here, I may take the tablet back with me and try again next week.
I will either need grippers if I go out just now, or wait till later till it melts.
Good morning everybody, shopping Friday has rolled round again, dentist this afternoon, I wordled in three today.
ive been having a spending spree! poor old post person will be staggering under the load 
