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huggy
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Curt Palme
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It's sold.
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emdawgz1
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BASTAGE!!!!! 
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Bruce 09
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IT is long gone , Poor bastard will have to empty his message box every three hours for the next few days. 
Bruce[/b]
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stgdz
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Broken G90 for $650 though
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yonexsp
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broken is broken
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Curt Palme
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If it's the Ya board, I'm effed. If it's anything else (save for toasted tubes), I have spares.
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stgdz
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | If it's the Ya board, I'm effed. If it's anything else (save for toasted tubes), I have spares. |
I thought you were busy at a planitairum, do you have a rss feed for videogon's crt for sale section?
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Curt Palme
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No, I have the set here. I finally finished the boards. I now know the V sub board on the vertical board REALLY well. I ran out of IC sockets, bought more, ran out again. A power surge nuked a bunch of chips on the sub board and one output chip on the main board. Never seen that before. Then I got ambitious and repaired my five sub boards that have been sitting here for a couple of years, that also blew some chips, as the planetarium wanted to buy some backup boards from me.
About 18 hours total working on boards, I also finally nailed a technique to get 28 pin chips off the late Barco boards without ripping foils off the PC board.  I got it from 45 minutes per chip to about 20 by the time I was done.
I lucked out in that I came across a s/manual for a 1208 that someone had marked up with all sorts of highlighter, explaining each circuit. Not sure if Barco ever did a course on theory of operation for service techs, but that was massively helpful. It now has more voltage and scope markups on it thanks to me.
Got all of the boards going save for one, three of the ones are waiting for chips, but I subbed chips from a working one, so I know I nailed the problems.
It was a fluke that I trolled videogon this AM before I dove into boards, and managed to snag the set.
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overclkr
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It was a fluke that I trolled videogon this AM before I dove into boards, and managed to snag the set. |
Man you have been on FIRE lately Curt! 
Wonder what's wrong with it.........
It's funny how (knock on wood), all three of my G90's are still humming away on the original Dallas chips. One of them has over 16,000 I believe hours on it too. I guess I'm lucky. 
I have always made sure though to keep them powered (standby). Maybe that has something to do with it?
Cliffy
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Alan Winslow
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Curt, You are quick. I called right after you and it wasn't up but a few minutes. You are the Man!
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Curt Palme
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That one was indeed a fluke.
My running joke is now with the amount of 'wanna buy this projector?' phone calls and emails that I get, that if I had $1 mil and a 40,000 sq ft warehouse, and I bought every set offered to me from Jan 1 to Dec 31, the warehouse would be completely full, and I'd have a few $$ left over. Sadly, cash flow doesn't allow near what I want to buy, let alone have the time to go through, or have customers to buy them.
Still, this last 9 years of doing this has been one hell of a trip if I say so myself. Meeting all sorts of very cool people, the saddest thing is my location, which isolates me from most of the people here.
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donaldk
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No romney or equivalent for rent down south? Or a 40Ft container on some business lot.
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emdawgz1
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Still, this last 9 years of doing this has been one hell of a trip if I say so myself. Meeting all sorts of very cool people, the saddest thing is my location, which isolates me from most of the people here. |
WTH are you stuck up there in the middle o' GD nowhere??? Why not move to the lower 48??? What you save in shipping alone would be HUGE!!!
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jkruger
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Just think about it Curt. If you lived in say... Wichita or oklahoma City you would almost smack in the middle of the states.
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| jkruger wrote: | | Just think about it Curt. If you lived in say... Wichita or oklahoma City you would almost smack in the middle of the states. |
i was thinking VA or the carolinas... US real estate is in the crapper, you could pick up a house w/ land for a workshop for a song.....
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| overclkr wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: |
It was a fluke that I trolled videogon this AM before I dove into boards, and managed to snag the set. |
Man you have been on FIRE lately Curt!
Wonder what's wrong with it.........
It's funny how (knock on wood), all three of my G90's are still humming away on the original Dallas chips. One of them has over 16,000 I believe hours on it too. I guess I'm lucky.
I have always made sure though to keep them powered (standby). Maybe that has something to do with it?
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Ya know Cliff. After scouring over these G90 schematics lately, I see how this dreaded chip is in direct communication with the Dallas. It wouldn't be out of the question that its failure could be related to the Dallas. Just some words of thought and maybe have a Dallas with a good battery at all times. Remember, if there is a power failure and the Dallas battery is weak......all could be lost.... Just some words of thought.
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| macgyver655 wrote: | | overclkr wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: |
It was a fluke that I trolled videogon this AM before I dove into boards, and managed to snag the set. |
Man you have been on FIRE lately Curt!
Wonder what's wrong with it.........
It's funny how (knock on wood), all three of my G90's are still humming away on the original Dallas chips. One of them has over 16,000 I believe hours on it too. I guess I'm lucky.
I have always made sure though to keep them powered (standby). Maybe that has something to do with it?
Cliffy |
Ya know Cliff. After scouring over these G90 schematics lately, I see how this dreaded chip is in direct communication with the Dallas. It wouldn't be out of the question that its failure could be related to the Dallas. Just some words of thought and maybe have a Dallas with a good battery at all times. Remember, if there is a power failure and the Dallas battery is weak......all could be lost.... Just some words of thought. |
Oh, and I hope your banging on all the wood in your house after that comment......... 
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Curt Palme
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WTH are you stuck up there in the middle o' GD nowhere??? Why not move to the lower 48??? What you save in shipping alone would be HUGE!!! |
The first time I talked to immigration about working/moving to teh US, I got blacklisted, and got called into customs every time I crossed... for 3 months.
The second time I talked to immigration, I foreworded my question with ' can I ask you a question without getting blacklisted?'.
They then told me that 'repairs', even of high tech stuff is not considered 'leading edge' technology, and the US doesn't want me. Since I am self employed, they were concerned that I'd drive to the US... one way, and never come back.
Now that the US Navy is inquiring for me to repair projectors, who knows, maybe things have changed, but lugging 100+ projectors across the border will be a bitch! 
BTW, Canada is the same way, they don't want USers coming into Canada to do work, as they 'take work away from Canadians'.
I was witness to a guy that flew into Seattle from Chicago, rented a car to come to Vancouver to do warranty work on some big software package that the company he worked for. He had no paperwork, and didn't clear it with Canada Customs before showing up, so they refused him entry, and told him to go back to Seattle to get the paperwork cleared.
Trust me, it sucks, but ya gotta play by the rules. No kidding that I'd save a ton of money in customs/shipping if I lived somewhere central to the US.
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | emdawgz1 wrote: |
WTH are you stuck up there in the middle o' GD nowhere??? Why not move to the lower 48??? What you save in shipping alone would be HUGE!!! |
The first time I talked to immigration about working/moving to teh US, I got blacklisted, and got called into customs every time I crossed... for 3 months.
The second time I talked to immigration, I foreworded my question with ' can I ask you a question without getting blacklisted?'.
They then told me that 'repairs', even of high tech stuff is not considered 'leading edge' technology, and the US doesn't want me. Since I am self employed, they were concerned that I'd drive to the US... one way, and never come back.
Now that the US Navy is inquiring for me to repair projectors, who knows, maybe things have changed, but lugging 100+ projectors across the border will be a bitch!
BTW, Canada is the same way, they don't want USers coming into Canada to do work, as they 'take work away from Canadians'.
I was witness to a guy that flew into Seattle from Chicago, rented a car to come to Vancouver to do warranty work on some big software package that the company he worked for. He had no paperwork, and didn't clear it with Canada Customs before showing up, so they refused him entry, and told him to go back to Seattle to get the paperwork cleared.
Trust me, it sucks, but ya gotta play by the rules. No kidding that I'd save a ton of money in customs/shipping if I lived somewhere central to the US. |
Thats Bull!!
There's 100 guys standing in the home depot parking lot right nowwaiting for work. They arent High tech workers....INS aint bothering them.
Curt, you need to be a bit more "creative" in describing your tech skillz!
Look into a TN visa.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
http://www.internationalcenter.umich.edu/immig/tnvisa/
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