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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:03 am Post subject: Oh the horror!

It's actually pretty rare that something electronic blows up at my place.

For the first time in 18 months I turned on my trusty 9500LC on my ceiling, as my satellite dish crapped out during the snowstorm and needed a reboot. THe 9500 has been percolating on the ceiling, and I turned it on actually last August to see if it still powered up. It did, but was out of convergence, so I turned it off again.

Today, I grab the remote and power up. BAM! The all too familiar sound of blowing MOSFETS, and the set doesn't power up.

Dammit! Mr. Green

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Uh oh!!!! Powersuply!!!!????!!!! HDM????!!!????

Do tell!!!!

Nashou

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:50 am Post subject:

Ya know Curt's the only one I know that:

a) Is happy that his projector blows up
and
b) know the sound of the part blowing up

Laughing

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:56 pm Post subject:

No, not happy at all. Do you know anyone that can fix it? Razz

Jeremy112 · Joined: 28 Sep 2006 Posts: 2649 Location: Fond du Lac, WI

Ahh blowing FETS, nothing more exciting!... Well, maybe old capacitors flying out of a receiver?? had that happen once because I reversed the polarity of it and didnt realize I did so! Talk about awesome, all the cardboard stuff in it flying all over the place, was quite a show and scared everyone in the room! Mr. Green

the love of electronics Smile

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

raster was a jerk that used to post on AVS years ago. For some reason, he never came over here, which was a good thing.

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject:

raster was an idiot over at avs that claimed he was god's gift to CRT projectors... running Svideo to a Sony 1272. he told me numerous times I had no idea what I was talking about, so of course every opportunity I had to get him to paint himself into a corner, I took full advantage of. Smile

Actually, it started by him calling me out as a scam artist or something like that, that I overcharged for repairs, etc. You can imagine my reaction.. Smile

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject:

No, but I think you're an idiot. Razz

(that was a JOKE!)

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I guess it was a bad joke then. Curt jokingly asked if anyone could fix his pj. I jokingly implied that maybe you or maybe raster could fix it. I thought Curt would like the dig with raster for reasons he mentioned in his post.

HaydnG90 · Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 1356

It was a bit of an insider joke. Only those who used to inhabit the AVS CRT forum before the meltdown would appreciate the reference.

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

Too bad avs crashed. I did find a bunch of his posts, but none were hysterical enough to link to. It was his early posts as a newbie that were link-worthy.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

Does Curt even use a CRT projector for watching things like TV and movies?

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject:

I sure do, but my main TV is a 72" Barco RP set run at 1080i via a Faroudja processor. I always fall asleep in front of it. 44K hours, original tubes, brightness and contrast at about 50. Good tube emission as well, go figure.