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Luuk neele
Joined: 04 Mar 2015
Posts: 186
Location: Wijk bij duurstede, the Netherlands.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:57 pm Post subject: picking up an ECP 4100 |
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Hey,
i'm picking up an ECP 4100 tomorrow, set was in storage.
guy lets it go for 15 bucks, shouldnt be a bad catch, right?
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Tim in Phoenix
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 4409
Location: Phoenix
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Hello
Free is too much. Get ready for serious reliability problems and few or no parts to fix a unit from 1985. Dried out caps and tarnished connections await you.
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Luuk neele
Joined: 04 Mar 2015
Posts: 186
Location: Wijk bij duurstede, the Netherlands.
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| Tim in Phoenix wrote: | Hello
Free is too much. Get ready for serious reliability problems and few or no parts to fix a unit from 1985. Dried out caps and tarnished connections await you. |
huh, is it really that unreliable? it's not from 1985, its supposedly manufactured somewhere in 1994.
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Nashou66
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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Location: West Seneca NY
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Luuk neele
Joined: 04 Mar 2015
Posts: 186
Location: Wijk bij duurstede, the Netherlands.
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the ampro is still not working, though the ECP's status is also unclear. might skip this one and repair the ampro first, it wont display cause it comes up with a vertical sweep faillure.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008
Posts: 767
Location: pittsburgh, pa
TV/Projector: ECP 4500 (Vidikron box), ECP4500+, wanting 07MS/07MTS, evaluating pc soft-blend
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Last Friday night playing indoor soccer in an adult rec league, I got a nailed in the cookies with the ball, tweaked a gimpy ankle, and worse yet - we lost. Considering that each game works out to $12 or so (before post-game beer), I think one can safely say $15 and a Saturday spent toying with an ECP of unknown condition is better than many alternatives we each -- surely -- chose regularly.
That said, I expect many of you might consider taking one in the groin over messing with an ECP...I dunno. 
Matt
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draganm
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 8990
Location: Colorado
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| Luuk neele wrote: | | . might skip this one and repair the ampro first, it wont display cause it comes up with a vertical sweep faillure. |
the Ampro or the ECP?
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UncleWill
Joined: 11 Dec 2012
Posts: 417
Location: Northern Virginia (outside Washington DC)
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Sounds like a deal to me!
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