JL Sargent
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Not exactly what your wanting but have a read anyway:
I know of one nich in the money making world right now that could be exploited by you. Seems everybody with a General Motors truck type vehicle from 03 to 07 is having trouble with the instrument cluster going coo coo. The speedometer quits working properly is usually the first thing to fail. IE: showing 120mph when your really only going 55. Anyway I just had this exact problem with the wifes Tahoe. Dealer wanted $400.00 to fix it with a cluster swap. So I start reading on the net that you can swap the stepper motors behind the gauges and that will fix the problem. Sure enough I found a full set of steppers on Ebay for about $30.00.
I then followed the instructions I got with the motors which were basically: Pulling the trim, pulling the cluster, disassemble, mark needles, desolder, resolder in all new motors on the back of the clusters circuit board, reinstall everything, presto it was done. Took me about 2hours and $30 to do it myself. I see other outfits doing it for $200.00.
Now this was unexpected: I have had two other people call me from my wifes work (as office of 8 or so people) to see if I would repair their clusters and how much. If I didn't already have enough irons in the fire I would be really temped to give this a go. You certainly could make some dollars doing it if you can follow instructions and desolder/solder pins on a circuit board.
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When I turn the key off with the engine at 6K+ rpm I don't lose power steering or power brakes. Only after the crankshaft stops moving do I lose that stuff and by then I bet I have her slowed waaay down.
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Too bad there is still 1/2 a season to go. Brett's 40yr old arm looks real good right now, but how bout week 16? Lets consider that for now. Whole lotta work left to do.
I wonder if you asked players around the league about ol' Brett, what would they say? I'm thinking manipulator.
Now if I compare Brett the worst acting 3 or 4 at the bottom of the whole NFL, Yes, he does look mighty fine.[8-)]
Being over 40 myself, I really hope Brett's body hangs in there for the long haul, but I'm not counting on it.
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To be clear I had two thoughts about him. He is a great manipulator #1 and He is a great 40yr old quarterback #2.
Stormin, yes those things you wrote are true. Its also true that Farve manipulated the Packers and the Jets based on retirement promises. Last time I checked he isn't retired, but thats right now. I like Ol' Brett and hope he does good, but he is what he is.
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I'm not sold on Farve as a class act necessarily, but he is one hell of a manipulator and 40yr old QB. Now that I am sold on!
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Yeah, really. Pass the cranberry sauce.
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Those crossovers are so impressive looking. I think you should have mirrored corners or such to show them off. Or maybe have the crossovers displayed on top, that might be cool too. They are downright massive.
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Am I the only one who thinks Tom has a man crush on Al? [6]
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OK, got ya. I'm interested getting video up on an LCD type monitor on mine though, not so much still photography.
That is a nice looking microscope.
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I have a nice binocular inspection microscope. I want a good camera/video screen for it.They make cameras that slide down one of the eyepiece tubes. That would work for me. Is there a camera on this Nikon?
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Cool, lets get back to figuring out what to do with 901s.[
]I have a pair of series II Bose 901s w/ equalizer and with the correct tulip stands. The have been properly refoamed. I have been listening to them with a good subwoofer and to be honest I like them. Yes, you can call it sound everywhere, etc. but thats ok. They really pump out the precussions, like with Dave Mathews Band or similar.
Now I really like the 901s as surrounds in home theatre application. Thats what I want to go back to. I have some big Dukane squawkers over Altec bass horns for my fronts, an Advent center, Cerwin Vega sub, and lastly the 901s as surrounds. Yes, it looks like a speaker collection from a midnight autoparts, but It sounds good to us!
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"Lipo-Flavonoid?"
I have not heard of this but will ask about it the next time I'm in the drug store. As for my hearing loss, I really have been trying to us my hearings 16K cutoff freq. to my advantage. Been enjoying horn loaded active 2 way setups. Not too worried about 20Khz anymore.
Yeah, that would be one scary sight to look over and see a B-52 in that precarious position.
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Just to follow up on this. I replaced all the audio caps on this unit with orange drops and I still had the tone?!? So looking at the schematic Mike provided and I realized the suspected culprit was a side circuit of some sort as Mike had suggested and I snipped that newly installed .047 uf cap out and the tone is gone. I also noticed the amp is has noticably more gain now than before. I've been listening for a while and all sounds real good and amp appears happy. This was a cheap upgrade that really makes a difference. All the help with this appreciated.
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<I have refoamed them and when I play them, they rattle.....I need advice on how to stop the vibrating.
Most likely depositing them in the trash bin will solve your problem. If you can still hear them rattle, try moving your trash can down to the curb.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, Mr Def Tech home theatre listener. [
] I'm thinking those 901s would sound better than speakers in your present system. Maybe you should take your own advice. -
That helps alot. I have my orange drop order in from AES so I will replace everthing thats needed and forego whats not. Hopefully it still makes music when I'm done.[
]Thanks.
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Sounds like your halfway there as far as stopping the rattle. Its a damping game. Dampen whats moving and the rattle goes away.
By the way, a pair of good 901s make awesome surround speakers if you have a home theatre.
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We were at Sams Club the other night. I looked the wall of TVs over and there was one LED among at least a doz. LCDs. My wife walked up and I asked her to pick out the best picture of all those sets. She looked them over carefully and picked the LED. It was a Sharp or similar brand with Sonys and Samsungs in the mix. I don't know if the LED was backlit or sidelit but it was a noticably brighter/warmer picture than than any of the LCDs regardless of brand.
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I've read all that about three times so far. Thanks alot!
Mike, so it would seem I can eliminate the few barrel caps from the circuit anyway? I also noticed these are "dart" barrel caps where the ceramic coupling caps are not? I certainly want to clean it up as much as possible. I'm gonna go back and look at that picture you posted of yours a while back. Thanks again.
ON EDIT: Looking at the photo of the underside of your Maggie SEP amp it appears there are two barrel type caps needed?
Do you know a source for a nice clean schematic for these amps with tuner and tone circuits removed?
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A properly designed and installed basement usually does not leak. I have a 1600 sq ft basement. Most of it is 7+ft deep too. At 15yrs old we have not had one leak. It cost $10.00 a sq. ft. to build. It has surely been money well spent.
Another good reason to have a basement is to get your feet off concrete in the living area of your house! I guess that's why there are different options for folks. We all like different things. I would rather have Ace's leak with T&G over joists to walk on than a dry concrete slab under foot.
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When your basement floor was poured they may have first put down some heavy plastic sheeting. This will act as a barrier against the water but only to the edge of the plastic. I suspect the water you may be getting there is from under the slab.
You could measure the levelness of your concrete floor. Is that the lowest place on the slab?
You could cut a hole in the floor to check for water under the slab.
As you mentioned water will take the path of least resistance but that path could be from anywhere around or under that room. Sounds like that wall you reworked is dry, look elsewhere.
Make darn sure that all storm water flows away from the house. You also might also consider gutter extensions to further carry away water.
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Thanks for the great replys guys. Ok, so I have a SEP.
Mike, did you build that SET amp in the photo? Real sweet looking unit.
db101, I'll give that test a try on this cap.
Is leaking DC likely causing the hum I hear? Tapping on the cap also changed the tone momentarily.
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My little 6BQ5 SEP amp has developed a hum on one channel. I'm using it with an active setup driving my horns. It started humming a few days ago on one side. I just knew it was one of the output tubes so I swapped it out to no avail. Getting louder and real annoying I lauching a real hunt. While listening, I turned the amp on its side and began tapping the caps underneath with a pencil. Sure enough an old Archer .047 600v barrel cap seems to be the culprit. With a couple of good pencil raps the noise totally went away. I have ordered orange drops to replace all the audio path caps. How do you hunt down bad components? I'm sure there are much more sophisticated ways of doing it.[
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You can use the Luxman pre out going into the main in of the Marantz you will only have the 60wpc of the Marantz.
Maybe you can use the preamp on one feeding the power amps on both (each amp driving a pair of fortes) and have the total wpc of both.
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For a followup on this:
I checked on that one Dennis linked to and they won't sell just one.[
] Thats what I really want.So I have XLR line inputs on my reel to reel tape deck that are 100K ohm impedance and my preamp out is only 500ohms. They wouldn't talk too good so:
I picked up a cheap lot of barrel transformers off Ebay (6 assorted ones) and tried a pair of those. It did help but not enough so I stacked em 2 transformers on each channel. Eureka, it lives! Now this is weird, the transformers are connected back to back. For Low Zs on the outside connections and the high Zs back to back. I thought they would cancel each other out but no thats how it works the best! How can that be?
I tried connecting the high Z end of the barrel transformer to the high Z input on each channel of the tape deck and no sound at all. Flipped it and it worked but not quite loud enough.
So the tape machine is a high Z XLR connector and its connected with adapters to the Low Z on the first transformer. Then the other end (the high Z on that trans) is connected to the next high Z on transformer #2. Then the low Z connection on trans #2 is connected to the TAPE out on my preamp which is supposedly only 500ohm impedance. Amazingly this setup works without noticeable noise. How is this even working? Looks like I put the whole thing together from a midnight autoparts store but it does work.
Anybody know how/why this crazy setup works? Interesting to me that if I used only one transformer per channel it would work but only backwards to the impedance logic! If I connected the high Z on tape machine to the recommended high Z side of one trans it was a no go.
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] I'm thinking those 901s would sound better than speakers in your present system. Maybe you should take your own advice. 
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] Thats what I really want.
Lets Go Phillies
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That's that with that.
So thats #5 for the four amigos. Jeter, Posada, Rivera, and who?