Hisense 65-inch not loading(hanging) now repaired.

I got direct message on my FB account from a lady who wanted her television checked.

By the way we are not friends on FB but mutual friends and one of his friends complained about how is new television is misbehaving, I dropped a comment there and when this lady read my feedback she thought I can help in her case.

After contacting me we organized for the appointment for the site visit.

She provided her pin location and was able to reach her place effortlessly.

I was shown the television and I tried to reset (which the medical people call resuscitation) all in vain.

I went online and googled the model number then motherboard and I got the part was available at Aliexpress.com

I asked her if she was comfortable with board price and she agreed.

My electronics journey By Humphrey Kimathi

Life is a journey, today I feel I should digress a bit and share my personal story into the world of electronics, who knows it may encourage someone.

To make is short let me begin in high school, when I joined form one from primary school I found many new subjects which were not covered in primary school and among them was Physics which was considered a science subject.

I fell in love with this subject that even when guys pushed me big time in other subjects I always excelled in physics effortlessly.

After high I joined the A levels for those who follow Kenya curriculum (same with British that time)

In  A levels one was supposed to choose 3 subjects only and I took Mathematics, chemistry and Biology using the rich dad, poor dad way of thinking.

So I decided to pursue those subjects in the hope of becoming a doctor, when the results were out that dream was cut short according to the results I attained.

LG home theater model HT806 came in dead now repaired

 I got a phone call from one of my neighbor who wanted his home theater checked by a technician.

I passed by his place and took the machine to the shop, he has given me a hint that he suspects the machine was hit by power surge.

Once in the shop I applied power and indeed the machine was dead as dodo.

40 Inch Sony Bravia LED television came dead, Red light blinking 6 times, NOW REPAIRED

I got a whatsup message from my former colleague where I used to work but now working with an international organization (Red Cross) I.T department.

The message was, and I quote “My Sony Bravia model KLV-40R352B has a red light blinking 6 times, is it repairable” answer, Yes! Repairable while you wait! Okay, I will bring it tomorrow.

As you have noted I replied with confidence that the problem is repairable, Sony products has state of the art design in the market.

In case of any problem they go into shutdown(lockdown) to avoid further damages, for Sony Led television, the number of blinks point to the faulty circuit. A quick search on google for 6X blinks points to backlight failure.

The following day he brought the television but since I was going out for a meeting we agreed he collect the machine the following day.

The following day I came back to the shop and did not even remember to test if what he said is correct and therefore proceeded to open the television and went straight to the backlight section. You can learn how to access backlight like a pro here.

32 inch Skyworth LED television came in with symptoms” Logo comes on briefly” and then go into standby

I got this referral from my FB page, a client who was impressed by the work I share on my Facebook page about my repair work got interested and send a message that she has 32-inch television which need checking by a technician and suspected it was backlights.

From the symptoms she described even me I was convinced that the problem is on the backlight.

I booked her for appointment and send my location ping and the following day I got a phone call from the uber man that he is trying to reach my shop.

I went out and found the uber with a lady passenger at the back seat, with her was a 32-inch television.

The uber driver was released and we proceeded to the shop with the lady.

After reaching the shop the first thing to do is to confirm what the client said is correct and also make sure the screen is still intact.

The screen was okay and the symptoms were also confirmed to be exact.

I opened the television and after doing some board scanning I noted some three small capacitors on the output (actually led driver circuit which had their top silver lining slightly swollen.

How microwave oven works

Microwave oven popularly known as a microwave was invented by an American scientist Percy Spencer in 1958 by accident.

The use for microwaves as the preferred mode of cooking/warming food in seconds has become a preferred mode of cooking food by most families.

So how does the microwave work? First let me say that microwaves, unlike other cooking methods like gas and electric coils cook food using frequency.

21 Inch JCV Television came in dead NOW repaired!

I received a phone call from my neighbor who wanted his television checked by a technician, I passed by his place and picked the television.

 I went back to the shop and after applying power via my series current limiter bulb I noted the Television has no sigh of life.

 But listening carefully I could hear some chi-chi sound coming from I can’t tell exactly where. I opened the television and tested across the man capacitor and I get around 300 vdc which is not bad for those using 240 Vac.

 I tested across all the secondary outputs and I got less near zero volts on all outlets, I decided to switch the power off and do some resistance testing across all the secondary outputs, this was done across the secondary diodes and I noted one line was dead short.

 Upon close investigation I noted it was the B+ line and therefore decided to check the health of the HOT transistor and to my surprise it was dead short.