Currently viewing the category:
"tech"
It was a finicky job, but efm-7 replaced the cooked ICs and some of the resistors on the convergence board and our Hitachi TV is now working perfectly again. I’ll have to do a manual convergence soon and see how much better I can make the picture. Not all of the resistors were [...]
Did some more searching last night and managed to find a service manual for our Hitachi 43UWX10B in PDF format, along with other reports of this convergence system failure on other TVs of this type and vintage. This morning, I popped off the back panel and confirmed the following, which should help with [...]
Over the course of the last few weeks, our Hitachi Rear-Project HDTV has been increasingly mis-focussing its blue gun, resulting in blue and yellow shadows on screen. At 43″ and 153 pounds, we can’t just take it in for service, so the cost of simply getting an estimate could be high, given the need for [...]
OK, this has got to be the neatest add-on app for the iPhone that I’ve seen yet.
Having some sinus and breathing difficulties which are keeping me from getting to sleep, so I thought I’d at least get this done. Thankfully, it all went smoothly! Woohoo!
While the new springs have made Zhaan’s handling sharper and quicker, the increased negative camber in the rear has introduced marked understeer, negating the car’s natural tendency to rotate when pushed hard. That was all addressed today when Canadian Tire on Carling Avenue installed Eibach’s adjustable camber links and did a [...]
Hooked-up with LiMPiNg and installed my short-shifter. It was pretty straightforward and took us less than an hour. The pics below show exactly how large the new knob is,
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 this weekend. I thought it had gone smoothly, but things were broken. I couldn’t find any fixes on the forums aside from reports that a clean install would fix it. Did that things are OK.
Just thought I’d post a link to this listing of really neat, unpublicized features/tricks of the Google search bar.
I was reading a post on sensorymetrics regarding the quality of internet connections
computing
