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**Curt Palme**

I'm quite proud of this box. I started this about 3-4 years ago, and started throwing in virtually every defective part that I pulled out of PC boards and projectors and anything else I've ever touched. About 18 months ago, the box was overflowing, so I was gonna throw the box out, but instead, went to a larger box. I try and play basketball and throw bad parts into this box from across the shop, wherever I am.

I usually miss. Once a month, when I go rooting around my tube stock that sits next to the box, I clean up said parts and fill the box. Well, it's almost time to get to an even larger box. Since I'd say 99% of the parts in this box are defective, as my 'educated guess' ratio is pretty high, there's very few good parts in this box, and what you see is everything that's gone bad in a set over the last 3-4 years.

It weighs a good 20 lbs or so, and contains several thousand dollars worth of chips n'stuff.

Should I eBay this box? Thumbs Up

Mr. Green · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:41 am Post subject:

Hey! You have some clear work surface right above the outlets!!! Wink

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

I'm astonished you've only filled a box THAT small!!!

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:50 am Post subject:

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

LOL. I was going to say, if your going to start working on plasmas and LCD's, you better get a much,, much bigger box... Laughing

Axatax · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:22 am Post subject:

Curt,

In the last several months, I've seen lots of sawed-off card edge connectors and older chips like Pentium Pros sell for astronomical prices with gold now upward of $1100.00/oz (Think $200+ for a pound of card edge connectors or 20 Pentium Pro chips). No Joke.

Someone is able to recover this gold and they pay primo on Ebay for these components.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:42 am Post subject:

Damn, never thought of that! Let me get that box full, and I'll list it.

Thanks!

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

You should ebay the whole box just for giggles. Be sure to state clearly that it's likely that NOTHING works.

You'll still do pretty good with it, I'll wager.

CJ

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

So what's the secret Curt... only replace STK's Wink

Or is it to occasionally pull and play basketball with an HVblock... or is to to every now and again pull a coil off a G90 PA board Mr. Green

I am dying to know!

craigr

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

You have to buy the box to find out...... Laughing

Its like cracker jacks, the prize is hidden inside.........

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320467707007&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

Bid often! Very Happy

Check out the included bonus! Very Happy

tse · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1014 Location: Sweatbucket, Fl.

This is a tragedy. Dead video output modules used on CRT caligraphic projectors in commercial flight simulators. About $400 a pop.

Curiosity got me. There are 64 of them in the box.
Scott

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

As Ax pointed out, the recycle value of boards and especially CPU's is enormous. Whatever you do don't throw it in the trash.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:41 pm Post subject:

Scott, can you post a closeup of those modules? Who made them? Never seen anything like that before. Then again, I hadn't seen massive chips that they use as plasma output drivers until last week. Quite the learning experience.

My 14 year old daughter has just finished building her Christmas Tree project in grade 9 (20 out of 20 without any help from me!), using transistors and chips and LEDs, so I gave her the below plasma output board and told her to tell me what was wrong with it. Smile

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She guessed right Smile

The interesting thing was, there were two FETs in parallel, and only one was shorted. I removed it, and the plasma ran fine, albeit with the one FET running pretty damn hot. WHy there's room for a third one that was never put on the board confuses me. I'm guessing this board is used in larger plasmas (this one was a 50") and they only put in the third FET for larger models?

tse · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1014 Location: Sweatbucket, Fl.

A vidamp card from an older model. Beer bottle cap to show scale. The newer cards use two modules. The one shown drives the G-1 the other, 1902-2, drives the cathode.

http://www.mskennedy.com/client_images/catalog19680/pages/files/1903rb.pdf

Scott

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

Darn Curt! I thought you would have included a puppy or something as a bonus. Wink

1031 · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 657 Location: Finland

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

Hmmm, I have a bunch of broken crap. Maybe I should send it to the box. Smile