With a minimum of technical jargon, this best-selling guide shows and tells you how to troubleshoot and repair the most common TV problems�and avoid expensive repair bills! Even if your previous technical experience is limited to clicking the remote, this book can show you how to pinpoint your TV's problem and fix it�using just a few basic tools. This revised edition features a wealth of timely and practical new material on upgrades, too. You get information on universal remote transmitters, stereo TV, digital controls, new color circuits and picture tube sizes, and installing digital satellite receivers. A new "Symptoms and Causes" chapter makes troubleshooting quicker and easier than ever.
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The definitive do-it-yourself TV repair guide! Attention, TV lovers! This book is your best defense against any interruption in that source of fabulous entertainment sitting a remote-click away. Let's face it, nothing is worse than the TV going on the blink. No sports, no news, no game shows, no soaps, no talk, no cops-and-robbers. Life without TV is simply hardly worth living. It must be fixed, and pronto, but how? You can pay a stupendous amount for a house call or you can haul it to the repair shop yourself�and still be charged a fortune. This book offers a better way. It shows you how very simple repairing your own TV can be! Without technical jargon, it shows and tells you how to troubleshoot and repair the most common TV problems�and avoid those expensive repair bills! Photographs and charts lead you through each repair step-by-step. The book's emphasis is on pinpointing the problem and fixing it�using just a few basic tools. You also get plenty of material on simple ways to upgrade old TVs with new add-ons. This revised and expanded edition features a wealth of timely and practical new material on: Universal remote transmitters. Stereo TV; Digital controls; New color circuits and picture tube sizes; Installing digital satellite receivers. Plus, a new "Symptoms and Causes" chapter helps make troubleshooting quicker and easier than ever!
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Homer L. Davidson is one of the best-selling electronics authors of all time, with over 35 technical books and more than 1,000 magazine articles to his credit. He lives in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lacking in actual substance,
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This review is from: TV Repair for Beginners (Hardcover)
This book unfortunately does not live up to its hype. From reading the back cover, you'd think that you could fire up the ol' soldering iron and actually get some work done. Definitive repair guide? Definitely not.Information is too general, with circuits as block diagrams only. Considering the complexity of TV circuits, this is a no-no. Included schematics don't tell you what ICs or components do, with general references like IC304 and D101. You'd be hard pressed to make sense of a circuit even if you have electronics as a background. What more if you are a beginner? Better information, guidelines and help can be found over the net in the form of usegroups, independent and manufacturer's web sites. Bad way to spend 30 bucks...
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Smart Electronics,
By Antonio (MIami . Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: TV Repair for Beginners (Paperback)
I read this book before get my Consumer Electronic Certificateand I left impressed with the easy ways to explain all subjects
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Certainly not for Beginners,
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Certainly there are quite a lot of information in this book. But to say it's for beginners is misleading. The book lack organization. Many technical jargon is just put out without explanation. Sentences that need explanation are not explained. If you wanna start from scratch this is not the book for you, you may need to look for another book. However the book may be good as a reference for solving specific problems as done in the later chapters. But frankly I couldn't get any good understanding of TV inners from the first chapters. Also the figures are horrible. Name of ICs in the diagrams do not match the text description. And many diagrams for vital components are just black and white photographs that doesn't show you anything but confuse you.
Again, not recommended for a beginner or as a sole reference.
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Before embarking on a detailed, nontechnical description of various portions of a modern TV system, it is desirable to present a brief synopsis of the overall process, from end to end. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
color output transistors, horizontal output transistor, ion trap magnet, color amp, chroma amp, discriminator coil, leaky damper diode, vertical output transistors, tripler unit, horizontal output transformer, horizontal drive transistor, pincushion circuits, chassis shutdown, horizontal driver transistor, aqueduct coating, horizontal output circuits, picture tube socket, saw filter network, vertical foldover, burned bias resistors, improper vertical sweep, audio output circuits, horizontal hold control, vertical output circuits, main filter capacitor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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color output transistors, horizontal output transistor, ion trap magnet, color amp, chroma amp, discriminator coil, leaky damper diode, vertical output transistors, tripler unit, horizontal output transformer, horizontal drive transistor, pincushion circuits, chassis shutdown, horizontal driver transistor, aqueduct coating, horizontal output circuits, picture tube socket, saw filter network, vertical foldover, burned bias resistors, improper vertical sweep, audio output circuits, horizontal hold control, vertical output circuits, main filter capacitor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Troubleshooting and Repairing Camcorders by Homer Davidson in Front Matter
- Troubleshooting and Repairing Audio Equipment (TAB Electronics Technician Library) by Homer L. Davidson in Front Matter
- Telephone Repair Illustrated by Stephen J. Bigelow in Back Matter
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