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Bo-Lennart <bo-lennart.karlsson@telia.com>: May 10 07:19AM -0700 Hi....I have an PHILIPS PATTERN GENERATOR, model: PM5515. There is a problem with the display. Mostly it is dark, but sometime its working. When it's working, I can see that there are 2 segments out of order. I have looked everywhere for a new one, but I can't find it. The display is named: SI35035. Is there someone out there that know where I can find a new one (or a used, if its working).   The display is a module, included a 34-bit Shift register/34-bit latches and 34 bit buffer/driver for the four 7-segments LED digit. The data is feed into the module with I2C (SDA and SCL). There is also a pin DISPLAY ENABLE, that open up the SDA-signal to the display. Service-manual is here:   https://doc.xdevs.com/doc/PHILIPS/PHILIPS%20PM%205518%20Service.pdf   You can find the display at page # 39.   Can someone help me solve this problem?   Best regards from SWEDEN Bo-Lennart Karlsson   bo-lennart.karlsson@telia.com

"pfjw@aol.com" <peterwieck33@gmail.com>: May 09 10:50AM -0700 I think I distinguished between museum-pieces (used loosely) and tools. On more than one occasion, I have entrusted my life, health and dexterity to various tools, such that I would not wish to do so with Luddite-Approved technology. For the same reason that I use modern capacitors, modern resistors and similar when making repairs to vintage vacuum-tube equipment. But, I tend to use real tubes vs. modern solid-state devices - which exist in surprising numbers. At the same time there are occasions where I do use a modern solid-state device such as a VR-based plug-in ILO a 50A1 in a T/O, or a Weber "copper-top" rectifier ILO a 5AR4 so as to preserve scarce and costly original parts. But there is no modification to the original to do so.   Your signs are 'museum pieces'. A lamp is a tool. When I am working on my 'museum pieces', I want the best and most reliable tools I can afford. And I want my finished products to be safe, reliable and fit for present society. I do not subscribe to the belief that the Louis XIV Chair with rotting-but-original fabric has any value as a chair, as it is useless as such. THAT is a true museum piece.   Horses for Courses.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

tabbypurr@gmail.com: May 09 03:02PM -0700 On Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:41:57 UTC+1, J.B. Wood wrote: > compared to operation with a glow switch. In your previous post you > have reported a cause and effect but no accompanying hypothesis of why > that result differs.   you must have quite missed my explanation then.   > I have attempted to explain things using > established electrical theory ("theory" taken to mean "fact" in a > science/engineering context).   you guessed at the cause. It was a reasonable guess, but only a guess, and found to not be what's actually happening.   > "horrible" and that's why I initially responded. So I would conclude > you have provided an opinion, unsupported by theory. I have nothing > further to add. Sincerely,     NT

"J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com>: May 10 06:25AM -0400 > Horses for Courses.   > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA   Hello, and one person's junk (including "luddite-tech" radios) are another's treasures. The OP's lamp may not be a candidate for an auction but it may have sentimental value and perhaps the OP desires to keep it in original condition as much as feasible. That original fabric chair may well be worth more at auction than one with replacement fabric. Old radios with original components? Don't know if the same thing can be said. Sincerely, -- J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

tabbypurr@gmail.com: May 10 06:11AM -0700 On Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:25:22 UTC+1, J.B. Wood wrote: > chair may well be worth more at auction than one with replacement > fabric. Old radios with original components? Don't know if the same > thing can be said. Sincerely,   Some of today's junk will be tomorrow's antiques.   Some value the technology of the thing, some only care about the case.     NT

clifsmith33@gmail.com: May 09 02:55PM -0700 On Monday, September 13, 2010 at 12:32:15 AM UTC-5, David Nebenzahl wrote: > The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, > with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.   > - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)   Remove 6 screws from front, 1 screw and 1 nut for speaker jack on back. Get a couple of thin flat blade screwdriver to break the seal around the front metal cage to the plastic back cover. it should slide out easily.

dansabrservices@yahoo.com: May 09 04:55PM -0700 > > with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.   > > - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)   > Remove 6 screws from front, 1 screw and 1 nut for speaker jack on back. Get a couple of thin flat blade screwdriver to break the seal around the front metal cage to the plastic back cover. it should slide out easily.   You realize that the posting is over 5 years old right!!

John-Del <ohger1s@gmail.com>: May 10 04:34AM -0700 > > > - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)   > > Remove 6 screws from front, 1 screw and 1 nut for speaker jack on back. Get a couple of thin flat blade screwdriver to break the seal around the front metal cage to the plastic back cover. it should slide out easily.   > You realize that the posting is over 5 years old right!!       I called OP David Nebenzahl. For your information sir, he's been sitting by his computer staring at the screen for the last five years waiting for that very answer. While he's enormously grateful, he hasn't responded publicly with a thank you yet because he's not doing very well. It seems that in the last five years, he's ignored his health, is suffering from vitamin D deficiency, and put on a lot of weight. He also took up smoking. But with his amp now open, he'll be back in form in less than two years according to him...

"pfjw@aol.com" <peterwieck33@gmail.com>: May 10 05:30AM -0700 That was just cruel!   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

daniel.m.easa@gmail.com: May 09 07:47PM -0700 Wish I had found this about an hour earlier but thanks!

Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr>: May 09 09:15PM +0200 When I connect the power chord and switch on from the back there is a yellow led near the front panel power button.   If I press this button a green led shows up but disappears after about 3 seconds and the yellow one comes back. Nothing shows up on the screen.   Is it a stupid trouble I can fix myself? (internal fuse or similar)   Regards,   Jean-Pierre Coulon

"pfjw@aol.com" <peterwieck33@gmail.com>: May 09 12:55PM -0700 Manual here:   https://cdn.rohde-schwarz.com/pws/dl_downloads/dl_common_library/dl_manuals/gb_1/s/smf/SMF100A_OperatingManual_en_12.pdf   Page 31 addresses your concerns.   Generally, reading the manual for a complex piece of equipment can be helpful. I have been known to do it myself!   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

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