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Six Bravo's avatar

Great tweet from Taleb. Thanks for sharing it.

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H J's avatar

Enjoyed reading the digest especially about Steve Jobs building Heathkits. I built two TVs from Heathkits, one a tube type in 1969 and a solid state one in about 1980. Both were our family TVs for over ten years each. Both had beautiful color and picture. This taught me a lot about electronics and how to do great solder joints. This knowledge came in handy about 7 years ago. The power supply went out on our Samsung smart TV. I took the back off and saw it had two puffed up capacitors. I got in touch with Samsung and they had an authorized repair shop in Decatur, about 25 miles away. I called them and they said they would only replace the entire PS circuit board for $300 in my house or $200 if I brought the TV to them.

I got the capacitor specs and found them online for less than $1.00 each. Postage was about $3.00. After receiving the caps I unsoldered the bad ones and replaced with new ones. This corrected the problem. We used the TV another year or two and gave it to our son who used it for about 3 more.

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