Dave's TV Service and Repair. 938 SW 6th Grants Pass Oregon. (541) 479-3915

Welcome to Dave's Electronics Repair &
Antenna service.

Servicing Grants Pass since 1995.
Store hours are 10:30 to 5:30 Monday through Friday.
938 SW 6th street. Grants Pass Oregon
541-479-3915

For those who saw my youtube videos and came here desiring to learn more about do it your self TV repair, Scroll down this page and you will find many links to free instructional videos. Sources for parts, books, and test equipment.
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Click on these books to sample their contents, or you can read my own summary of them by
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Mike's TV repair case histories.
This is a yearly paperback publication which has the combined repair histories from many different television repairmen. In this book the technicians share their records as to which parts or boards they replaced to fix many different symptoms. The latest edition has over 850 problems and solutions.
Click on book to learn more

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Satisfaction is assured. (10-day return privilege . Out of 26,170+ sold over the last 27 years only Three have been returned.
Click on the book to learn more. Read the testimonials.

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How to Solder.
Un-soldering those difficult to remove components.
Understanding AC and DC part 1
Understanding AC and DC Part 2
Diodes and Bridge rectifiers
Inductive Reactance
Electromagnetic Induction
Understanding watts in relation to volts & amps.
Volts, amps and resistance made simple
Isolation Transformers
How to test Diodes
Repairing broken antenna connectors on TVs
Finding a short to ground using this special technique
LCD backlight
POLAROID TV FLM2601 Repair Tip
Astar LTV3001 Repair Tip
Polaroid FLM1911 SVA Computer monitor
SVA 2400W-BD Screen is all White
Sharp LC13SHIU HALF OF SCREEN IS DARK
Emerson EWL20S5C
Vizio LCD TV
Watch norcal715 repair his Vizio mainboard.
Finding a shorted component
Click here to see how one gentleman repaired a
bad LCD display panel
bad LCD display panel part 2
Common LCD Display problems
Plasma TV . Learn from my mistake.
How to test capacitors
Toshiba Plasma TV 50HP16
Samsung Plasma TV PN50A550S1FXZA
RCA MODEL L37WD12YX1 Repair
Polaroid TLX04244B
Salvaged TV parts. warning about some retailers.
LCD TV Backlights overheating transformers on Samsung LN40B550K1F
Is my T-CON board bad or LCD display?
Vizio TV Repair. Inverter board mystery solved. E470VLE
Sony KDL-32EX400 Broken CCFL
LG Model 47LS4500 Bad Diode
LG Plasma TV Model # 50PJ350-UB
Sharp LC-70LE733U problem solved.
Watch norcal715 repair a bad LCD Display tab bonding problem.
The danger of getting your LCD display wet.
Hisense 55K610GWN Repair History
Soldering Microscope. Why you should have one.
Hot air rework soldering tutorial
Troubleshooting and voltages by Norcal715. Great tutorial

.RCA Model 39LB45RQ EEPROM Repair on main board

Proscan PLED5529AC Repair. Using A watt meters to check power consumption

Upgrading to a better Diode. Emerson LC320EM2

The value of using a coil ringer. In this case the blue ring tester.

Power Adapters And Battery Chargers

Free Energy From Radio Waves

Fuel pump diagnosis while driving

SCEPTRE LCD TV. Model number X409BV. This repair was done using an infrared heat sensor.

Infrared detector in TV caused remote control not to work.
VCR EATS TAPES. THE MOST COMMON CAUSE #1

VCR EATS TAPES. THE MOST COMMON CAUSE #2

LED Backlight problems in TVs and Computers.

2006 Hummer H3 door and window control panel repair.

Part 2 regarding the Hummer H3 repair and the use of conductive pant

Easy way to pull wires through walls by Tampatec.
Blind trust in electronic repair kits can blow things up.
Troubleshooting a bad circuit using ohms law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixitL9nhNlc&t=1s

Your Multimeter Can Blow Things Up.

The mysterious back spike is not free energy.

Digital TV Channel Misunderstandings, & TV Antenna Myths.

Corrosion in slide switches can produce misleading symptoms. TV repair Gods

TV signal direction finder and frequency indicator.

In Parts & Service Manuals.
ShopJimmy.com. Good place for Salvaged boards. Many technicians
speak well of them.
(877) 881-6492

Digi-Key Corporation.
http://www.digikey.com/
I-800-344-4539

B&D Enterprises, Good source for electronic parts and very helpful staff.
1-800-458-6053

Mouser Electronics
http://www.mouser.com/
1-800-346-6873

Excellent place to find transistors and ICs
http://www.findchips.com

Click here for a good place to buy inverter boards transformers and more for LCD TVs.
1-888-785-7288

CCFL Warehouse Replacement lamps for LCD TV's

Suburban Electronics.1-800-341-5353

Service manuals.net

Freeze spray and tuner cleaner
1-800 655-1675
Tell Camile Dave's TV sent you and save.

Sams Technical Manuals / Schematics

Encompass Parts
1-800-432-8542

http://www.partstore.com/
1-866-925-PART(7278)

NTE cross reference for Semiconductors,
resistors, transformers and more.

Datasheetcatalog has datasheets for many electronic parts.

Acme sales

Union Electronics

TV Repair Kits.

Sony product support

Discussion Forums & Misc
Here is a good Q and A discussion forum for electronics enthusiasts.

SMD Resistor Code Calculator

Resistor calculator for 4, 5, and 6 bands.

Disc capacitor codes and conversions

More simple Disc capacitor conversions

Simple math for adding resistors or speakers in parallel

A mans danger from the women he loves.

Roy Masters, and the nature of Love.

Jestine Yongs website

John Perher's web site

http://www.repairfaq.org/

Is Television repair a good profession?

Tips on using ESR Capacitor meters

Intripid Video and electronics

http://www.noahtec.com/

http://www.tvhistory.tv/repair-info.html

How long do LCD TVs last ? Check out this Poll

Randy Fromm's youtube chennel. Great channel for those who want to learn more about electronics.

Getting started in electronics by Forest Mims
This is an excellent beginners book on electronics.

OPTO-ISOLATORS
I found this article on testing Opto-isolators very helpful.

Soldering and temperature

Servicetron.com This site has some free training manuals.

Bad Caps Forum

The problems you may encounter buying salvaged circuit boards on ebay.

The decline of hobby electronics

Fun Stuff

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Free Energy From The Air

Plasma TV how it works.

Solar Furnace melts rock.

Invisible driver prank

Picking up a huge bolder

Using electromagnetism to open a coconut

My antenna experiment. Flying my kite with wire.

Shop organization and useful products tips
Free Energy From Radio Waves
Free Energy Vs the laws of physics

The astounding athletic power of quadcoptershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ

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test
TV REPAIR HACK

Lightning experiment and damage to home electronics.

My magnetic toys

A fake IRS agent tells me I'm going to jail.

Polarized light demonstration.

Home made UFO with my camera on a kite

Homemade UFO #2 with 48 LEDs

Television Manufacturing Documentary From The Late 1950's
Electrotherapy Healing Machines.

Hand held Tesla Gun.

Grinding down America and other thought provoking videos.

((( 7 MINUTE MEDITATION )))

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Inspirational teachings from Jesus

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Fun Stuff

Scroll down index and click on free video tutorials.
(or)
Click here to subscribe to my youtube channel.