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Comment on ISBN 10/13 Converter in Excel by amit

amit — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:54:25 +0000

it made my work very simple

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Mike F

Mike F — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:51:44 +0000

Thanks for the post, I just fixed my 42″ plasma same way. I actually did the repair after reading about it on another website, just replaced the caps that were bulging and leaking, and when I put it back together it didn’t even turn on so I thought I had really messed up bad. After reading some of the responses on here I figured I should double check everything maybe I had soldered in a capacitor backwards or something. When I got back in the TV I saw the capacitors were soldered correctly, however I forgot to plug in a connector. Plugged it in and it fired right up. Thanks for the help!

Comment on Glorum, Forum by Isabel Echeverry

Isabel Echeverry — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:43:16 +0000

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Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:23:12 +0000

I have a Philips 50 inch plasma tv, bought in 2006, # 50PF9431D/37. It blinks red 6 times and won’t come on with the remote–only after I unplug the power cord, wait, plug it back in–it comes on.
After reading your posts, looks like I might have to replace capacitors. I don’t know how to fix tvs/solder, etc. How much would it cost to have someone come out to fix it?
Please help. I hate to use the excuse that I’m a woman, but I live by myself….

Thanks.

Comment on Fixing a plasma TV by Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:00:39 +0000

I have a 42″ Phillips Plasma TV, Model 42PF7220A-37 that I bought in March of 2006. In October of 2009 it started having the color strips, then only the top half of the screen worked, and then in November is stopped working altogether. I took it to a local repair shop and for $335 they replaced the Y buffer. Everything was okay until June of 2011 when it started going black with no sound for 10-20 seconds periodically. This has continued with increasing frequency. I did receive an email notice recently from a law firm that a class action lawsuit was filed against Phillips claiming a faulty power supply was installed in TVs like mine in the time frame that mine was built. If the court okays the claim, Phillips (in all their generosity) will give me a $165 voucher for other Phillips products, or a big bad $65 in cash, if I have it repaired and send them proof of the repair, i.e. a receipt for service that will probably cost several hundred dollars. Of course the lawyers will get over $1,000,000 for their efforts! So….thanks to all of you who have contributed to this site, to my dad who taught me a thing or two about electronics, and to Ampex and Stanford University’s Radioscience Laboratory that gave me jobs as a young adult, I will endeavor to repair this set myself and let you know of my results in a few days, as I will have to get parts.

Comment on What people find hard about Linked Data by Problems of Linked Data (3/4): Publishing data

Problems of Linked Data (3/4): Publishing data — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:48:57 +0000

[...] "twitter,facebook,delicious,google_plusone,digg,hackernews,favorites,email,print";In the blog post What people find hard about Linked Data, Rob Styles covered the difficulties that people face when they first learn about publishing Linked [...]

Comment on Bringing FRBR Down to Earth… by British Library Data Model: Overview | Talis Consulting

British Library Data Model: Overview | Talis Consulting — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:02:30 +0000

[...] My view is that none of these questions result in complex answers like “The book is a work which is a manifestation of an idea by a person who may or may not have actually written the words contained in the book, of which I hold one example of in my hands”. We simply don’t do that in our everyday understanding of what a book is. Rob Styles eloquently articulated this in his blog post Bringing FRBR down to earth. [...]

Comment on ISBN 10/13 Converter in Excel by azul

azul — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:58:15 +0000

Thanks, this is wonderful, how would this go for openoffice? is it hard to convert?

Thanks for your work!
Ruben

Comment on ISBN 10/13 Converter in Excel by Vrushabh

Vrushabh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:44:35 +0000

it is amazing and work perfectly

Comment on ISBN 10/13 Converter in Excel by peter hayward

peter hayward — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:27:29 +0000

Well thank you so much I had put together a converter based upon a mathematics formula and it worked perfectly in one direction but not the other, I realised that the translation of formula to excel function was probably the culprit, however now thanks to you I do not have reinvent the wheel as your solutions work fine

Regards Pete