Questions relating to electrical / electronic repair. Please ensure your questions are somewhat generic in nature so they are likely to help future visitors and not too localized to a specific piece of equipment.

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Powering Laptop internal monitor

So I have a problem with my old laptop. Internal monitor is not working. External is working. So I tried to understand what's the problem. I tried to check if inverter is broken. It get's a good 19V ...
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Repair a xbee wire antenna?

last year I bought a xbee pro s2b, the wire antenna one. After some use, the antenna started to loose, and last week it just broke. Is there a way to repair it? I soldered it again, and it holded some ...
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Weller WRS3000 Airflow Problem

I inherited this repair station from my job, it was deemed no longer worth keeping since it isn't working. I have gone through the manual and reset the unit to factory conditions, and everything ...
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replacing plug on headset with volume control

I have a pretty expensive set of philips headphones with a volume control on the lead that lost sound in one ear, I couldn't fix it and keep the original plug. Having removed it, I'm at a loss as to ...
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2.1 sound system noise

I have a 2.1 small sound system that makes a high frequency noise when turned on, whether the input is grounded or not. I've opened it and measured the frequency of that noise with a scope and it is ...
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Replacement for 5610 Transistor

I have a circuit (from a RC car) that uses a 5610 transistor, which can't find in store. Is there any equivalent transistor? Here are pictures of the board (click here for high resolution images): ...
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Need to know what this component is

An nVidia PNY Quadro 4000 landed in my lap, this graphics card is messed up - no video out, but the green LED on it indicates that it has power, the fan spins, windows even recognizes it (with an ...