Plus in California we cannot legally throw them away. They go to the
hazardous waste facility. Now anything that has a circuit board (they say
uses power such as battery or A/C) has to go there too. Includes cell
phones, TV remotes, radios, etc. Dan KI6X
-----Original Message-----
From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Donald Chester
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:28 PM
To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] F-240 Ferrite Core source?
>From: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
>Take a trip to your local TV repair shop, & ask if you might do some
>dumpster diving therein...!
>
You guys still have TV repair shops up there? I haven't seen one of those
in years. Nowadays everybody just assumes a TV set is a throw-away item.
When TV's quit using tubes, most of the repair shops shut down, or moved
onto other things like computer repair. Solid state TV's usually run 4-5
years before showing signs of trouble, so people just replace them when they
malfunction.
When I was a kid, I used to regularly pull discarded TV chassis from the
junk pile behind a local TV shop. Tube type TV's were a good source of
parts, and a couple of HV power supplies wired in series would produce about
750 volts at 300-400 milliamps, enough to run a 100 watt plate modulated
transmitter.
Don k4kyv
Don k4kyv
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