Couple years ago, I found a Toshiba 15DL15 TV in the flea market near my home. Bitch costed me $400.00MXN, which could've been used for a two days worth of food... anyway...
Bitch has VGA port, Component Ports, Composite Ports, Aux Audio IN/OUT port, bitch was a true beauty. It has a max/native resolution of 480x640... and guess which console also has that resolution? The Wii of course!
So, Wii + Component+ Bitch = Beautiful "retro" games.
Unfortunately, that joy lasted for about 3 months or so, because Bitch stopped turning on. Actually, it stopped receiving energy altogether. I tried changing power cables and even soldering the cable to the power input, but nothing worked.
Bitch is been dead since January 2021.
In the meantime, I've been trying to find a multimeter to test continuity and possibly find which part of the TV has gone bad.
It's been a two year struggle because SCHOLAR GRADE MULTIMETERS ARE ABOVE $700.00MXN... WTF?
And the ones I could find with continuity test only had like 4 functions at most, which of course, where a lot cheaper that "SchOlAr gRaDe fOr bEGinNers" ...
About two days ago, I finally saved enough to get a decent one, with continuity and other functions. The brand is PLUSIVO and it was relatively cheap. It's currently at $360.00MXN (in Amazon because I'm still locked out from my Mercado Libre account
) and I was considering getting that one because it said "for professional work"... not because I consider myself a pro... actually I'm far from that, way too far. But I'm assuming it should endure more than a "Scholar Grade" one.
But I couldn't find info on that brand, and that to me, says that it's probably Chinese, so, if I somehow ended up needing a piece for that, they'd probably be non existent or scarse.
So decided to play it fair and went with one from TRUPER which is a brand I have tools from and they've lasted and resisted hard treatment.
So, TRUPER is offering two models in Amazon, which are about the same price than the PLUSIVO one.
One was Scholar Grade, sitting at $200.00MXN or so. Varies between with/without free shipping... and another one, not Professional nor Scholar grade, was at $327.00MXN with "free" delivery... so I went with that one... it actually had more functions than the other one.
Today, I told my papa that I finally could buy me a much wanted multimeter, and he casually said:
"Oh! I have one!
Forgot until now that you mentioned it. I was going to tell you two weeks ago but forgot.
Here."
...
...
...
Sigh... the device he's referring to is this one:
Analog...
I wouldn't trust readings done with an Analog one.
But anyway, my rant here is the following...
Since the beginning of this year, I've been exclusively hunting for CRT monitors. I haven't found ANY AT ALL... UNTIL YESTERDAY WHEN I PAID AND SPENT ALL I HAD LEFT IN A DIGITAL MULTIMETER!
Literally, yesterday went to a store to pay for my Amazon product, my multimeter that is, and decided to go to the flea market to see if I could find a TRUPER one.
Didn't found a multimeter, but did found CRT MONITORS NEARLY EVERYWHERE
God damnit! Been hunting for them ENTIRE YEARS.
I don't have high hopes in CRT monitors nowadays, specially with my luck... speaking about finding one in "perfect" conditions... so even if I can get my hands in one, it'll probably have picture defects... or at the very least, will probably need a complete recap.
I just can't believe my luck, that when I have the money, no matter how much I hold it, I'll never find a CRT monitor. And as soon as I don't have money, bam, they appear in the wild.
This isn't the first time this exact same scenario has happened. Dinoh once replied to me: "lol same" one time I ranted about this same thing happening probably last year.
But anyway, now I have two multimeters....I hope I'll be able to diagnose my Bitch TV and fix it.
That'll make me a little bit happy.
*sigh*
Bitch has VGA port, Component Ports, Composite Ports, Aux Audio IN/OUT port, bitch was a true beauty. It has a max/native resolution of 480x640... and guess which console also has that resolution? The Wii of course!
So, Wii + Component+ Bitch = Beautiful "retro" games.
Unfortunately, that joy lasted for about 3 months or so, because Bitch stopped turning on. Actually, it stopped receiving energy altogether. I tried changing power cables and even soldering the cable to the power input, but nothing worked.
Bitch is been dead since January 2021.
In the meantime, I've been trying to find a multimeter to test continuity and possibly find which part of the TV has gone bad.
It's been a two year struggle because SCHOLAR GRADE MULTIMETERS ARE ABOVE $700.00MXN... WTF?
And the ones I could find with continuity test only had like 4 functions at most, which of course, where a lot cheaper that "SchOlAr gRaDe fOr bEGinNers" ...
About two days ago, I finally saved enough to get a decent one, with continuity and other functions. The brand is PLUSIVO and it was relatively cheap. It's currently at $360.00MXN (in Amazon because I'm still locked out from my Mercado Libre account
) and I was considering getting that one because it said "for professional work"... not because I consider myself a pro... actually I'm far from that, way too far. But I'm assuming it should endure more than a "Scholar Grade" one.But I couldn't find info on that brand, and that to me, says that it's probably Chinese, so, if I somehow ended up needing a piece for that, they'd probably be non existent or scarse.
So decided to play it fair and went with one from TRUPER which is a brand I have tools from and they've lasted and resisted hard treatment.
So, TRUPER is offering two models in Amazon, which are about the same price than the PLUSIVO one.
One was Scholar Grade, sitting at $200.00MXN or so. Varies between with/without free shipping... and another one, not Professional nor Scholar grade, was at $327.00MXN with "free" delivery... so I went with that one... it actually had more functions than the other one.
Today, I told my papa that I finally could buy me a much wanted multimeter, and he casually said:
"Oh! I have one!
Forgot until now that you mentioned it. I was going to tell you two weeks ago but forgot.
Here."
...
...
...
Sigh... the device he's referring to is this one:
Analog...
I wouldn't trust readings done with an Analog one.
But anyway, my rant here is the following...
Since the beginning of this year, I've been exclusively hunting for CRT monitors. I haven't found ANY AT ALL... UNTIL YESTERDAY WHEN I PAID AND SPENT ALL I HAD LEFT IN A DIGITAL MULTIMETER!
Literally, yesterday went to a store to pay for my Amazon product, my multimeter that is, and decided to go to the flea market to see if I could find a TRUPER one.
Didn't found a multimeter, but did found CRT MONITORS NEARLY EVERYWHERE
God damnit! Been hunting for them ENTIRE YEARS.
I don't have high hopes in CRT monitors nowadays, specially with my luck... speaking about finding one in "perfect" conditions... so even if I can get my hands in one, it'll probably have picture defects... or at the very least, will probably need a complete recap.
I just can't believe my luck, that when I have the money, no matter how much I hold it, I'll never find a CRT monitor. And as soon as I don't have money, bam, they appear in the wild.
This isn't the first time this exact same scenario has happened. Dinoh once replied to me: "lol same" one time I ranted about this same thing happening probably last year.
But anyway, now I have two multimeters....I hope I'll be able to diagnose my Bitch TV and fix it.
That'll make me a little bit happy.
*sigh*
