Hello Sir Steve, thank you for allowing me to register in your forum. I'm not new to electronics, I've been repairing since 1980's. But I am not a full time repairer, because I am not fully equipped with top of the line electronic equipments and testers. I came from the poor country in the Pacific [Philippines]. Because of lack resources, most of the time I cannot repair defective units but I have the idea. Many years passed, my interest shifted me to computers. But I repair when there is an opportunity. I have one tester, an old one which to my surprised it was already on the list of rare tester [Leader LCR-740 LCR Bridge] together with the other obsolete testers in the museum. I've been using also Simpson VOM which also very rare to find nowadays. It is only now that I came back to my repairing hobby after 20 years. I have now DMM, Analog VOM, LCR ESR meter, LOPT/FBT ring tester, Capacitance meter. My old dual trace 40Mhz analog oscilloscope is not functioning anymore. I hope this forum can help me regain my lost skills in troubleshooting.
