Comments for Greg In The Desert

Comment on Resolving The 6X Red Blinking Light Of Death On My Sony TV (with pictures) by vj

vj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:29:30 +0000

If changing thermal fuse doesn’t solve the problem then try changing ‘Power Supply Board G1 Complete’. New one costs around $130. I bought used one in eBay at about $50 and it is working fine now.

Comment on Resolving The 6X Red Blinking Light Of Death On My Sony TV (with pictures) by Walt

Walt — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:51:57 +0000

Thanks Greg in the Desert for the information but it’s a little late. I had the same blinking 6 X light. Googled it and did not come up with a solution, waited for a repairman and paid him $165.00 to come out and reset my whatever in the back of the TV, I couldn’t see what he was doing, his back was as big as the set and as it was so hot he was perspiring profusely, he got it to work for two days, later it started to blink again, I called the repairman and he wanted another service call to come out, I said that he should come for free since he did nothing the first time, he refused so I told him where to go and it wasn’t to church. I fooled with the TV and got the back off, didn’t know what I was looking at. I told my wife that I would ditch it before I paid again. Needless to say and with no help, the TV in now laying on the ground in the back of my tractor shed, face down. I bought a new TV from HH Greg and it was not a Sony, thanks Sony for nothing. I’ll never buy another Sony anything.
Wally

Comment on Resolving The 6X Red Blinking Light Of Death On My Sony TV (with pictures) by Kaamraan Hassan

Kaamraan Hassan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:26:22 +0000

I had this problem, and your article helped immensely. Could not believe, how simple and inexpensive the fix was. All the TV Repair guys I contacted wanted $500 or more !!! Thank You.

Comment on Baja BE500 500 Watt Electric Scooter by Jeff G

Jeff G — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:43:03 +0000

First sentence above should read, “Our batteries fried on the 1st charge!”

Comment on Baja BE500 500 Watt Electric Scooter by Jeff G

Jeff G — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:41:53 +0000

Our batteries fried the charge! I called the company and got no product help, but did get some info.

Fortunately, I was able to swap batteries with the retailer who sold it to me, Liberty Market Place in Pinetop AZ, who I recommend doing business with wholeheartedly!

So, far with the new battery no problem except the charger light never seems to go off. You kind of have to guess if its fully charged and not let it go too long. I read another post somewhere that the charger was a problem.

Also George at Baja scooters, said they wrote the directions wrong.

If I understand correctly:

1) The switch next to the batteries should be “on” to charge. (even though the directs say “off”).
2) The battery comes with a charge, even though the instructions don’t tell you that. This can contribute to the tendency to overcharge and fry the battery.
3) As mentioned above, charge carefully and Do NOT rely on the charger to either;
a) stop charging when the battery is full
b) indicate by changing to a green light when the battery is full.

Sad details on this scooter. Too bad because in theory its a wonderful product. But these flaws make it VERY frustrating and super-tough for me to recommend their brand at all. No wonder Costco isn’t carrying them anymore.

Tag words: Baja electric scooter, bad battery, don’t buy

Comment on Resolving The 6X Red Blinking Light Of Death On My Sony TV (with pictures) by wayne

wayne — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:04:53 +0000

thanks for the advice and direction . I completed the brepair in about an hour and saved alot of $.

To sony ” go @#$% yorself. High end elecrtonics ? Customer SERVICE is a illusion. The phone rep. seemed to bve following some sort of script designed to direct you to a authorized service repair tech. in my area. She seemed surprised by the 6 redlight code and had no idea as to the cause.

We were fortunate to find You!!

Comment on Baja BE500 500 Watt Electric Scooter by Terry Davis

Terry Davis — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:51:15 +0000

After 3 months my scooter batteries fried…melted. I called Baja and received no help, I was told that the battteries were either bad or the charger is bad. They would not replace the batteries so I ended up paying lot of money to purchase 4 new batteries and now the charger will not charge them. I have to buy a new charger now. I purchased the bike at Costco and to my amazement they would not cover it either. The bike was fun to ride unfortunately I have only been able to ride it a couple times and since it has set since the batteries melted and unable to charge the new ones I am not a happy camper here. I wish I would never had purchase the bike.

Comment on Costco La Crosse Technologies Weather Station WS-2810 by Chuck Ballinger

Chuck Ballinger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:45:25 +0000

Just rcv’d my replacement wind sensor and after resyncing it worked. I put silicon tape over their tape to further seal the seam between the top and bottom. Tara at Lacrosse was extremely helpful and knew exactly what the problem was with the sensor having water in it. Now just have to wait until we get rain to see how long it holds up.

Comment on Costco La Crosse Technologies Weather Station WS-2810 by Jim Becker

Jim Becker — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:44:14 +0000

Received the replacement for the 2810 thermo sensor yesterday. Install/re-sync went OK. During the setup, we did get a bit a rain which I was able to record. Although it wasn’t much, it looks like what Lacrosse did was change (retard) the rain report. Comparing it to the Rainwise, this is how they reported:

Rainwise Lacrosse
.01 .00
.02 .02
.03 .02
.04 .04
.05 .04

You get the idea. Will keep an eye on it during a ‘real’ rain event.

Comment on Installing Self-Leveling Concrete In The Master Bathroom by Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:24:42 +0000

It didn’t turn out as great as I hoped and wasn’t level. This was due to my own preparation mistakes. For the master bedroom, I ended up hiring someone.