{"id":533,"date":"2022-02-21T03:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/?p=533"},"modified":"2022-02-21T03:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:49:58","slug":"free-time-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/2022\/02\/21\/free-time-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-time Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well peoples, when you have &#8216;free time&#8217; one begins to find projects that have been neglected. In this episode, I tackled the TV that has not worked for some time. It had been unplugged for about a year, and when finally plugged back in, it displayed a blink code, but no picture, no backlight, nada.<\/p>\n<p>So, after a long search on the web, I was able to locate how to actually interpret the blink codes. The culprit was either the power-supply or the main logic board. After testing all the voltages on the power-supply, I was able to determine that the main board was to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534 lazyload\" width=\"289\" height=\"385\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3276-scaled.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 85vw, 289px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 289px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 289\/385;\" \/><figcaption>Yep. Only board that can&#8217;t be repaired easily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535 lazyload\" width=\"312\" height=\"416\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3296-scaled.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 85vw, 312px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 312px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 312\/416;\" \/><figcaption>After all re-assembled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, a successful surgery. The TV is working ($40 part), the WII is back in action, and nobody got hurt ( The boards on the edges hold the inverters to power the 22 fluorescent bulbs. )&nbsp; Well, one project crossed off the list, on to the next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until next time, stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>NBW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well peoples, when you have &#8216;free time&#8217; one begins to find projects that have been neglected. In this episode, I tackled the TV that has not worked for some time. It had been unplugged for about a year, and when finally plugged back in, it displayed a blink code, but no picture, no backlight, nada. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/2022\/02\/21\/free-time-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free-time Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuralchaos","category-sleep-deprived-wanderings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8UUpD-8B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubiquitousuniverse.com\/verbage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}