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A quick note: Parts of the wording in this post were drafted with the help of AI. … (clearly recognizable in the style: A repair story from the world of smart Swedish furniture. The symptom: click-click-click… As so often happens, it started with an annoying noise. My TRADFRI socket from the big Swedish furniture store…
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“Freshly mopped floors without having to vacuum beforehand: The FC 7 Cordless hard floor cleaner removes all types of dry and damp everyday dirt in one step.” (Original text kaercher.com) You get this product promise on the manufacturer’s website if you are interested in the FC7 electric hard floor cleaner. However, when this promise is…
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In this post, I’m going to take a look at the restoration – or rather repair – of a handheld game that I recently received for review. It has the name “Tricky Traps”. This means something like “tricky or tricky traps” The game “Tricky Traps” by Tomy is a mechanical game of skill that was…
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In an old post from 2019 I reported about oscilloscopes from the manufacturer Keysight and their problem with a sudden failure. (see link). At that time, it was about oscilloscopes suddenly refusing to work – sometimes with a bang and subsequent smell of “power”. Or simply nothing happened at all after switching on. The reason…
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This time, a defective pair of active speakers found me, which comes from the professional corner of sound generating devices. These devices also occasionally have problems or fail. If you do a little research in the forums on the Internet, the KH-120 boxes are very robust and durable. The only issues I’ve read about are…
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The portable cassette player from the manufacturer SONY with the type designation WM-DD11 is the content of this article. Colloquially known as “Walkman”, I received this part for my collection. Of course with the comment “defective” – so again a little challenge and at the same time the hope that no mechanical, no longer available…
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This time again a quick article on the subject of “Aging and Homematic Smart Home”. It’s about the following device: The Homematic smoke detector HM-SEC-SD, i.e. the older version of the smoke detector from eq3. First of all: This article only shows how I put this device back into operation. Since it is a safety-relevant…
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I have another small contribution to make on the subject of “Aging and Homematic Smart Home”. Many thanks to Fritz for the preparation and analysis. As in the last post “Homematic actuator quick repair”, this time it is again about a device from the Smart Home series. It is the dimmer actuator with the designation…
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Thanks to the USB standard, it is now easy to operate or charge your mobile phones, tablets, Arduinos, Raspberry PIs, toothbrushes, power banks, etc., etc., with one and the same charging adapter or plug-in power supply. The “plug-in power supply” is an AC / DC converter which, ideally, electrically isolates the mains side with the…
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Due to some inquiries regarding the electrical wiring of the Tomy Racing cockpit, I sat down and drew out the wiring. There are apparently many contemporaries who still find toys from the 80s in their basements, attics, etc. and repair them again. With the Tomy Cockpit it happens again and again that the thin wires…
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