ELECTRONICS CORNER

In October 1996, I took a course in Electronics servicing - Radio and TV. The course was 4 years long and candidates who pass would get a city & Guilds certificate and should be able to work as an electronic repair technician especially in the TV and Radio department. I made the course without the problems passing with Distinction every exam at the end of the scholastic year (June). The exeption was in Digital Electronics last year were I got a Merit instead of Distinction. Anyway, I had really fun and the course was very interesting.

I cannot forget to say a big thank you to my friends who helped me a lot during this course. I am refering to one of my best friends I ever had - Marco Abela who helped each other out in many circumstances. I used to go with him with his car everywhere, especially to lecture places and exams. He was also very helpful in lending me his notes of practical work at the end of the last year when some nice guy stolen my brief-case with my notes from the car. Marco too passed the course brilliantly (distinction in all exams) and he is serving and repairing electronic items as a hobby/part time. Thanks alot Marc, and keep it up.

Then I have to say also a big thanks to my neighbour friend Raymond Micallef - who is a very professional and excellent electronic technician. He encouraged me to take the course, and let me to stay beside him to learn what he is doing. It was not the first time that I would get stuck during fixing an item and I would seek help from him. Well I helped him too in obtaining IC datasheets from the Internet or solve him computer realted problems. Well thanks very much Ray!!!

After the course I started to fix items for my friends, and members of the family, and after about 1 year experience I started to fix for foreign people, and now also for an electronics shop (Schneider agent, Mosta). From the very start, I began to make a document for every item I had to repair. The document is referred to as job repair document and it consistsof:

1. Repair Job Doc Contents
2. Basic info of the item,
3. Fault symptoms it had,
4. All actions I did to repair it
5. Repair fouls I did, advices and precautions
6. Parts replaced and prices
7. Client info
8. Other technical comments and measurments.

I believe that such information would be useful to some people out there especially beginners and students who want to be / studying for an electronic technician. So I am palcing the documents here for everyone interested to read. The documents were originally Word Document and now they are converted to html for the internet, thus you may expect some losses in formatting and display. Some info like Client details, prices and shops are removed for ethical obvious reasons.

If you find such documents useful, and want to send me an email to rebate, ask questions or discuss such matter, please go ahead. I will be happy to hear from you, perhaps you have a similar fault and want a little advice (if I can help!)

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