Because we are only a few doors from each other, he could talk to me using just his dummy load test equipment.
He would go on and on at the same radio for days and days.. he would tell me he replaced this and that, but still not working properly.. next day, he replaces more and more, and tells me still not running right. Next day again the same , and so on and on.
He wasn't afraid to show me what an amateur he was... I used to shake my head, everytime I heard him on channel 20, saying testing 1 2, testing 1 2, and blowing into the microphone for days on end.
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If that doesn't keep you away from Berrima Communications folks, then read the rest of the forums about Michael John Darby.
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Here's an example of what I'm talking about folks.
When I became friends with the great pretender Michael john Darby from Berrima Communications, he found out about my talents and asked me to be his partner and work for him.
the first thing Mick gave me to fix was a musicians 2 channel audio amp. It was sitting in his too hard basket for months on end.
Mick told me he's been trying to get the 2nd channel to work for months. He said he replaced all the capacitors, then all the transistors and still nothing.
He said its got 2 identical circuit board and components, 1 channel works but the other doesn't. I can't understand whats wrong with it.
I thought to myself how dumb is this guy, he has an amplifier with a good working channel and components that he could get reference voltages etc from, so he can identify the fault of the bad channel and get it working again...
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Anyway, as Mick opened the amp up for me, I made sure Mick didn't screw up soldering the caps and transistors to begin with.
Then I asked him for the circuit diagram so I can make sure the circuit board is getting the proper voltage into it.... sure enough, what was supposed to be 70v input was reading 150v.
It only took me under 30 minutes to realise the power supply for ch 2 was faulty.
Mick had a big smile on his face. He quickly got on the phone to the client and made some story that it took him months to have some free time to be able to look at his amp, and told the client that he opened it up today and found the problem
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