Back In Business

For someone who dislikes Karaoke as much as I do, I sure spend a lot of time repairing Karaoke equipment.

I finished repairing 3 Karaoke microphones and a DVD/Karaoke player last night at 3:30am.


As a side note - If you do any amount of delicate soldering, it would benefit you to get a good solder station and not try to use the crappy chinese stick soldering irons. Crappy tips, crappy temp control, crappy overall.

As another side note - try not to buy any electronics with a lot of knobs and switches. The knobs are potentiometers, and tend to go bad here because of the humidity and dust. Switches corrode and stop working. And especially - STAY AWAY FROM CHINESE ELECTRONICS (at least those not built for well-known companies who don't scrimp and use cheap parts). Carp, carp, carp!

PROMAC, MEGAMAXX, ACE, PENSONIC, and FUKUDA are a few brands to avoid.

Also note: at the Pure Gold, you can buy replacement remotes for most of the popular brands for under p100 - most likely p50. Don't buy from the street vendors that walk around the neighborhoods - they will charge from p100-150 or more for the same remotes.

Home Again

And as soon as my 16 bazillion balikbayan boxes show up, I will set up the lab and start producing again!

UPDATE: They arrived, with minimal damage. I lost a small glass statue of a dolphin (packing error on my part) and two of my buddhas were chipped (again, packing error). But everything else came out just fine!

UPDATE II: The Mad Scientist lab is up and running and I am repairing stuffs that need it - being gone for 10 months took a toll on the electronics around here! Soon, I should be able to start building new products again!

Moving Back To The Philippines

The mad scientist lab is getting boxed up, in preparation for shipping the works to the Philippines. Honey, I'm coming home! :D

Posting will be (more) sporadic (than usual).

New Product: Bluetooth CB Microphone