[BC] Providing schematics

[Harold Hallikainen]

Wayne, can you give a citation for that Act? I can't find it at
http://leginfo.public.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=bpc&codebody=&hits=All
or Google.

THANKS!

Harold


> Well, I live in Los Angeles, and they ain't supplying it!
>
> -D
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:47:08 PM EDT
> From: "Wayne Woollard" <woollard at inreach.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Providing schematics
>
> If you are in the state of California, the law requires it be supplied
> upon
> request. A portion of the Fair Repairman Act.  According to the law you
> have
> the right to repair something you bought and paid for.
>
> Wayne Woollard
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:52 AM
> Subject: [BC] Providing schematics
>
>
> I have been using Broadcast Tools products for a long time and find them
> well
> made problem solvers. As part of the Greenstone closing I wound up with a
> couple of their devices; specifically a SS 4.1 relay switcher and an AHR-1
> headphone station. I've been looking to obtain an audio control preamp for
> some time (for now I feed all audio through my Sony Trinitron CRT TV set-a
> compormise at best), but being unemployed makes purchasing one-even used-
> impossible.  So, I began looking at these two pieces as a way to make a
> decent
> preamp. Turns out that the AHR-1 uses three dual opamps and has its own
> onboard three terminal regulators. Since I also have a 24 volt AC wall
> wart,
> I
> thought about running a pair or diodes as half wave rectifiers and two
> caps
> to
> make =/- 18 volts. I'd pick the audio off just after the volume control
> and
> that way have the benefit of a headphone amp to boot. The unit has
> balanced
> inputs, which would work great with the SS4.1 as a source selector. The
> opamp
> chips in the unit are commercial grade, but I obtained some samples of
> National Semiconductor's new esoteric (and expensive!) super grade hifi
> dual
> op amps. Seems like a good way to make an audiophile grade premap for
> practically no $$!
>
> Broadcast Tools doesn't provide a schematic of the unit, just a
> "functional
> diagram" which basically shows hook up instructions, so I emailed them to
> get
> one. They refused to provide one to me! In fact, apparently they don't
> provide
> ANY schematics of ANY products to ANYONE!
>
> I have a REAL problem with this! Am I justified? Shouldn't broadcast
> equipment
> manufacturers provide schematics of their equipment so station engineers
> can
> repair the equipment THEY own? I know that most DO provide schematics. Is
> Broadcast Tools in the wrong here or am I simply being too anal over this?
>
> Comments?
>
> -D
>
>
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