[TechAssist] Re: Sencore

Over the past 40 years I have bought a lot of Sencore equipment and been
very pleased with it. However I too bought a few I wish I could forget.
VC93  $3002.60 in July 1991: used it to analyze one VCR repair job. Took
several hours to do all the hookups to prove what was bad. Got $60 labor for
the job. Determined that any job I needed it for would cost more than the
customer was willing to pay. Never used it again on a VCR but I do use the
audio signal on stereos occasionally.

Then there was the CB debacle. Bought the analyzers and a B&K scope that was
capable of seeing the 27mhz (back in '77 most TV scopes didn't go that high
and Sencore didn't make one) plus a subscription to Sams CB manuals. Five
years later I had spent $5000 on CB stuff and done less than $1000 in repair
work. The guys who didn't have the necessary FCC 2nd Phone license, and were
willing to do the illegal work, got all the jobs. I sold the Sams and the
equipment to a truck driver from Mississippi who was tired of driving and
wanted to set up a CB shop at his local truck stop. Got less than $500 for
it and felt lucky to get that.

Most useful have been:  VA62, SC61, LC77.\ and the Cricket.



Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Vanaman" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:33 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Sencore


> Any test equipment needs to be purchased well before it is useless.
> Sencores VCR analyzer, for example, may have been a gold mine in the early
> to mid '80s, but by '90 it would have been questionable.
>
> I bought a TVA92/VG91 in '94 and it has more than paid for itself in time
> saved, but if I were looking for one today I wouldn't pay more than a
couple
> of hundred dollars.  The way technology is changing they don't have much
> life left.
>
> Wayne Vanaman
> Omega Electronics
> 6904 W Fairfield Dr
> Pensacola, Fl.  32506-3310
>
> Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com
>
> 850-456-5995 voice
> 850-458-6369 fax
>
>


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