WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-=> GREG MAYMAN wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 RJT> There also seems to be a tendency for more lights on cheaper stuff.  I
 RJT> remember the first time I encountered one particular brand of stuff a
 RJT> while back,  doing a service call on an organ and these people had just
 RJT> got themselves a new stereo by mail-order and wanted some help with it.
 RJT> It looked like a christmas tree!

 WC> You mean the ones with the modualar many pin amplifier one for 
 WC> each channel, a lame 1 ampere transformer and 4001 1 ampere 50 
 WC> volt rectifiers in the bridge along with an underated filter cap?

Yeah,  them.  :-)

 WC> Tuner, Amp and power supply 35 bucks max including the PC board and
 WC> third world assembly. Case, 3 - 5 dollars with the rest going to 
 WC> the LEDS they hung all over the place. Then mark it up three 
 WC> hundred percent minimum :-(

At least.  The rental company I was doing work for at that time was paying
around $225 for a complete system,  which had this box sitting in a cabinet
with glass doors,  and they "sold" it for either something over
$800 (if you were paying monthly) or $1100 (if you were paying weekly).

 WC> I've two of them here now, one hooked up to the PC and the other
 WC> the T.V - VCR. Work fine unless you want to crank them up.
 WC> The unit on the VCR has an external DC power jack... rated
 WC> at 12 volts and 750 MA ;-)

Heh.

 WC> Both salvage as I don't pay for this sort of crap.

I had one,  at one time,  which was a repair that the owner had blown up
and never came back to pick up,  don't have it any more though.

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