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| | | (...) Well, I'm mostly quiet because I'm just coming back from a set of robot games in Northern Indiana, where I was only able to enter two robots... and one of them didn't run at all due to a dead (& I mean DEAD) RCX. So anybody want to help out (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here —John Barnes
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| | | | | (...) Brian, the battery clips are soldered onto the RCX's main board. A good solid jolt might have managed to unsolder one of them, or crack the corner of the board. JB (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | (...) Bob Fay wrote a tutorial about that: (URL) probably the springs blades that make connection from batteries to RCX board are bent (See photo 4 of Bob tutorial). Though these blades are not normally soldered to the board (despite John's post (...) (19 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here —Brian Davis
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| | | | | (...) That was exactly it - the rear spring terminal, although it appeared fine, was evidently just barely bent too high by the impact. I removed the circuitboard, pushed both battery clips down slightly, and rebuilt the unit. It works! The power (...) (19 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here —John Barnes
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| | | | (...) Oops! You're right Philo ;) Sorry. Going in and soldering them was one of my fixes for intermittent battery problems now I come to remember. Which then just leads you to the next problem which is when they unsolder again ....... JB (19 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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