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Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:59:37 GMT
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> So my conclusion is I screwed up something in the battery power section, but
> *not* (at least obviously) in the motherboard or AC adaptor. Any ideas? Do I
> open it (and if so, how)?
Bob Fay wrote a tutorial about that: http://www.ozbricks.com/bobfay/rcx.htm.
Most 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 ;o), you may solder them to
make sure the contact is good.
Philo
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 | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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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 (18 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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