Re: Maybe I'm not as dumb as I thought . . .

A cure I use for fried edge connectors is to jump solder a new edge
connector butted up to the old one. Cut up a 22 pin card edge extender
(test card) in 1 inch (2.5cm) wide strips and solder it to the board with 1
in. pieces of wire so you have about 1/2 inch available to plug into the
edge connector socket. Replace that at the same time. Looks a little ugly,
but now it works 100% and will last a good long time in home environments
(not on 24 hours/day).

Should I put up a picture on my web site of the results on a Pac board?

John :-#)#

At 02:18 PM 10/17/00, Kurt Mahan wrote:
>Yep!
>
>R29 is usually the indication that you've got a connector problem. Also
>a "popular" fix is just to solder some wires onto the board and splice
>around the connector.. I'm not advocating it (quite the opposite) but
>I've worked on more machines than I care to think about that have had
>that little tweak..
>
>We just had a battlezone with that problem. A little tender loving care
>in cleaning/bending/rebuilding of the connector by Jeff got it working
>great.. (and just had to replace R29..)
>
>Kurt
>
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jon Raiford wrote:
> >
> > > If everything was hooked up correctly and R29 fried, you have a contact
> > > problem on the edge connector. This is a very common problem. I think
> > > half of my AR2's have had R29 blown :)
> >
> > Thanks. I'm assuming I'm looking for a contact that isn't making contact,
> > as opposed to a short ?
> >
> > R29 connects +5 to +sense, parallel with a diode and a cap. I'm supposing
> > if +5 doesn't make contact, but sense does, all the current comes through
> > the sense pin and R29, frying it ?
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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