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

Yes, I know what you are speaking of, however then you have doubled the
number of connectors that can/will fail. This was done for our commercial
grade repairs over the years, and doesn't take that much longer to do than
soldering on an solder tail edge connector, plus the soldered wire acts as
a bit of a heat sink to cool the edge connector-or am I reaching here?

John :-#)#

At 02:59 PM 10/17/00, Gregg Woodcock wrote:
>You can do a "wireless" version of this by buying a solder-tail connector
>and a fingerboard. Carefully solder the female connector onto the original
>board edge (this is the trickiest part). Then solder the fingerboard
>between the soldertails. Then connect the harness to the new edge
>connector. MUCH quick/easier than messing with wires, etc.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com>
>To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>; <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:37 AM
>Subject: Re: VECTOR: 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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