Re: Star Trek spinner jumps

Try measuring the power supply voltage at the encoder interface board,
is it lower than 4.75 volts?

You say you have two of these doing the same thing. Perhaps it's time
to check the cable to the card cage and the solder joints at the card
cage.

"Christopher X. Candreva" wrote:
>
> OK -- this is maddening. I touched up a loose ground pin (where the two
> ground wires are crimped together out of the control pannel, to the buttons
> and the spinner), that was the only loose wire. Still happens.
>
> The weird thing is, the amount of jump is repeatable. If I put it in
> self-test mode, I can rock the knob back and forth, on what should be a
> single digit change, and have the spinner number change bettween say 35 and
> 94, and back again over and over.
>
> (Until it decides to stop the self-test on it's own and contiue on to the
> sounds. ARGH!!!!!! Is there a time-out on this dang self test, or another
> problem ? The spiner is the only input that acts up durring game play).
>
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Received on Sun Feb 17 13:13:40 2002