Advice Please ... Possibly CGA ... Possibly Component Re-Solder

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harlansmart

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#3381786 8-Jun-2025 17:22

See above, they (ESCORT NZL) received the unit via REPCO their re-seller.

They i.e. REPCO NZL and ESCORT NZL are all seemingly useless, so no longer in the Good Books.

Waiting on MadEngineer to log on, going to send it to him, and reward him for his soldering skills very amply.

mentalinc:

So why can't you get it repaired via head office if they agree with your view? or get their report to be sent to Repco (or better yet get head office to tell repco to replace/repair the faulty unit)?

MadEngineer

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#3381864 8-Jun-2025 21:57

Sorry the late reply, have replied

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

harlansmart

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#3381878 8-Jun-2025 23:14

No way Sir,

Not at all late & duly we are engaged w/you the MadEngineer

Unparalleled levels of assistance from quite a few of you (people you are all awesome)

Thanks heaps all of you helpful GZ'rs the assistance makes us blush

Awesome forum, incredible team, thanks M

Chur

MadEngineer:

Sorry the late reply, have replied

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#3383355 12-Jun-2025 19:36

In case anyone's hanging out for an update, hopefully I'll have time in the weekend to have a look at this. In the mean time, here's today's not-fix in something completely unrelated:

Blown MOV with further damage.

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RunningMan

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#3383359 12-Jun-2025 19:47

You can see where the smoke has leaked out. Just get some new smoke, refill it then patch the hole ;-)

loceff13

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#3383369 12-Jun-2025 20:00

They generally avoid this repair because it's prone to failure again in the future with a missing pad(especially one of the closest pads) but the customer always expects a 100% fix. Depends on switch design it might be able to be epoxied in place after a repair.

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elpenguino

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#3383615 13-Jun-2025 12:04

loceff13:

They generally avoid this repair because it's prone to failure again in the future with a missing pad(especially one of the closest pads) but the customer always expects a 100% fix. Depends on switch design it might be able to be epoxied in place after a repair.

It's inherently a weak design because the button force is applied inline to the pads on the board instead of at 90 degrees. I can't see any strain relief on the mechanical system either so the electrical system takes all the load.

Probably ok in some cases such as well applied solder and users who use a light touch but once you get an imperfection in the assembly all bets are off and failure comes to visit.

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#3384872 16-Jun-2025 20:44

Do you want to post the power supply for me to test it?

One of the pads was ripped off unfortunately but I was able to clean back a bit of the trace and get some solder on it.

The little micro switches are horrible. They have a slight squishiness to them as you press before going click. This I suspect may result in one pushing it harder to make it work. Especially if you’re using the combo press of holding one down to then press the other for “PREF”

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harlansmart

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#3424900 14-Oct-2025 16:33

So,

MadEngineer wasn't able to fix the issue & we thank him very much for the extended effort

Pretty sure we said that we'd never ever give REPCO one more red cent, we meant it too

Replaced the radar with one, but NOT from REPCO, from HyperDrive this time

They get our $1900 this time and will get our $1900 etc next time too

Will never provide REPCO any custom ever again

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