Busted MKII with preemptive stink feature included

[J Thomas]

[bucko170]

He has a HP-01 for sale with quite a tempting BIN price!

[Sully008]

It's probably a good thing you didn't bid on that Sunwatch. It's got a black bottom so it's probably a MkIII, not a MkII. I had a MkIII go bad on me a month after buying it. I sent it back to the person I bought it from to be repaired. I think the MkIIIs are the worst for reliability, especially the ones with the exposed wire bonded chips. At least on the MkI/IIs the individual parts can be replaced. Once that chip on the MkIII goes, you're pretty much out of luck.

[richard_uk]

He has a HP-01 for sale with quite a tempting BIN price!

Just out of curiosity what was the BIN?

[bucko170]

Just out of curiosity what was the BIN?

It was $750.

[J Thomas]

[Sully008]

Yup, got a bag of those as well. All of them are exposed wire bonds. I lucked out and bid on one of Barry's MkI/II parts auctions just minutes after he posted it on Ebay. All parts, I already have 2 cases to fill. Hopefully I'll get some of the boards working.

Oof, on a closer look, I see it is actually a SunWatch, and that means it's a MKIII. I agree, these are miserable. I've a bag of MKIII boards with unusable die attached to them.

Maybe Barry will cough up a dead but decent MKII watch with extra parts on his famous 1day ebay sale spectacular soon

Regards, Jeff

[J Thomas]

[Sully008]

He will sell parts outside of Ebay if you email him. I've bought parts that way from him before. Keep in mind that his Lexan tops are usually for the MkIII/IV, so they need some work to fit the larger MkI/II boards. He'll usually send one red bottom as well. Most of his stuff need alot of work, but I've gotten 4 working from his stash. I don't think he has sliders/magnets though.

That's excellent!
Having the cases on hand are the answer.

I agree, those exposed die on the MKIII / IV are a real heartbreaker when you see the green "fumunda" growing on the die and bond wires.

Hopefully I'll be so lucky before his bucket of busted Synchronars is emptied.

Regards, jeff

[J Thomas]

[retroleds]

those exposed die on the MKIII / IV are a real heartbreaker when you see the green "fumunda" growing on the die and bond wires.
Regards, jeff

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fumunda

So you're saying the stuff is "fum unda" the batteries.

[BENRUS]

those exposed die on the MKIII / IV are a real heartbreaker when you see the green "fumunda" growing on the die and bond wires.
Regards, jeff

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fumunda

So you're saying the stuff is "fum unda" the batteries.

Nice site there Ed
I couldn't help but type SMEGMA in the search after reading about fumunda