Fixing up another Synchronar... What was I thinking?

[J Thomas]

[charger105]

Those MkIII/IV scrapers are certainly riehl hard to work on. Out of 5 or 6 lots I've only got 2 going. I try to make sure there's an encapsulated IC amongst them, which invariably do work. He doesn't seem to have these any more though.

Get yourself an unopened MkI/II. I'm sure you'd get one of these fired up in no time.

Rgds.

[rewolf]

Use the original displays and cases to build "Syncronar clones" with a newly designed module...

[J Thomas]

[Sully008]

The trick with Barry's auctions is to wait for one with boards that have alot of parts still attached to them. That one listed looks like there might be 3 with everything but a solar cell. Most of those boards look like the resistors were pulled out of them. I lucked out and won an auction that looks like it has 5 boards with everything but a solar cell. Sometimes ones that are still in the red bottom only need a new S/C and batteries.

In one batch of MkI/II boards I bought I had one with a display that was bent at a 45 degree angle, green fuzzy traces, and missing a QC. But when I put power to it, segments lit up. Added a QC and voila! It was working! Carefully bent the display back to perpendicular added an SC and put it in a case. I even figured out how to fit the bloody V80s in flush. Mess around with these long enough and you're bound to get it right.

[clockace]

well there you go mike! i have afew i have been messing with off and on for a year now and they are still not quite right. i think some of these ARE beyond repair. jeff, since we are only a few miles apart, maybe we should put our heads together sometime? peter

[rewolf]

Use the original displays and cases to build "Syncronar clones" with a newly designed module...

.... I'm afraid it would never pay for itself as a project. .....

Certainly not if you have to pay for it. But as a hobby project it'd be nice.

[J Thomas]

[J Thomas]

[J Thomas]