05 Oct 2012, 14:45
During the morning, I realized that I've been a member here since five months, and it's incredible to see that during just five months, I have managed to increase my collection so much, with some events that happened in the meantime, such as the sudden death of my Elektronika 1 and the arrival of my first Pulsar. So, I thought that while I'm waiting for my next arrival, the P3, I should take a picture of the watches I've got so far, and I took photos of each watch, including the casebacks and lit-up displays (I haven't taken a pic of the Computron's caseback because the picture never turned out properly). However, while I was taking the picture of the Elektronika, I thought that it was too strange that the watch died suddenly, during the battery replacement. So, I decided to open the watch, to check out, as a newbie in electronics, what could've happened.
I've opened the watch and I took the module out from the case, and there was a sort of post-apocalyptic scene: the module was covered in dust and moisture, and the button contacts -along with the battery ones- were nearly fully covered by oxyde.
Counting only on my limited (well, extremely low) electronics skills, I took the plastic carrier apart from the module, and with an eraser and a needle, I began to clean the contacts and scratch off all the oxyde on the contacts, until they began to shine again, then, I put everything back into the case. I took a pair of 357 and I put them into the watch, thinking that my attempt at bringing it back to life wouldn't be successful, instead... It works!
Now the watch doesn't have flickering problems nor contact issues anymore, and it seems to work even better than before. So, the reason that led to the sudden "coma" of the watch was probably a contact issue, I'm testing the watch since this morning, and it's working flawlessly at the moment. Welcome back Elektronika! Now I just have to find a non-working version with a case in good conditions, so I can give a better case to the watch.
To view the pictures at their full size, just click on the thumbnails, hope you like them!
Besides the photos of the collection, I took some additional pics of the King of my collection, as a "divertissement". I've managed to fix the twisted link of the bracelet, and now it looks perfect.
I've opened the watch and I took the module out from the case, and there was a sort of post-apocalyptic scene: the module was covered in dust and moisture, and the button contacts -along with the battery ones- were nearly fully covered by oxyde.
Counting only on my limited (well, extremely low) electronics skills, I took the plastic carrier apart from the module, and with an eraser and a needle, I began to clean the contacts and scratch off all the oxyde on the contacts, until they began to shine again, then, I put everything back into the case. I took a pair of 357 and I put them into the watch, thinking that my attempt at bringing it back to life wouldn't be successful, instead... It works!
Now the watch doesn't have flickering problems nor contact issues anymore, and it seems to work even better than before. So, the reason that led to the sudden "coma" of the watch was probably a contact issue, I'm testing the watch since this morning, and it's working flawlessly at the moment. Welcome back Elektronika! Now I just have to find a non-working version with a case in good conditions, so I can give a better case to the watch.
To view the pictures at their full size, just click on the thumbnails, hope you like them!
Besides the photos of the collection, I took some additional pics of the King of my collection, as a "divertissement". I've managed to fix the twisted link of the bracelet, and now it looks perfect.
