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Title: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: sasuke_kun12 on January 23, 2005, 01:04:06 am

How should i attack it? and whats that black thing in the middle ( i know it's the ground but can i file it down to expose some copper?)

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Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: krick on January 23, 2005, 01:16:04 am

Uh, the "black thing in the middle" is a chip covered in a drop of epoxy.

If you "file it down" you will render the whole circuit board useless.

Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: penjuin on January 23, 2005, 01:18:47 am

The black thing in the middle is not GND, but actually a processor, ie Don't file it down!

Also, if you have presicion soldering skills then you can easily solder two legs of a microswitch (through wires of course) and it should work. Please correct me if I am wrong, im still waiting for my parts to get mailed to me.

Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: penjuin on January 23, 2005, 01:19:19 am

oops, there was a post while i was writing mine! sorry!

Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: sasuke_kun12 on January 23, 2005, 01:34:10 am

um i kinda half filed it i.e i filed abit off the top

Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: quarterback on January 23, 2005, 02:03:02 am

Quote from: lp_maniac on January 23, 2005, 01:34:10 am

um i kinda half filed it i.e i filed abit off the top

Hmmm... do you see scraped epoxy or do you see a scraped IC?

Title: Re: How Should I Wire This?
Post by: sasuke_kun12 on January 23, 2005, 02:19:15 am

i saw epoxy anywaz i screwed the pcb up i plugged it in my pc and it said malfunctioned device