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I can't believe this has not been mentioned yet:
People who post for Tech Help; listing all the chips, caps, resistors, diodes, and other components they have replaced in a shotgun like effort to solve a switch error, when all they had to do was adjust the switch. They make no effort to diagnose the problem, they just start replacing parts on the MPU, PDB, Sound Board, Etc. Generally, causing new problems in the process.
Quoted from Tom_in_NoVA:I can't believe this has not been mentioned yet:
People who post for Tech Help; listing all the chips, caps, resistors, diodes, and other components they have replaced in a shotgun like effort to solve a switch error, when all they had to do was adjust the switch. They make no effort to diagnose the problem, they just start replacing parts on the MPU, PDB, Sound Board, Etc. Generally, causing new problems in the process.
Quoted from LTG:To further on this one. People who post on KLOV, RGP, and here on Pinside. And their story changes/gets better from the first forum to the next.
They go from what they did and blew up to couldn't be anything they did. And then get a variety of answers not related to fix their blunder.
We are human. We make mistakes. Own up and get the help you need.
LTG : )™
I'm with you on this one Lloyd. I don't know how many times my initial advice has been "please put down the soldering iron".
I remember one post in particular. Not sure if it was a Hoax or not, but the guy had a switch stop working, so he immediately starting replacing items on the MPU. After replacing the diode, resistor, and Uxx chip, he got the error message "check Fuses 114 & 115". So he then replaced fuses, caps, and bridge rectifiers on the PDB. After all that, he posted a "Tech" post. I remember someone asking if he tried replacing the faulty switch and the guy said "no".
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