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- From: d2bohre@dtek.chalmers.se (Henrik Bohre)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Death of remote controls
- Keywords: remote
- Message-ID: <d2bohre.722096316@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:18:36 GMT
- Sender: news@news.chalmers.se
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
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- Someone wondered about the mortality of TV, VCR (and so on) remote controls.
- I don't know if this is what has happened to you, but I have resurrected
- a couple of dead remote controls wich all had died of the following disease:
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- The transmitter usually have som sort of ceramic resonator. I'm not sure, but
- it seems to me that the vibrations from the resonator destroys the solderings
- around it. Anyway, the solution was to solder the resonator back to the pcb.
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- Yours
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- Henrik Bohre
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