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My XLT was working more and more erratic over time.
That showed up as it going into overload spontaneously and giving signals all over the place.
This occured no matter where I was, which coil I had connected or not. Turning down preamp gain to 1 did not help either.
I could still sort of detect in pinpoint mode with a lot of threshold "noise".
So I decided to clean all the power contacts, those in the battery holder and the socketed PLCC legs as I have read about that here. They were quite oxidised.
In a bout of too much sun the next day, I was muddled in mind, but could not wait to put the XLT together again.
So later that evening I did and in spite of my marking of the grey 16 pole connector that goes to the control panel,
I bloody ****ing connected it the wrong way around. Switch on did not work. Realised mistake and reversed the plug. Nada.
Heck, what could possibly have been damaged by my stupidness?
Is there any way to find out where the damage is and is it fixable?
Last note: there was no magic smoke, nothing, just dead. There are 10.1 volts on the main power rail on the PCB.
I feel terrible and also cannot seem to find a good schematic. Thanks for any input.
That showed up as it going into overload spontaneously and giving signals all over the place.
This occured no matter where I was, which coil I had connected or not. Turning down preamp gain to 1 did not help either.
I could still sort of detect in pinpoint mode with a lot of threshold "noise".
So I decided to clean all the power contacts, those in the battery holder and the socketed PLCC legs as I have read about that here. They were quite oxidised.
In a bout of too much sun the next day, I was muddled in mind, but could not wait to put the XLT together again.
So later that evening I did and in spite of my marking of the grey 16 pole connector that goes to the control panel,
I bloody ****ing connected it the wrong way around. Switch on did not work. Realised mistake and reversed the plug. Nada.
Heck, what could possibly have been damaged by my stupidness?
Is there any way to find out where the damage is and is it fixable?
Last note: there was no magic smoke, nothing, just dead. There are 10.1 volts on the main power rail on the PCB.
I feel terrible and also cannot seem to find a good schematic. Thanks for any input.
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