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Judge Dreads

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So here's the tale, finally got my DH working A1 (many hours of messing and dead boards, DMD etc) played for about 4 hours without fault but when I went to switch it on the other day I get this error message which disables the machine on start up

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Went into switch test, all trough board opto switches seems to check out, tried different opto boards, still no joy so had to delve deeper, I sussed that switch 31 trough board jam opto led + left slings switches etc were down, check manual, all on the same row, from this I deduced white/brown wire, used DMM to isolate the fault to loss of power at left sling switch see pic below.

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Wire is soldered but there is a knot in the wire which is breaking continuity, cut the knot out and re-soldered back onto the tab and voila.

So the question is, who sneaked into my lab, unsoldered the wire, put a big knot in it and soldered it back on to the tab disabling my DH? come on own up !! :mad: :)
 
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