The only thing I can safely say it is, is easily breakable...1024MAK wrote:...I did not think that it was easily removable/replaceable.
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Dead easy to remove / replace - the plastic top of the soldered part just lifts up and out springs the red part (normally about 5 feet across the room)....
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Pretty much the same amount of fun - although finding the spring afterwards is a real pain!!
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...or direct into Rich's eye!RWAP wrote:Dead easy to remove / replace - the plastic top of the soldered part just lifts up and out springs the red part (normally about 5 feet across the room)....
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And very easy to prevent the err, "gun" from firing - just use your finger to stop it!
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Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
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I was in the process of recreating the circuit diagram for issue 5 to a very high quality one, only to lose all my work after a catastrophic drive failure and no back-up. I do intend to start again but cannot find where I originally got the image files from. There were about 8 that made up both Issue 5 and 6 and I used these as a template to which I overlayed vector equivalents. Anyone know where I can get them?
I checked Google and Dilwyn's site, the quality is too poor to identify component values.
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Lee,
There is a QL Service Manual on World of Sinclair that has a bit better scan quality (I think) than the one on Dilwyn's site (It's also OCR-ed and thus searchable)
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... Manual.pdf
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There is a QL Service Manual on World of Sinclair that has a bit better scan quality (I think) than the one on Dilwyn's site (It's also OCR-ed and thus searchable)
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... Manual.pdf
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Standby alert
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year
QL, Falcon, Atari 520STFM, Atari 1040STE, more PC's than I care to count and an assortment of 8 bit micros (Sinclair and Acorn)(nearly forgot the Psion's)
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year
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Mark, I've got a service manual right here. Printed, that is. Unfortunately, no scanner, but I doubt it'd be of much use as the schematic pages are bigger than A3.
Anyway, I know what the Reset button connects to and I've got a momentary switch hooked, I just don't like the idea of a dangling switch hanging out of the hole. And yes, I am looking for originality. However, I had another look this morning and it seems I was probably looking at something else, since the button is a plain DPDT with normal pin pitch so it can be found. I've already checked DigiKey's bible and I've spotted one or two possible replacements. Won't have the black cap but... what can you do.
However, if I manage to fix that QL (it's the one with the RAM error), it might be an idea to get it converted to desktop. Properly. And use one of those nifty keyboard interfaces too. That's not a bad idea... so the broken reset button can be removed and headers attached to get a reset button in front.
Anyway, I know what the Reset button connects to and I've got a momentary switch hooked, I just don't like the idea of a dangling switch hanging out of the hole. And yes, I am looking for originality. However, I had another look this morning and it seems I was probably looking at something else, since the button is a plain DPDT with normal pin pitch so it can be found. I've already checked DigiKey's bible and I've spotted one or two possible replacements. Won't have the black cap but... what can you do.
However, if I manage to fix that QL (it's the one with the RAM error), it might be an idea to get it converted to desktop. Properly. And use one of those nifty keyboard interfaces too. That's not a bad idea... so the broken reset button can be removed and headers attached to get a reset button in front.