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Hi there, there was an accident (induced by very little siblings, grrr) at my kids club today, and at least 2 of my Saitek-II clocks were broken. I suspect that some of the insides have been jarred loose from the impact of the fall, as opposed to actual broken components. I say this based on the observation that these clocks sometime seem to work for a few seconds, but as soon as the clock is physically turned, the display dies or resets, etc.
Would there be anyone out there who could help me fix these? Ideally, it would be on a hobby basis, or at least at reduced rates. I already spent the rest of this season's budget on extra trophies, so I'm a bit stuck. Over the next couple of months, I will travel along the Toronto to Quebec City corridor, so I would consider dropping them off anywhere within it.
their website has no documentation, but when I figured out how to find the case screws --- pry off all four rubbery pads, you'll see two screws you can reach with a normal screwdriver, and there are two that need a specially long and thin screwdriver --- and tried to unscrew them, the grooves in the screw heads sheared off. Really; the screws are weaker than the plastic case they are holding together... that or two of the screws are glued in place.
With no normal way to get the screws out I just pried the case apart, cracking it in places.
Inside, I found that the wires on the on/off toggles (attached to the buttons the players hit) are so minimally short that my big adult fingers couldn't get them repositioned.
Maybe one of the 12-year-olds who assembled it can help you.
(I'm thinking about getting one of those tank-like Chronos clocks, though they're kind of expensive)
Hi Aris;
If you have not started to dismantle the clock yet, Just look at the batteries.
They may have come loose. If the clock works for a time then you turn it seems like the power is not getting to clock.
Good luck! The ten or so Chronos clocks at Montreal's Cafe Pi have been taking a beating day after day for at least five years with no damage (except maybe chipped paint).
Hi again, for anyone who might be interested, it looks like we have recovered these clocks! We were able to open them up, and out of all of the broken little parts that had been bouncing around on the inside, none was critical, i.e. just little end plastic pieces. Someone who is way better at this than me, then "soldered" any big component pieces that were coming loose, to increase life expectancy. This brought one of the clocks back to life, but the other one was more curious. It seems that when it was dropped, this displaced the batteries enough, so that one of them eventually shorted. I do not fully understand that finding, but this electronics person assured me that is was possible to short a battery by letting it sit in an unexpected position for at least some time. The low battery indicator on the clock was never triggered, but just one of the batteries was shorted. The guy who helped me said he had seen this before with toys that did not hold the batteries snugly enough in place, so they could slip loose a bit, then short.
Anyway, I had no idea this was possible as a cause, so just thought I would share it.
A common type of short circuit occurs when the positive and negative terminals of a battery are connected with a low-resistance conductor, like a wire. With low resistance in the connection, a high current exists, causing the cell to deliver a large amount of energy in a short time.
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