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Sunday, 14 April 2013

Weekend Project: Miscellaneous

Headphone + Joystick repair.

Both of the equipment is left by former roommate.

Some buttons on panel have no reaction unless you press them firmly. It seems Conductive Rubber under the buttons are dirty.

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Teardown the device.

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Water wash the buttons/rubber and clean the PCB by using eraser.

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Finally, reassemble the joystick and do a test.

 

=================HeadPhone=============

Logitech headphone.

The volume controller has problem. Even very tiny touch on the controller will mute the right hand side speaker.

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Teardown.

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At first, I thought just the right-pass of variable resistor is open circuit. Soldering three new ‘Bridge’ will cross the problem.

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The Bridge (from another headphone dead body~)

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Done. Bridges connected the end-points of tuner

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Unfortunately, annoying buzz and mute problem still exists.

I realized it was not a open circuit, but a short circuit. There is an unexpected connection between Right and Ground cable.

Plan B:

Direct connection, no tuner.

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Tested, all green.

Mission accomplished.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

CANNON PG-510 Printer Cartridge Refill

Printer: Cannon MP280
Color ink printer & scanner

Third party ink (black)


20ml

Could refill 2.6 times for my printer cartridge
So, it is easy to calculate the capacity of cartridge:
20 / 2.6 = 7.7 ml

I also brought a larger ink tank from China:
150 ml
150 / 7.7 = 19.5 times
WOW!

There is an air vent on the cartrige but it is too narrow for the injecter. Expand/Ream it.

And tear off the sticker. You will see the air gateway

Prepare for injection

7ml

Done.
Paste a new sticker.