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[bah]

I just received my first Lynx from an Ebay person that claimed "it works intermittently". Well that was crap because this thing has multiple problems but for $10 I guess you get what you pay for.

Anyway, I tried jumping negative to the earphone ground and have a picture and sound but no power LED or button controls. I thought maybe the buttons needed cleaning but instead found that the last person had yanked the button ribbon out of the socket so many times that the silver traces were gone off of the ribbon tip. I cut the ribbon back so new silver is at the ribbon tip and I now have a power LED and the buttons are functioning except the power on. I still need to jump the earphone jack.

My question is, has anyone ever de-soldered the Q12 mos transistor and replaced it with a simple slide switch? I am not worried about originality, but I do not want to cause other problems.

Thanks for looking

[zylon]

bah, on Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:59 PM, said:

I just received my first Lynx from an Ebay person that claimed "it works intermittently". Well that was crap because this thing has multiple problems but for $10 I guess you get what you pay for.

Anyway, I tried jumping negative to the earphone ground and have a picture and sound but no power LED or button controls. I thought maybe the buttons needed cleaning but instead found that the last person had yanked the button ribbon out of the socket so many times that the silver traces were gone off of the ribbon tip. I cut the ribbon back so new silver is at the ribbon tip and I now have a power LED and the buttons are functioning except the power on. I still need to jump the earphone jack.

My question is, has anyone ever de-soldered the Q12 mos transistor and replaced it with a simple slide switch? I am not worried about originality, but I do not want to cause other problems.

Thanks for looking

I got one that powers up to blank screen. The parts from that might be helpful. It's a Lynx 2.