RE: Squirrely EDP: Fixed

["Andy Ewen" <andy.ewen@btinternet.com>]

Glad you found the problem. I'll be speaking to the test engineers tomorrow
as they are making more units at the end of the week.
Can you remember if the sockets for the EPROMS had round pins or flat pins
where the chip legs locate? I changed from the flat, clamp-like sockets a
couple of years ago due to the chips working loose. The newer round-pin
sockets are much higher quality, (supposedly better retention) and I'd be
really interested in which ones your unit has.
Thanks,
Andy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sottilaro [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
Sent: 04 September 2002 16:52
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Squirrely EDP: Fixed

OK, I finally got sick of the occasional rebooting of my EDP and opened
it up.  I'm glad I did, as it wasn't a eprom that needed reseating.  The
eprom had been put in so that one of the pins wasn't even in it's
socket!  It was bent and touching the contact, but not in it.  YIPE!
How did that get out the door?  I had to be very gentle, but I got it
straightened out and back in and now all seems fine.  So anyway, if your
EDP is acting weird, open it up and take a look.  I also noticed that it
took a lot less force to get the eproms out than other devices I've done
this too.  Probably why a lot of us have to reseat then in the first
place.

Mark Sottilaro