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I made this many years ago.
This ups is over 10years but it's a good one, not so powerful but enough for my business. It came with a 4,5Ah battery that is cost/energy expensive. The standard nowadays is 7,2 or 9Ah, one or more in series, cost/energy cheaper and easier to find.
So i cut the metal chassis and fitted a 7,2 one easily. I filed the cuts so they're not sharp and there's not way the battery poles could touch the chassis.
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Originally posted by joshnz View PostFaulty power switch fixed lol.
No longer cat rated.
Originally posted by stj View Postyou can buy those switches dirt cheap - you did not need to bodge it!
So you end up with a ghetto fix like my scissors in the previous page - shitty, but it works. Still have it on my bench and still use it. The hot glue started to give out a little, so I hit it with my heat gun for about 20-30 seconds. It re-melted and is all good again.
Originally posted by Dumah Brazorf View PostSo i cut the metal chassis and fitted a 7,2 one easily.Last edited by momaka; 08-13-2016, 02:56 PM.
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Last edited by pfrcom; 08-15-2016, 09:13 PM.better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
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Originally posted by Agent24 View PostNice work , too professional to be called 'ghetto' in my opinion, though!Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
"Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me
Excuse me while i do something dangerous
You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.
Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore
Follow the white rabbit.
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+infinityDon't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Perhaps my second entry here will be ghetto enough
I acquired a Gigabyte GA-7BESH-RH dual LGA771 motherboard with a single Xeon 5140
Xeon 5140 are cheap, so I bought a second to see if it fixes issue of only half memory being recognised, but then wondered how I was going to cool it
771 coolers are scarcer than proverbial in Australia, and exchange rate coupled with shipping makes sourcing from USA prohibitive
So I decided to use Socket478 HSF(s) held by ubiquitous cable ties
I haven't got second Xeon 5140 yet - here's original, only 65W TDP and this cools it wellbetter to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
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That old HP laptop with the "repaired" fan also had a damaged touchpad cable. Instead of spending $3.90 on a new cable, I soldered it down. This mess actually works.Last edited by lti; 01-07-2017, 01:12 AM.
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Solder blobs solve(fix) everything!
Unfortunately, the traces on this crappy Vestel PCB are falling down, even if you only look at them.
To buy new light bulbs for the instrument cluster? NEVER! I have enough LED-s from lighters with flashlight.
I was just pissed off, when I found out that half the previous owner was imbecile that torn the traces of the ribbon probably when is was trying to replace the bulbs. The ribbon was damaged beyong repair, but because everything else was functional, I just connected the ribbon, filling the missing pieces with the legs of the resistors and connected the LED-s via 1K resistors. LED-s that work with proper voltages have much longer life than the crappy bulbs made in china and sold everywhere.
BOSS, do we really need all the crews we lost already to fix this poorguy's laptop?
What we cannot fix with solder blobs, we will fix with brackets.
Though, the tip of the screwdriver is very, very strong. I cracked the handle by forcing it, but still not found a way to break the tip.Last edited by televizora; 01-07-2017, 07:05 PM.Useful conversions. I don't "speak" imperial. Please use metric, if you want to address me.
1km=1000m=100000cm, 1inch=2.54cm, 1mile=1609.344meters, 1ft=30.48cm 1gal(US)=3.785liters, 1lb=453grams, 1oz=28.34grams
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Originally posted by lti View PostThat old HP laptop with the "repaired" fan also had a damaged touchpad cable. Instead of spending $3.90 on a new cable, I soldered it down. This mess actually works.
Originally posted by eccerr0r View PostSpeaking of speakers, I have a speaker whose tinsel wires broke. I don't think this speaker is economically repairable (as it's only a 5.25" paper) but has anyone tried replacing/splicing tinsel wire?
Feel adventurous? You can use a ribbon cable too.
Originally posted by televizora View PostTo buy new light bulbs for the instrument cluster? NEVER! I have enough LED-s from lighters with flashlight.
Originally posted by televizora View Post... filling the missing pieces with the legs of the resistors and connected the LED-s via 1K resistors. LED-s that work with proper voltages have much longer life than the crappy bulbs made in china and sold everywhere.
Also good to hear you used 1 KOhm resistors. Like you said, LEDs driven with proper voltage (and current) will last a very long time.
On that note, if anyone ever buys cheap LED light strips on 3M tape and they have 150 Ohm resistors, DON'T use them with 12V, like they say they are rated for. At 12V, those 150 Ohm resistors don't provide enough voltage drop, and so the LEDs end up being over-driven. I have seen enough of those LED strips dead to safely say that they shouldn't be connected to anything more than about 9.5 Volts (or at least for the ones with WHITE LEDs).
Originally posted by televizora View PostWhat we cannot fix with solder blobs, we will fix with brackets.
I'm too cheap for those brackets, so I often use steel/copper wire instead.
Originally posted by televizora View PostThough, the tip of the screwdriver is very, very strong. I cracked the handle by forcing it, but still not found a way to break the tip.
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Here's something a little different - the toaster died over Christmas (the main switch fell to bits) and I had to replace it with a dissimilar one.
The actuator was all wrong (had to snap it off and replace with a screwed-on piece of hairclip) and I had to make a mounting plate to bolt it onto the chassis as the holes were misaligned, and also it would have meant 240v input wires shorted directly to the chassis.
I had to crimp and solder the heater leads to some spade terminals.
It works!"Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
-David VanHorn
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Originally posted by Agent24 View PostNice work , too professional to be called 'ghetto' in my opinion, though!
Did something similar with my Hyundai W241D and some SMD caps where I soldered some polymer through hole caps (big ass 470uF/16V ones) instead...
Doesn't look that great but works very well.
Using SMD caps can be a pain sometimes...
Especially if you don't have good Irons...Last edited by Stefan Payne; 01-15-2017, 08:38 PM.
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Originally posted by eccerr0r View PostSpeaking of speakers, I have a speaker whose tinsel wires broke. I don't think this speaker is economically repairable (as it's only a 5.25" paper) but has anyone tried replacing/splicing tinsel wire?
replacing with solder wick is best way .
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