DamNie
08-21-2003, 06:37 AM
You're all going to gasp in horror when you hear this (well, I'm not sure), but I think due to my impatient nature, I've damaged the battery circuit on my Revo.
Blah blah, usual 85% battery problems. Did the full drain thing, then hard reset, charge for 6 hours off the mains switched off, then tried it. Switches off again after 85% or so charge (esp. in Cascade with the sound on). Being too short on time for the whole 20/40/60/80% discharge thing (and not then knowing about the freezer trick), I bought correctly rated AAA NiMH batteries and got an electrical engineer friend to solder the wires onto the new batteries.
It worked for a few hours, then disaster.
Now it only *sometimes* comes on, and when it does, it usually switches off if moved, and the DC power plug only works if you apply pressure downward on the plug! This has led me to believe that either the little circuit board has become damaged, his soldering was crap, both, or the Revo was doomed from the moment I bought it.
Basically, I've had enough. They're great machines in their own right, but unless someone here can offer to help me with this problem, I'm just going to sell it as is (and probably lose a few hundred bucks in the process). If I had £100-odd to burn, I'd send it to POS, but considering it onlly cost me the equivelant of £60 in the first place, I don't think it's worth the hassle.
I don't know what anyone can suggest, other than they can offer to help properly diagnose and/or fix the problem. Out of sheer frustration, there is a 'for sale' post in comp.sys.psion.misc - but there may be hope if someone can offer help before I go to the stationary shop and spend 5 bucks on a diary instead.
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Blah blah, usual 85% battery problems. Did the full drain thing, then hard reset, charge for 6 hours off the mains switched off, then tried it. Switches off again after 85% or so charge (esp. in Cascade with the sound on). Being too short on time for the whole 20/40/60/80% discharge thing (and not then knowing about the freezer trick), I bought correctly rated AAA NiMH batteries and got an electrical engineer friend to solder the wires onto the new batteries.
It worked for a few hours, then disaster.
Now it only *sometimes* comes on, and when it does, it usually switches off if moved, and the DC power plug only works if you apply pressure downward on the plug! This has led me to believe that either the little circuit board has become damaged, his soldering was crap, both, or the Revo was doomed from the moment I bought it.
Basically, I've had enough. They're great machines in their own right, but unless someone here can offer to help me with this problem, I'm just going to sell it as is (and probably lose a few hundred bucks in the process). If I had £100-odd to burn, I'd send it to POS, but considering it onlly cost me the equivelant of £60 in the first place, I don't think it's worth the hassle.
I don't know what anyone can suggest, other than they can offer to help properly diagnose and/or fix the problem. Out of sheer frustration, there is a 'for sale' post in comp.sys.psion.misc - but there may be hope if someone can offer help before I go to the stationary shop and spend 5 bucks on a diary instead.
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