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| DavoDavo:
Hi guys, I'm hoping someone will come up with a fix for my Digital Angle Gauge, it's the same as this one (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Digital-Bevel-Box-Inclinometer-Angle-Gauge-Meter-Protractor-360-Magnets-Base-/270985840582?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item3f1803c7c6#ht_4553wt_1150). It came with batteries (3 x CR2032) installed and worked fine until the batteries died, but I didn't notice the dead batteries due to a house move a year ago and only a few weeks ago saw no display when I went looking for it. Putting three new batteries in just gives me a permanent display of all the characters that the LCD has. I thought maybe that I was glitching it when the batteries were going in so tried many times after suitable in-between long wait times (that usually fixes my digital calipers when I put new batteries in them). I took the back off and tried using a 9V battery instead of the 3 CR2032's in case it was somehow because of the way I was putting the batteries in but despite trying many, many times I still get the same display and no reset. :( Does anyone have any ideas? I'm loath to throw it away unless I really have to. :doh: |
| Davo J:
Hi, I cant help but, I know you probably never bought it off him, but drop Meister on ebay a message. They are all pretty similar and just tell him your problem and don't mention what brand yours is. He has been selling them for a few years now and I have one of his, and if anyone can help you it's him, as he knows what he sells and repairs most things himself as well. http://stores.ebay.com.au/DROStore If your not on ebay I have his email address, but it's down the shed so I will have to get it if needed I had a problem with a Meister DRO recently (5+ years old) and he told me how to fault find and was more than helpful. I highly recommend him for buying any of his products, full service back up even though most rubbish ebay overseas guys and say there is no back up service, this guy stands by his products 100%. Dave PS, Davo, great name by the way, LOL Where are you in Aus, I am in Newcastle NSW |
| AdeV:
--- Quote from: DavoDavo on June 05, 2012, 04:21:02 AM ---Does anyone have any ideas? I'm loath to throw it away unless I really have to. :doh: --- End quote --- Just a WAG - does it need recalibrating? Wondering if maybe there's a reset switch somewhere, possibly recessed & requiring a bent paperclip to operate, which puts it back to zero? |
| DavoDavo:
--- Quote from: Davo J on June 05, 2012, 08:08:20 AM --- Dave PS, Davo, great name by the way, LOL Where are you in Aus, I am in Newcastle NSW --- End quote --- Hi Dave (yep, that is a great name!) :thumbup: I'm in Ulladulla, NSW South Coast, about 2hrs drive south of Wollongong. Thanks for the tip, dunno if I'd be brazen enough to ask him for help though, seeing as I didn't buy anything from him... |
| DavoDavo:
--- Quote from: AdeV on June 05, 2012, 06:30:52 PM --- --- Quote from: DavoDavo on June 05, 2012, 04:21:02 AM ---Does anyone have any ideas? I'm loath to throw it away unless I really have to... --- End quote --- Just a WAG - does it need recalibrating? Wondering if maybe there's a reset switch somewhere, possibly recessed & requiring a bent paperclip to operate, which puts it back to zero? --- End quote --- No, there is nothing like that inside the darned thing, it's all solid state SMD electronics. I wonder if it might respond to something like this though... :hammer: I'm beginning to think that because two of the old batteries ended up with small negative voltages they cancelled the small positive voltage on the remaining one and actually presented a negative voltage to the electronics, thus buggering it. :zap: |
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