• Re: OT--Actual elecytronics repair question

    From Charles Lucas@21:1/5 to Meat Plow on Sun Jul 10 14:02:09 2022
    On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 1:31:52 PM UTC-6, Meat Plow wrote:
    Yaesu VX-5R tri-band hand held. Momentary contact power on/off button.
    I've owned this radio for 9 or 10 years. Recently I have to push several times on this rubber on/off button to get the radio to come on. But it
    always takes just one touch to turn it off. And the radio works fine otherwise including all the other buttons. Just have to play around
    pressing the button maybe three/four/five times. Sometimes it powers on
    when pressed once! But always shuts off with just one easy push.
    This indicates to me that it's not a problem with button contact but
    rather a microprocessor problem.
    Discuss.
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    Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse

    I would use contact cleaner and clean the power switch. Dirty switch can act like the
    module or micro did not see the command.

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