Intermittent Light Issues - Fix
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Hi All,
I've been having some intermitted light issues on my T350C like a few others on here and found a solution for mine so through it would be worth passing on.
Behind the dash pod there is a small PCB that with a couple of ribbon cables plugged into running from the light/heating dials on the dash (the same board a few threads have pointed to reseating the ribbon cables on - unfortunately that didn't work for me). At some point this PCB was velcro'd to the top of the inside of the dash but it looks like it's just been knocking about behind the dash for some time. After lots of playing with ribbon cables and poking things I removed the velcro from the back of the PCB and looking closely I could see some of the soldered connections appeared cracked on the back of the board. I tidied up these solders with my basic soldering skills which seems to have fixed it (before doing that just looking at that PCB funny would turn the lights on/off).
Couple of pics below:
PCB
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Back of PCB
|http://thumbsnap.com/ITxXDS0J[/url]
Cracked Solders
One or two of the small LED's on the heater dials still come on and off occasionally so this is still unfinished business (I still think there are some poor connections there). I don't suppose there is a wiring diagram for this PCB to help me figure out which connections i should be focussing on? I'm only an amateur tinkerer so if anyone has anything more please feel free to below.
Andy
I've been having some intermitted light issues on my T350C like a few others on here and found a solution for mine so through it would be worth passing on.
Behind the dash pod there is a small PCB that with a couple of ribbon cables plugged into running from the light/heating dials on the dash (the same board a few threads have pointed to reseating the ribbon cables on - unfortunately that didn't work for me). At some point this PCB was velcro'd to the top of the inside of the dash but it looks like it's just been knocking about behind the dash for some time. After lots of playing with ribbon cables and poking things I removed the velcro from the back of the PCB and looking closely I could see some of the soldered connections appeared cracked on the back of the board. I tidied up these solders with my basic soldering skills which seems to have fixed it (before doing that just looking at that PCB funny would turn the lights on/off).
Couple of pics below:
PCB
[url]Back of PCB
|http://thumbsnap.com/ITxXDS0J[/url]Cracked Solders
One or two of the small LED's on the heater dials still come on and off occasionally so this is still unfinished business (I still think there are some poor connections there). I don't suppose there is a wiring diagram for this PCB to help me figure out which connections i should be focussing on? I'm only an amateur tinkerer so if anyone has anything more please feel free to below.
Andy
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