[BC] More Moseley remote control stories...

[Harold Hallikainen]

> I had a TRC-15 that intermittently hit every LOWER
> relay. I disconnected all the sensitive contacts, opened
> the FP drawer. Just tapping on the top PC board made
> the ralays jump. I found that the large chip in the
> front of the unit had sockets with no plastic
> shell. I removed the chip, cleaned the pins with an
> eraser, and sprayed the sockets with contact cleaner.
> Carefully inserting and removing the chip to clean
> the sockets solved the problem.
>
> Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE


Those "IC socket on a strip" things were made by Molex, I think. I tried
using them for a while, but the lack of a plastic body made the spring
contact with the chip leads get pretty bad after a while. Also, for a
while, TI was silver plating their leads. The silver would tarnish and
you'd have a bad connection. Not quite today's surface mount stuff!

Harold


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