Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2100 keypad?

2008-07-22 Thread Chuck Harris
Hi Dan, It is a very well known problem. As the key contacts age and get dirty, they sort of "fry" rather than make a clean contact. You can gain a short term fix by replacing the two 1uf tantalum key debounce caps with a larger value. These capacitors are axial leaded hermetically sealed wet s

[time-nuts] Austron 2100 keypad?

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Rae
My 2100 timing receiver (no suffix) has started to give me problems with what looks like bounce from the keypad switches, with a lot of numbers repeating without being asked. Is this a known problem with these units, and is there a known fix? I don't think the guts of the pad are accessible f