iwaver on the blink

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- July 6, 2004 at 9:27 pm #12244
  mocky
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  Just got the iwaver and its beginning to show some bad signs, the other day my iwaver suddenly started to steer more to the left than the right and wen eva i turn the servo makes a buzzing sounds, ive got problems but does anyone have the solution?
- July 7, 2004 at 4:20 am #53241
  betty.k
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  i had this prob, but to the right. there’s a trimpot on the pcb towards the front that adjusts the steering bias. be very gentle with this pot as it’s easy to damage. mine gradually got worse to the point where it wouldn’t go straight with all trims fully left. i had to bite the bullet and replace the servo pot which is a huge improvement over the crappy stock one. pricey but….:8ball:
- July 7, 2004 at 2:25 pm #53245
  Geo-Z
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  mocky,
  
  If you’ve smashed your car rather violently into a wall or something, the steering pot on the PCB may have been wacked outta alignment. it’s a small ring set within a prominent raised component on the circuit board, with a CROSS shaped hole in the middle. It’s a risky thing to have right, so do a search on all major mini-z sites for it……
- July 7, 2004 at 2:27 pm #53246
  Geo-Z
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  BTW mocky i think you have my cross head screwdriver…i am missing it from last sunday and i confirmed neither dgs, jay-z, talldude nor kevsta has it. I’ll need it back next sunday.
- July 7, 2004 at 5:36 pm #53251
  mocky
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  sorry geo but i dont have it either.
- July 7, 2004 at 8:47 pm #53263
  dgs73
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  what’s it look like Geo? I’ll wager I know who’s nicked it…
- July 7, 2004 at 9:39 pm #53265
  mocky
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  LOlz a wager! I have a feeling fingers are goin my direction, but seriously i dont have it i have all the screw drivers i would ever need.I’ve turned ova my room twice and i still havent found anything suspicious except a banana peel.
  
  Edited by – mocky on 07 July 2004 17:41:52
- July 7, 2004 at 10:34 pm #53269
  peteWah
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  Who else was there other than who was mentioned and i guess it leaves only one pep:smiley2::smiley2::smiley2:
- July 8, 2004 at 12:43 pm #53278
  Aaron
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  Well it _wasn’t_ me 😛
  
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- July 8, 2004 at 1:01 pm #53280
  dgs73
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  and I was so certain it was too… hehehe. Nah Mock, i’m not pointing at you matey. Iknow one person down there who’s light fingered with others lighters, so why not a screwdriver now and then? Pete; where’d you disapear to last night? oh, forest, btw.
- July 8, 2004 at 1:30 pm #53284
  jamiekulhanek
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  I’m sorry geo, it was me, i’ll give it back asap :D:D:D
- July 8, 2004 at 1:41 pm #53285
  Aaron
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  😯
  
  There may be an International gang of tool thieves in operation!
  
  A.
  
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- July 8, 2004 at 2:28 pm #53287
  dgs73
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  and here I was thinking Bithed had borrowed it… stashed it in your j string, did you Jamie?:clown:
- July 8, 2004 at 4:25 pm #53288
  Geo-Z
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  whatever. their cheap anyways.
- July 8, 2004 at 4:26 pm #53289
  Geo-Z
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  whatever. their cheap anyways.
- July 8, 2004 at 7:03 pm #53301
  dgs73
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  now you’ve said that, the guilty party will be eyeing off other tools and stuff… keep eyes open dude. We’re a little to free and easy with both our tools and our toys…
- July 8, 2004 at 8:30 pm #53307
  TallduDe
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  i did a qik check i aint got any of your stuff dude.
  
  i get paranoid when i see strangers come up to us and stand near our stuff :dead:
  
  btw mocky hows the iwaver? still got those probs?
- July 8, 2004 at 8:41 pm #53308
  mocky
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  well today the whole thing just died. It was working fine in the morning but in the arvo i decide to whack it out for a bit of fun and it a bit fuzzy. Wen i was first running it was a bit sluggish, didn’t turn well and then it just died. It wouldnt move and i was only 5 metres from it. Picked it up and the steering was still barely alive and den that gave up on me a few minutes latr. now all the car can do is make weird whizzing sounds. very :angry: atm.thought it was working and den it decided to break down. everyone down a meadowbank can have a bit of a poke around this sunday. HEHHEHEHEEE hope some1 can revive it.
- July 8, 2004 at 8:46 pm #53310
  kevsta
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  Might be your personal hand wound motor – fets burnt out perhaps.
  
  Probably should have let it be rather than going over it with the solder iron.
  
  Gotta give em time to burn in properly…
- July 8, 2004 at 9:06 pm #53311
  mocky
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  dunnoe bout the motor, it was working for hours and hours b4 it died. AS for goin ova it with a soldering iron, it was 3 days ago, working fine till today. I really have nod idea wat went wrong, but needs to be solved, my folks are givin ye old lecture againsblackeye:. lets hope ph2t or jamie can rememdy dis.
- July 8, 2004 at 9:11 pm #53312
  merc-blue
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  if the steerings dead then it cant be fets casue u would stil hae servo drive fets just not motor drive fets
- July 9, 2004 at 2:56 am #53318
  Tim
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  mocky is the batteries that are dead that has happened to me before:smiley2:or lose wires? :question:
- July 9, 2004 at 2:56 pm #53332
  Geo-Z
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  mercblue’s right, if the steering is kaput, then it may be a loose wire in the power structure….or maybe that motor drew too many amps and the battery terminal springs have deformed themselves. This once happened to mine, the turbo shorted out and the battery terminals got heated to the point they lost their springyness. simplypull out the springs again with a plier….
- July 9, 2004 at 9:25 pm #53351
  mocky
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  ok, ive opened the thing up, all the battery terminal are still soldered in and the springs still springing.
- July 10, 2004 at 12:44 am #53355
  mocky
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  okay any1 believe in a god? cos at 8:42pm Friday i witnessed a miracle by one!
  i decided to give the iwaver one last try, and i wacked in some old alkalines i had laying around, and BAM! The kitten purs again MWHAHAHHAHAA. So any1 shave me like a monkey, time to whip out the booze and celebrate.
  
  Edited by – mocky on 09 July 2004 20:45:34
- July 10, 2004 at 3:39 am #53360
  Tim
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  Hahaha i was right it was the battery wasn’t it:smiley2:
- July 10, 2004 at 5:00 pm #53371
  mocky
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  no bloody idea wat was stuffed in the pcb , btw i was runnign some charged nimhs wen it got screwed and i replaced it with alkalines latr on.At this point i dont care, it works, good enough for me 😀
- July 11, 2004 at 2:59 am #53396
  Geo-Z
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  mocky, sometimes the short goes all the way back into the batteries, so the batteries might have shorted out……my NIMH’s once shorted out, they were so hot it smoked! after 6 hours, they seem to go back to norm…..
- July 11, 2004 at 11:52 am #53400
  mocky
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  mmmmmmmmmm, i noe that smell, happens to portable mini fan, afta i modded it with 18 guage wire. brings bak memories. everything is bak to normal so all is well in the house of mocky.
- July 11, 2004 at 2:42 pm #53404
  peteWah
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  Cooking batt cells hey, somthing wrong there.blackeye:
- July 12, 2004 at 1:06 pm #53412
  dgs73
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  good to see things are sorted out mate… odd bout the batteries though
- July 12, 2004 at 1:37 pm #53421
  jamiekulhanek
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  According to betty.k, the i waver swith is in series with the power supply, which is a stupid, stupid, stupid thang.
  
  This could be a problem with using NIMHs, as they pass more current than alkalines, and may be owning the switch.
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