@TechConnectify Curious if you've received the brake light update for your Ioniq yet. I got mine (checks notes)... mid-November, and wonder if you've done any experiments to see if they've fixed the brake light behavior with i-Pedal and other regen. That seems to have been a Big Fuss that Hyundai actually took note of. Worthy of a follow-up vid?
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Wish I took more photos, but after a fair bit of work, it's all back to life. Always a treat seeing the printer mechanism slowly whirr back to life - the motor weak with oxidation at first, then with some torque, it speeds up and remains fast and powerful again - waking from its 20-to-30 year nap. Still need to replace the main computer's LCD (waiting for shipment) but it's readable enough to use for now. Had to patch a broken trace in the tape-load circuit, but now all working!
Inside the printer is a 4-cell AA battery pack, which I intend to replace (as with the last one) with a pack from Amazon that's already on the way. The new pack is 2000mAh (at 4.8v). The original, 42 year old pack? 450mAh (at 4.8v).
I also discovered that battery corrosion carries through copper wires.
The screen is pretty trashed, but not the worst I've seen. Every one of them suffers from an unknown flaw at the time -- the screen's liquid crystal, which is literally liquid typically sealed between two panes of glass, didn't seal that well. So it does this.
I somehow became addicted to repairing 80s Pocket Computers. These things are quite interesting - ahead of their time, a bit... This first model was made in 1980. Yes, 42-43 years old. Has a pocket sized dot-matrix printer.
The TRS-80 Pocket Computer (retroactively named PC-1) is a rebadged Sharp PC-1211; I fixed the PC-1 first, now time to fix the PC-1211 version.
This is the second one I've done. #retrocomputers #tandy
@TechConnectify I paid $150 for it new on craigslist lol
It's definitely a tech that manufacturers seem to be hiding/not wanting to promote -- like portable heat pump units (also which I have/use/love).
Maybe useful for part 2,
@TechConnectify ? 😄 ☝️
Around 5 months in now with a house of 4 using it regularly. Would be awesome to share experience. Uses 1/8 the energy (600w) of my previous dryer (5000w), needs no outside vent, and just takes 3x the time and extra filter cleaning.
Always entertaining to pull out the water tank and dump it into the washer to drain. I could just connect the drain pipe to the drain instead of the tank but I find the water-dumping quite amusing.
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