Re: Craig Radio UPDATE

["Jan van de Wouw" <Jan@xxxx>]

--- In dmcnews, Delorean17 wrote:
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> I then spliced into the ACC wire right before it goes inside 
> the radio housing and it had no power. So now I know the
> problem is between the connector and the radio. I removed
> the black covering that is wrapped around a small circuit board
> looking thing and saw that it was cracked. I sorta squeezed the
> board together and then radio worked perfectly holding its 
> presets. Can this circuit board thing be replaced? It is so
> cracked I really don't want to mess with repairing it. 

In theory you can do without this little board, since it is nothing 
more than noise-suppression; it filters out spikes and such from the 
power, so the radio doesn't get as much interference.
There's a good chance Radio Shack or something similar can sell you
an external suppression-board, so you dont have to go fiddling with 
the original. If you do want to keep the original; I have had some 
quite good experiences with soldering peices of stripped wire over 
PCB-tracks. Doesn't look as good, but the repairs I did still hold!
When you have the board fixed, just put it in a little projectbox
(also available at Radio Shack), so it doesn't break again.

Good luck on the repairs,

JAN van de Wouw
Thinking Different... Using a Mac...
Living the Dream... Driving a DeLorean...

#05141 "Dagger" since Sept. 2000

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