RE: I Robot joystick problems

I don't know if you saw my reply on the ng, but I'd recommend starting w/
the caps on the HE boards.

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> From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
> [mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of joemagiera
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:07 PM
> To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: RASTER: I Robot joystick problems
>
>
> My I Robot is having recurring joystick problems. When it's
> left on too
> long, the joystick starts being goofy. It obviously is some
> sort of heat
> problem, as when the fan wasn't working the problem would show up in a
> couple of hours. I fixed the fan, and now the problem
> doesn't show up until
> about 4 hours.
>
> Upon start up (and even a few hours later), the joystick
> works fine and will
> pass the self test.
>
> However after 4 hours or so, it starts responding silly (it
> isn't totally
> dead, it just randomly does not respond correctly). If I do
> the self tests
> at this point, it reports that the joystick has "bad
> stability". When I
> look in the owners manual for this self test, it just says
> "have joystick
> serviced". Thanks a lot!
>
> Anyhow, anyone have any ideas where to start or what chip may
> control this,
> etc.? Thanks,
>
> Joe
> joemagiera@ameritech.net
>
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Received on Thu Nov 13 01:29:27 2003