17 Dec
2017
17 Dec
'17
10:13 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Aaron
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Sent: 17 December 2017 17:56
To: Aaron Jackson <aaron at aaronsplace.co.uk>; General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: RL02 weirdness
I just checked and it looks like they are in correctly. The head for the
top-side
I wonder
if you fell into the 'trap for the unwary' here. The heads
are named by the direction they face. So the upper head, nearest the
top of the drive, is the 'down' had as it faces down onto the
platter. Similarly the lower head is the 'up' head. Yes, it confused
me at first,
I'm not sure, because the labels on the female connector says up or
down, as does the circuit board. So I connected them so up->up and
down->down, which resulted in this crash. So maybe the person who used
it before me fell into the trap you mention, failed to get it to work,
and then ended up with me in a none-working state? of the platter is labelled down, and the lower
head is facing up. The only
thing I changed is connecting up->up and down->down.
So, I'm not sure. I cleaned the packs well a while back - I'm just hoping
there
wasn't something left over which caused the
crash.
Thanks,
Aaron.
If these are the ones you got from may I may have put the leads back the
wrong way round. :-(
I suspect they have been bounced about so much in my car they may be out of
alignment.
I would see about checking the alignment before doing anything else...
Dave