Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Royce, just to let you know the end of the story:

Apparently they were just dirty!. They seem to work fine now.
I don't have the time to play around with it now, but I need to do a better evaluation so I can discard they are damaged.

So...thank you very much for your help with this issue.

Regards,
Nicolas.


--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rpcfender" <rpcfender@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Nicolas
> 
> > Ok, I have cleaned one of the encoders with contact cleaner. If this doesn't work, I will desolder the encoder and pray it has a code on it!
> 
> They are either optical ( a light shining through holes in a disk) or more likely mechanical (a copper contact slides around copper tracks on a disk) .
> In either case it is likely they are dirty and just need cleaning.
> The worst case would be a broken disk but that only occurs with severe abuse. Or a worn disk , but that is very unlikely as well.
> 
> Most likely a cup of coffee found its way down the shafts and a clean is all that is needed.
> 
> Best of luck
> Royce
>