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Thought it might be better here because most people runninf forced induction are running a PowerFC.

Anyway - My Handcontroller is broken. The Screen works perfect, but the green back light is now very dim. It lights up when I bend the top of the controller a little.

I've had my mate look at it (he's an electronics engineer) and he says the board might have proken. When you bend the little tabs and take the screen off, and put it back on, and maybe move it to one side slightly it works for a few days and then goes out again.

My main question is though - Does anyone know anyone around australia that fixes them?

Thanks guys

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we checked all of that, the screen isn't actually soldered on - Its held onto contacts via bend tabs.

I've tried moving it around but if you move it too much it touches other "touch pins" and the screens starts to skew a little.

I've even thought of adding external wires over the circut board to get the power up there. Its power to the back lights, not the screen.

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  The Mafia said:
we checked all of that, the screen isn't actually soldered on - Its held onto contacts via bend tabs.

I've tried moving it around but if you move it too much it touches other "touch pins" and the screens starts to skew a little.

I've even thought of adding external wires over the circut board to get the power up there. Its power to the back lights, not the screen.

You could probably just use a multi meter to find the live come up the existing wires then just tap into that and re-wire the backlight.

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Cubes has his Pfc fixed by force electronics (here in Adelaide) so they would be able to fix the hand controller no probs.

Im suprised your mate cant fix (or doesnt want to :laugh:) but any -good- electronics place should be able to fix it....

Have u seen the controllers with blue led's in them...looks good i think :D nice mod i might do one day

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  Bl4cK32 said:
Cubes has his Pfc fixed by force electronics (here in Adelaide) so they would be able to fix the hand controller no probs.

Im suprised your mate cant fix (or doesnt want to :dry:) but any -good- electronics place should be able to fix it....

Have u seen the controllers with blue led's in them...looks good i think :P nice mod i might do one day

awesome.

Do you have their contact details?

My mate could fix it, but its probably better I get some people that have dealt with them before to fix it. He said he could and to bring it back to him if I wanted it to, but he lives next door to my ex girlfriend lol.

And besides, this force electronics place might know exactly what the problem is.

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Mine has done this twice, and both times it was when the car has been parked in the sun on very hot days. The screen becomes nearly unreadable. Once it cools down it's fine again... how strange.

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no thats a very bad idea because they may use different voltages.....take it to a electronics repair place or if you said your mates a eletronics enginerr he should be able to fix it easy as for you.

no its not a bad idea because you use a multi meter to find the correct voltage.

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