Ripley's TnA (Talk n Action) Repair Thread

[ripley802]

Wow...getting intense now with my repairs/tests..lol..

So, I received my lot of transistors


Well the scavenged James I was testing with I had tried a couple different types of these and nothing was working. It would immediately turn on the motor?? I thought maybe the circuit board was hosed as I had been removing and adding things to it and maybe something else got messed up. I tried a second scavenged James motor, same thing... hmm we're my transistors bad? I then got the Japanese James (from the beginning of this thread out, is it still in parts awaiting a repair. I removed the transistor, and guess what... wrong one.. I removed the one for sound..grrrr. I put that one back, then removed the other. I swapped in one of the new transistors and it was working. I tried another one, and still worked fine.

So, I could not tell a noticeable difference in speed with swapping these but it is nice to have replacements. It could be the fix for some of the slowness issues though. TBD...