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---+!! Repair your JBR V1 battery connectors

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---++ Symptoms
A loose battery connector can give all kinds of weird behaviour:

   * Drastically lowered battery runtime
   * It shuts down or reboots when you squeeze the bumpers
   * It refuses to start up, saying something like this:

<verbatim>
        HD register error
        SC1 (85) 128
        SN1 (170) 128
        SC2 (170) 128
        SN2 (85) 128
</verbatim>

---++ Performing the surgery
First you open up your recorder, this is described [[DisassemblePlayer][here]].

This picture shows you the two solder joints that most often are broken.

<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/solderjoints.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/solderjoints_t.jpg" alt="Solder joints" width='400' height='183' border='0' /></a>

Now you fire up your soldering iron and resolder the joints. Make sure that the PCB really is connected to the metal housing.

<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/solderjoints2.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/solderjoints2_t.jpg" alt="Solder joints" width='284' height='200' border='0' /></a>

Once you have resoldered all joints, reassemble the recorder and start it up. The reassembly is described here.

Good luck!

_Linus_

r1 - 01 Feb 2007 - 21:17:07 - LinusNielsenFeltzing