Many thanks for your help John! I'll try getting it working again this
weekend. Now if I can just come up with that metal part that broke. If all
else fails, I suppose I could just make my own, I am a machinist after all.
Darin
John wrote:
>
> Short white wire gets spliced to the orange wire. Yellow wire goes to
> other contact on remote socket. Loose end of capacitor on top of motor
> should be soldered to grounding lug of motor with black motor lead.
>
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> Darin wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On closer inspection I found more loose wires than I noticed on my first
>> look. Yes, the short white wire(about 1" long) is still connected to the
>> top
>> contact of the remote jack. There are two wires coming up through the
>> grip,
>> an orange wire connected to the bottom contact of the remote jack, and a
>> yellow wire which is loose. After some fiddling around, it appears that
>> everything works correctly when I connect the loose ends of the white and
>> yellow wire together. Also, there's a black diode, or something, that
>> sits
>> on top of the motor. The diode has arrows pointing to one end, the wire
>> on
>> that end is about 1" long and has come loose from where ever it's
>> supposed
>> to be soldered as well. From the way it's sitting, it would appear that
>> it
>> should be connected to the black wire which comes out of the motor, and
>> is
>> soldered to a contact next to one of the screws on the motor. Does this
>> all
>> sound correct to you?
>>
>> Many thanks again,
>> Darin
>>
>>
>> John Hermanson wrote:
>>
>>>So the white wire is still connected to the remote jack, it's the other
>>>end that broke off? After disassembling my own test MD1, the white wire
>>>(which I though was soldered to a peach colored wire) is actually
>>>orange. How much white wire is showing and is there an orange wire
>>>loose too? If so, they splice together. Other end of orange wire is
>>>soldered to board that presses against spring loaded pins, underneath
>>>the gear plate. You don't want to take that out.
>>>
>>>John,
>>>CPS, Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>>On 11/13/2007 9:01:12 AM, Darin (d.rhein@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>>>
>>>>Piers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Some of us know that Darin (guess how?).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Know what? What ever could you mean? ;^)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I
>>>>
>>>>don't know of a wiring diagram, but there is a schematic from Tim Hughes
>>>>
>>>>>on Mark Dapoz'
>>>>
>>>>website. The schematic is for the MD1 with M18V and
>>>>
>>>>>(separately) for the M15V - it might suit your needs.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/PDFs/OM_15VCtlPack1_03A.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Ok, wow that
>>>>thing's confusing, I hate wiring diagrams.
>>>>
>>>>I guess I should just ask what I need to know. There's
>>>>a white wire
>>>>connected to the remote jack. Anyone know where the other end is
>>>>supposed
>>>>to
>>>>be connected?
>>
>>
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