WARNING: Serious flaw in LXX Perfection Controller

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 10:21 pm

Fellas, one day for no apparent reason my LXX perfection bit just stopped working. The main symptom was that the power LED on the controller turned off even though the controller was powered on. I also noticed that the batteries got very hot. There was a short somewhere on the controller PCB.

After a bit of stuffing around and testing with my multimeter I found the problem. The power LED leads were shorting to ground!!! This basically meant that the batteries were shorted and no power was going to the controller circuit.

Here's a pic showing the LXX perfection controller PCB, the power LED is circled in yellow.

Here's a close-up showing the source of the problem. Bloody crappy Chinese QA processes! arghhh!

To fix it I put a piece of rubber tyre to insulate the LED pins from the PCB.

All done. Now she works without any problems. I hope this helps anyone else that has had this problem....

ph2t.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:16 pm

even if your tx isn't playing up, it's worth having a look in there anyway. i did and found some dry solder joins and parts that were touching that shouldn't

Post by **CaboWabo** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:46 pm

dude, nice find and fix ph2t!
I don't have an LXX myself, but I know alot of pimps do - I'm sure you're not the only one who's Tx went wonky - but probably the only one to beat it back down and fix it.

great info and shots homey

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:55 pm

That is good to know. That's a potential fire hazard right there.

So am I to assume that it worked fine for a while, then when the LED somehow got pushed down that's when the trouble started?