[Coco] My latest success

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower"
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 9:54 PM
Subject: [Coco] My latest success


>  I intend to get all my X10 working from my Coco again. I have two timers 
> from WAY back then but, one of them did not work correctly. The eight 
> buttons did not work. I have struggled with this issue for too long. They 
> use little snapping switches under the buttons and it just refused to work 
> anymore.
>  So I took it apart, removed the snappers and thoroughly buffed and 
> cleaned the ckt board, re-tinned those contact pads with silver solder and 
> then solder wicked them to remove the excess solder. Cleaned it all up 
> with acetone again, put it back together, with new tape and now.. it's 
> perfect again!!
>  Hurray! So now I have two controller/timers!
>  Next will be a cable to connect them to my CC3 so I can control/program 
> them.
>  I finally found the connectors. I need to complete the wiring/soldering 
> to get the CC3 connected to a timer/controller. Then, I can program one of 
> them to do the "Bill Gates House" thing. The other timer/controller will 
> be used to manually turn up to four devices on and off, however, it can 
> control up to 256 devices(if programmed to do so). Each one can be turned 
> on and off (up and down if it's a lamp controller).
>  It's fun to do this as it was thirty years ago.
>
> George R.
>
> -- 

Very cool, George.