No components there that you should worry about damaging, so
go ahead and touch it with a spot of solder if that's easier
for you. We would of course fix it for you at no charge if
you prefer.
Regarding the cigarette lighter adapter, we've had quite a
bit of call for this. We just might offer one in the
future. If you do one, be aware of possible noise issues
(sometimes manifests itself as a repeating "wave" in your
data while at rest, or simply as "noise" in the chart).
Also, you must be sure to get 8volts or more to the system.
Around 7volts you'll get a low battery message on newer
cubes w/ a PC. That feature will also be on Palms shortly.
I can't bless everyone's homebuilt power supplies of course,
but done properly there's no reason why they shouldn't work
just fine.
--Byron
GSMnow@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/16/00 1:12:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
> prgallo@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << The black battery wire broke off in the power module. It came off right at
> the little spot of solder. Any tips would be appreciate it, I'm guessing if
> I can find a small hobby soldering iron it would get hot enough, do I need
> to be concerned with heat damaging anything? >>
>
> I had this happen (at the nationals warm up), but it was no big deal to
> solder on the surface of the board. There does not seem to be any sensitive
> components on the power unit board. I could not pull the board out, so I
> tined the wire with solder, heated it and pushed it into the board hole, it
> worked fine.
>
> Gary M.
>
> P.S. I am going to make a 12 volt power adapter to run it from the car. I
> kill a 9 volt battery every 2 events or so. Since the palm is self powered, I
> don't think I will have any noise issues, I will have it filtered and
> regulated to 8 volts. I'll let the list know how it works out.
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