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Bodge Wires on LC III Motherboard?

Posted by: techknight on 2018-08-22 17:05:15 Not going to stay working for long. Needs caps!

Posted by: Iesca on 2018-08-22 19:38:15 Tim just sent me a pic of his machine, which also contains the wired leads. I think it's safe to say that this was at least a semi-regular thing for the LC IIIs, whatever the reason.

Posted by: IIfx on 2018-08-22 20:21:11 The issue probably was a PCB design error that made it to the final production run. Could have been something completely show stopping, i.e dead on arrival logic boards, or it could be a stability fix of some type that was incorporated in later revisions. Bodge wire jobs make a lot more sense than just throwing out fixable boards.

Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2018-10-09 12:38:37 I have similar wires on my LCIII and remember the old thread from when I got mine and had to look it up! Yeah must have been a factory PCB error that needed mass repair.  Fun stuff.  The repair must have been decent because it seems like most of them are still working!

Posted by: plb007 on 2019-06-11 13:13:33 Here's a pictures of both my LCIII's, one with the "fix", one without (REV D board). Those boards are european, so the problem with early/bad board production was worldwide.

Posted by: ironborn65 on 2020-12-15 23:46:33 adding the pics of my mother board to this old thread, to confirm it"s actually a factory hot fix

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