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Would be great if I could have one, so please add me to the list. To be sent to the Netherlands. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I would like to join the preorder list! I want one for my Lynx II. Thanx, in advance.

Hi there everybody, I have the following Issue with a Lynx I. Left on the D-pad is not working. After closer examination of the PCB it is clear what happened: The trace of the left D-pad button runs through the center of the 4 D-pad, exactly where the central tilting axis of the D-pad rests on the PCB. Due to heavy use, the part of PCB directly underneath the D-pad axis has started deteriorating, severing the trace of the D-pad left button. I tried repairing it using conducting ink, but it was for me impossible to only expose the copper of the trace and the trace is very fine. The result was no connection or a shortcut with the surrounding ground, resulting in continues left-input. So I cleaned it up again. I attached a foto of how it looks now. Has anyone experience with repairing this issue or similar PCB damage? I have already been looking into repair using copper or silver wire and using insulating arcylic or silicon based conformal coatings, but I am still a novice at this. Any tips on good PCB repair tools products for hobbyists are welcome. Is it me, or is running this trace directly underneath the area, where the tilt-axis touches the PCB a design fault or not? Thanks advance!

I finished the 5v regulator and McWill mod on one of my Lynx II's last Wednesday-evening, and I am very happy with the result. Especially as I am still quite a noob at soldering. These two youtube video's of (Daniele Tartaglia and GadgetUK164) where a great help: https://youtu.be/NG9TNKmcv84?list=FLKRM8m1aiCV_KkO7H7AYwOQ https://youtu.be/uBHiWqV_V_I?list=FLKRM8m1aiCV_KkO7H7AYwOQ I found the soldering to pin-2 for the backlight button functionality and to lesser extend the soldering of the ground point (near the flat-cable of the new screen) quite challenging. The instructions state that this flat-cable can be detached, but I could not work out the release mechanism and did not want to use force on so I left it in place. The paragraph of the instructions about the different chipsets and use of res or tpr is as it seems that the tpr point is under the copper shield on the Lynx II? So I just used res and checked the result, which was fine. I was also wondering of the impact on battery life of these two mods. So I devised an experiment to make a time-lapse video of a modified lynx II and stock one side by side, with the same game and same brand of fully charged batteries, to see which would run the longest (just replaying the intro of the game). Little did I know that the lynx II has a 1hr auto power-off feature when no buttons are pressed, so both shut down simultaneously after 1hr . I have to rethink that one... But still this screen mod by McWill is gorgeous and pure quality! So kudos to McWill!!

I really like the idea of having a USB rechargable lipo powering a Lynx. I even saw on the adafruit website a kit with inductor coils for wireless charging. That would be bliss, to have dock to put your Lynx in and have it recharge via induction! Just getting a bit carried away here :-)

Thanks, the 5v mod it is then...

Hi, I'm another newbie on this forum and in the process of reconditioning some of my five atari lynxes using all the shared knowledge on this forum. Great stuff!. But my question: I have one Lynx I not powering up with 9V adapter or batteries, but working using the 6V adapter trick, can this be fixed using this Recom voltage controller mod, or replacing Q12 (Q11 on Lynx I) with the N-channel mosfet? I understand that doing both is best to keep them in working order. But I would like to know the minimal repair needed.