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It's not 'normal' so if it meters out ok with and without it your fine... if it doesn't , you might want to trace where the actual break might be in the traces...

Normally such a repair would be flat against the pcb... this one is odd in that it appears raised up in the air a little bit. Dead via or cut trace is what your looking for otherwise there is no point to the bridge.

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2 hours ago, archeocomp said:

Am I the only one who does not see any wire bridge to several pokey pins? I only see one bridge to the mount hole.

I was kinda thinking the same thing!

 

IMO, as The Doc said - If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Plenty of 8 bit machines in the day had oddity little mods from the factory.

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1 hour ago, Rybags said:

On the XL (sort of except 1200) POT4 thru POT7 aren't used and according to the schematics seem to be tied to GND as well as receiving a weak pullup voltage shared with the keyboard (?)

Thank you Rybags

The trace connected to GND does go to those POT’s

Rich

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So, we're back to, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That I can see, you've never once mentioned whether or not your computer is working. What is wrong with it? What are you trying too fix?

 

Also, for the record, I don't see the wire bridge either. But then, without a call-out or some point of reference, I have trouble seeing things on the back of a jumbled PCB.

 

I hoped you get it working again soon.

 

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2 hours ago, bfollowell said:

So, we're back to, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That I can see, you've never once mentioned whether or not your computer is working. What is wrong with it? What are you trying too fix?

 

Also, for the record, I don't see the wire bridge either. But then, without a call-out or some point of reference, I have trouble seeing things on the back of a jumbled PCB.

 

I hoped you get it working again soon.

 

The wire bridge is directly in the center of first image.I don’t know how to do a call-out, being a newly on the forum.

The 600 is working well having just installed UAV and 64K upgrade with 4164 chips and 3 wire method.

Thanks to members contributions on this forum, I found all required information.

Rich

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Ok, I think I see it. And by call-out, I didn't mean any special tool or anything within the forums. I just meant something as simple as dumping the picture into Paint or some basic image editor and putting a circle around the area or something, just to make it a little easier for others to see exactly what you're talking about.

 

I'm glad your 600XL is working well.

 

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