Hello All,
most logical place to post this in my mind but, I'd appreciate the mods moving it, if there is a better section for it
Bushnell Yardage Pro took a dip in a freshwater lake on Saturday.
I removed the battery, took it apart, and left it to dry for two days on the radiator.
I have bought a new (9v) battery, put it back together, and tried it.
It works, but only "sort of".
Normal operation should be:
look through the eyepiece, and view the target;
press the little button, to "range" the target (at this point, the LCD overlay on the eyepiece comes on, with a crosshairs on the target, and a yardage number to said target);
after 30 or so seconds, the LCD overlay auto-shuts off.
Current operation is that, all of the time that the battery is connected, the entire LCD display is on (crosshairs, the range displays as 1888 - i.e. all of the numerals fully illuminated, battery "low" indicator on (2 x brand-new batteries tested, on multimeter).......)
I'm hoping it's some sort of temporary short somewhere, perhaps a drop of water on the internal of the "on" button, rather than something terminal.
The "on" button is a flat piece of clear polythene-looking stuff, with four tracks on a clear ribbon, leading to the PCB; I can't dismantle the button, to see if it has any obvious shorts (or is even jammed in the "on" position").
Any ideas on the way forward?
TIA
most logical place to post this in my mind but, I'd appreciate the mods moving it, if there is a better section for it
Bushnell Yardage Pro took a dip in a freshwater lake on Saturday.
I removed the battery, took it apart, and left it to dry for two days on the radiator.
I have bought a new (9v) battery, put it back together, and tried it.
It works, but only "sort of".
Normal operation should be:
look through the eyepiece, and view the target;
press the little button, to "range" the target (at this point, the LCD overlay on the eyepiece comes on, with a crosshairs on the target, and a yardage number to said target);
after 30 or so seconds, the LCD overlay auto-shuts off.
Current operation is that, all of the time that the battery is connected, the entire LCD display is on (crosshairs, the range displays as 1888 - i.e. all of the numerals fully illuminated, battery "low" indicator on (2 x brand-new batteries tested, on multimeter).......)
I'm hoping it's some sort of temporary short somewhere, perhaps a drop of water on the internal of the "on" button, rather than something terminal.
The "on" button is a flat piece of clear polythene-looking stuff, with four tracks on a clear ribbon, leading to the PCB; I can't dismantle the button, to see if it has any obvious shorts (or is even jammed in the "on" position").
Any ideas on the way forward?
TIA
