real_firefly
28th October 2006, 15:15
I was cleaning out my harddrive when i found some pictures of my old FFGP wheel:
http://vuurvliegje.ath.cx/filedumpshit/verbrandtn.jpg
As you can see, the chip that drives the force feedback motor is gone.
My powerbrick that came with the wheel was broken, so i took another brick with the same voltage, but i accidently swapped + and -, so it went *poof*.
I removed the chip, but couldn't find a replacement, there was virtually no chip left so i couldn't read the text on top.
Amazingly, the wheel still works fine (well, obviously not the FFB). So it might just work if i replace the burned chip.
Can anyone tell me what chip it is? I tried Logitech support, but they can't help me. I suspect it's a bunch of FETs in a smd dip package, nothing special.
http://vuurvliegje.ath.cx/filedumpshit/verbrandtn.jpg
As you can see, the chip that drives the force feedback motor is gone.
My powerbrick that came with the wheel was broken, so i took another brick with the same voltage, but i accidently swapped + and -, so it went *poof*.
I removed the chip, but couldn't find a replacement, there was virtually no chip left so i couldn't read the text on top.
Amazingly, the wheel still works fine (well, obviously not the FFB). So it might just work if i replace the burned chip.
Can anyone tell me what chip it is? I tried Logitech support, but they can't help me. I suspect it's a bunch of FETs in a smd dip package, nothing special.