Urgent help requested

#1 10-13-2002, 08:10 PM

I'm playing frankenstein with my Zip Zap and Microsizer and I accidentally mis-labeled the steering wires.

Coming out of the left side there's a copper wire and a black wire. Coming out the right side there's another copper wire and another black wire.

2 wires hook up to the same terminal as the positive battery, and one to the "L" pad on the board, and another to the "R" pad on the board. Could anyone tell me what goes where? Right now I'm only turning right.

I hooked the copper wire on the left side up to the "R" pad, the black wire on the right side to the "L" pad, and the remaining ones up to the positive pad. It's not working right.

Thnx in adv.

#2 10-13-2002, 10:00 PM

Am I seeing this correctly? The dark wires hook up to the solder pads and the clearcoated (copper color) ones both hook to positive?

I've searched and I can't find anyone that's posted the actual location of the wires, just links to the pics.

shred · #3 10-13-2002, 10:07 PM

sorry for your troubles...
if you can explain a little better what your looking for i can pop my micro apart and see if i can help

#4 10-13-2002, 10:19 PM

there's four little thin wires that handle steering. two are plain copper color, and 2 have a darker laquer coating. If you could tell me where the wires go that'd be excellent. 2 of them hook to the board at the same spot as the thick red wire that comes from the battery. The other 2 go to different spots. one of them goes next to the label "R" and the other to a spot with "L" next to it.

Any tips you can give me are appreciated. If you could even verify that both of the copper colored wires join the red wire to the board that would be plenty of help

Nightwing · #5 10-13-2002, 10:37 PM

One way to seperate the two coils is if you have a VOM or DVOM.

Switch to resistance. See which two give a reading. That is one coil the other set is the other coil.

Connect one set back to two of the steering pads power up and see which way the tires turns.

If correct connect the other two wires to the remian pads. Else switch those two to the other two pads and connect the last to to the other not connected pads.

#6 10-13-2002, 11:02 PM

DOH. Thanks.

<---- I'm Stupid.

#7 10-13-2002, 11:24 PM

Actually that doesn't help me. I tried hooking it up with both copper colored lines to positive. no dice.

I know which wires go to which coil but I don't know what polarity to use to hook these up.

Nightwing · #8 10-13-2002, 11:38 PM

On my ZZ it goes as follows:

1 Dark copper wire goes to pad maked L Between B- and B+

1 Dark copper wire goes to the center pad where the red wire is

1 Light copper wire goes to the center pad where the red wire is

1 Light copper wire goes to pad marked R

I thought of that also. Not sure if it matters but you have only four ways to hook them up that alter the phase.

Hum. Wonder if the reason for some strange out of the box stuff is phase of firing the coils.

PS: The odds is that it should work out the same.

Good luck!

#9 10-13-2002, 11:59 PM

This is a map of the relevent connections on the PCB of the MicroSizer. I know for fact that 2 wires hook up to the big solder pad labeled AB. I just don't know which ones go where. I've tried 3 different ways and my steering wires are getting really brittle from the heat. thin wires don't like excessive heat.

I want the next time I hook it up to be the last.

anyone wanna line up the numbers and letters?

pwetty pweeez?

It's not like I'm the only one that'll benefit from this.