Thread: [DEAD]Project Turtle: 1993 Toyota Tercel/56K=FAIL

Originally Posted by freeflashstuff

I'm back from Lubbock as of Saturday and there is no school today, but the electricity in my house decided to go FUBAR and so I'm stuck helping my mother figure out WTF is wrong. If I get the chance, I'mm gonna mix up some resin and see if that will solidify enough to make the box what I want. Thanks for the idea rdholtz!

Good luck with the power problems. And especially good luck with the cardboard + resin project. If I wasn't leaving for a month on the road, I'd have grabbed some resin components and played with the same kind of thing, just to see what we'd get. I have high hopes for you . . .

I didn't exactly get a chance todya, but we did get the electrical problem fixed. It was a bad fuse socket... We don't have breakers because our house is so old... LOL

Originally Posted by freeflashstuff

We don't have breakers because our house is so old... LOL

I've had two houses with systems so old they still had screw-in fuses. I rented a house that had them, and just put up with them for a year. Then I bought my first house, and it had them as well. That place was built in 1911, and it had 30A service for the entire house; I couldn't use the toaster while my wife was using her hair dryer. One of my early renovations was to have new service (and a new breaker box) installed; then I rewired the whole house over the next year.

If you look around, they make (or at least they used to make) circuit breakers that fit the screw-in fuse openings, and I think they are (were) available from 5A to 30A. They look like fuses, but each one has a little white button that pops up when it blows. Push the button down, and you're back in business. Then you get to go track down what's popping the breaker. Each breaker cost as much as a whole box of fuses, but they never needed replacement. I don't know if Home Depot carries them, but if you have an old-timey hardware store in the area, they probably have some.

I found 15A and 20A but no 30A... Maybe the next time I go to Roswell I'll check at Home Depot. As for the box, I'm gonna try for tomorrow on a smaller, experimental box. If it comes out as well as I hope, mine will be done the same way, then maybe I'll paint it(???)

I PM'd Nexson, and he suggested that I used a wooden box instead of the cardboard and resin. I had planned on doing that if the cardboard thing failed...

Well, I got my Lilliput EBY701 in yesterday, and the VGA/USB cable is FUBAR. I'm pretty ticked off right now. It will display RCA video-in, but no VGA or touchscreen stuff works. The touchscreen won't even show up in Add New Hardware...

Bump... Has anyone else had this issue?

Did you check that little connector that goes to the screen? Maybe you bent the pins or something? I have 4 Eby701s and non of them have that issue. If its not the connectors, then something happened to the main circuit board. If the screen is opened, try examining it and looking for burn marks, maybe you piut the wrong polarity to the screen and fried the part that allow you to switch, which is also connected with the touchscreen controller.

Also check the small ribbon that goes from the button panel to the main control board.

I checked the pins and they were all OK. I called Lilliput, and they are sending me a return label so I can get a new one. We'll see what happens.