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Default Membrane keypads again.

On Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 12:49:54 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 05/01/2016 12:26 PM, wrote:
From your description, it is mechanical. Is there a way, using a dental tool or similar that you might test each wire in the loom as it goes into the connector? I expect you will find the problem there.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

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Press down on each separate wire as it goes into the MPC. A spade-type dental tool is excellent for this purpose. The point being that if the connector holds when under stress, but fails when there is no stress, it is very most likely mechanical.

And, of course, it could be two-or-more things if you, in fact, bridged something replacing a resistor.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA