6-in-1 Switcher Repair

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Ok. Here's the story. A friend bought a 6-in-1 switcher from Jammaboards.com. He sent it directly to me to get the mods done to it. When I used the remote to test the slots, I had to press the button upwards of 10 times for each slot to get it to change. That should have been the first clue right there, but because it was working, I assumed it was a weak battery. That was not to be the case.

I sent the switcher back to the buyer and he reported that it wouldn't switch at all. I told him it was giving me issues also, but it WAS switching. He said it was dead no matter what he did. He replaced the remote's battery to no avail. He ended up going over to a friend's place who also had a switcher and the remote worked great on his friend's switcher.

He contacted Jammaboards.com and they wanted him to buy a new switcher. F that. So, he boxed the switcher and remote up and sent it all back to me to take a look at. First thing I did was verify the problem. Yup, NOTHING I did would make the damn thing switch. I decided to start with re-flowing all the solder points on the receiver unit...


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...and BAM! Switcher works great now in all aspects. I just wanted to put this out there in case anyone ever gets one of these things and it's intermittant, or not switching like this one was, one thing you can do is reflow all the pads on the RT/TX board. That worked for me!

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
 
It's a shame that Jammaboard is selling these POS boards and then not standing behind them.
 
Is the RT/TX board the small vertical board in the picture?
 
It's a shame that Jammaboard is selling these POS boards and then not standing behind them.

Yep. I refuse to buy from them anymore. I bought one and the 2nd port went out and I had to spend more money to send it back. Get it returned with no sort of refunds for time, and S&H. Only to have the port to go out on me again right away. I will not buy anything from them anymore.

Good thing Zenomorph has helped us all out because so many people would have been shit out of luck on these things.
 
I wanna say the last thing I bought from them was a pair of CPS2 batteries, and even I've heard some bad shit about those being DOA. I don't dig on their kick harnesses or JAMMA harnesses at all... found those to all be total shit. fortunately I've amassed a ton of Player 3 and Player 4 harnesses from some auctions and stuff so I have legit Midway kick harnesses at least lol.

I found it kind of full of shit that after all these years they still have yet to stock Tekken harnesses but whatever.

these 6-in-1's have such dodgy quality to begin with, and these are like what a jammaboards exclusive right? why the fuck can't they stand behind this chinese shit or wherever they're from?

I made the -5 and test switch mods on mine, I just haven't found a suitable cabinet arrangement to install all my MKs yet lol
 
I bought a 2-in-1 switcher from Jammaboards.com, it worked fine for a week, then caught fire.

I sent them the pictures and they never responded back.

I did their claim process also, they never responded back to that either.

Jammaboards.com sucks!!!

Jammaboards.com = throwing your money away
 
I bought a 2-in-1 switcher from Jammaboards.com, it worked fine for a week, then caught fire.

I sent them the pictures and they never responded back.

I did their claim process also, they never responded back to that either.

Jammaboards.com sucks!!!

Jammaboards.com = throwing your money away

Fire, WOW

I will have to check mine. Where on the 2 in 1 was the fire?

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I believe that it was the 12v trace that caught fire! It had been working fine all along... One day when I was playing it, I smelled that burnt electronics smell and then -poof- The fire went out immediately since there was nothing to burn.

All my voltages have been correct (practically spot on!)

I replaced it with another 2-in-1 (NOT FROM JAMMABOARDS.COM) and it has been fine ever since.

The thing that ticked me off even more than the board catching fire was that nobody from Jammaboards.com EVER contacted me about the defective board - they totally ignored me, no concern whatsoever. They just don't give a cr@p!
 

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I wanna say the last thing I bought from them was a pair of CPS2 batteries, and even I've heard some bad shit about those being DOA. I don't dig on their kick harnesses or JAMMA harnesses at all... found those to all be total shit. fortunately I've amassed a ton of Player 3 and Player 4 harnesses from some auctions and stuff so I have legit Midway kick harnesses at least lol.

I found it kind of full of shit that after all these years they still have yet to stock Tekken harnesses but whatever.

these 6-in-1's have such dodgy quality to begin with, and these are like what a jammaboards exclusive right? why the fuck can't they stand behind this chinese shit or wherever they're from?

I made the -5 and test switch mods on mine, I just haven't found a suitable cabinet arrangement to install all my MKs yet lol



Well I don't know if they get them from here, but they are available...


http://www.arcademvs.com/ARCADE_ACESSERIOR.htm
 
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