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Nickthedentist · 8th May 2019, 7:52 am

Thanks for an interesting write-up from me too.

I have one, fished out of the WEE bin at Sainsbury's a few years ago. This was suffering from a broken on/off switch, the plastic bits linking the button to the tact switch having fractured. I repaired it with a small salvaged panel-mount momentary switch Araldited into the hole where the button originally sat, linked to the PCB with short insulated wires.

My parents use it every day and it's never let them down. I power it from an ex-camcorder PSU (the original couldn't be retrieved!) but my parents insist on switching it off at the wall, which probably accounts for the regulator not giving up the ghost.

N.

8th May 2019, 7:52 am	#6
Nickthedentist Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oxford, UK. Posts: 17,846	Re: Panasonic RF-D1 Thanks for an interesting write-up from me too. I have one, fished out of the WEE bin at Sainsbury's a few years ago. This was suffering from a broken on/off switch, the plastic bits linking the button to the tact switch having fractured. I repaired it with a small salvaged panel-mount momentary switch Araldited into the hole where the button originally sat, linked to the PCB with short insulated wires. My parents use it every day and it's never let them down. I power it from an ex-camcorder PSU (the original couldn't be retrieved!) but my parents insist on switching it off at the wall, which probably accounts for the regulator not giving up the ghost. N.