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  1. My thoughts are with everyone in Japan

    by , 11-03-2011 at 10:43 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)
    I have been helping my families and friends all day by relaying all sorts of messages in order to share the communication from one person to the others.


    The land line and mobile phone network were too busy that it was impossible to get through to my families and friends through these method.


    However, thanks to the power of internet.


    The email, Skype, twitter, etc were working so once I managed to talk or receive any emails from ...

    Updated 03-10-2012 at 10:49 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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  2. Air Con CCU Board Service 06

    by , 10-03-2011 at 11:39 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    After confirming that there was no short circuit between the GND and IG/BATT pins, connected this CCU board to my Display module and powered it up on my NSX.


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    In the process of Function and Operation check as well as carried out the Self Diag test.



    Note the special display.



    This is the initial page of the Function and Operation check.


    Confirmed ...

    Updated 03-10-2012 at 10:49 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (Changed the image file layout.)

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  3. Air Con CCU Board Service 05

    by , 10-03-2011 at 11:29 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    Started to rebuild so many damaged circuit tracks and pads.


    After more than 10 hours, finally I managed to get to the point where I was happy to power up the board for the first time after receiving it.


    At the end, I used 8 x hard wires, 4 x jumper wires for the rebuilt process, lots and lots of soldering bridges to reinforce the circuit pads against the noise and ripple.


    I have worked on many CCU boards but this one made ...

    Updated 03-10-2012 at 10:50 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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  4. Air Con CCU Board Service 04

    by , 09-03-2011 at 11:40 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)
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    I think this board will hit the new history record for me for the size of the area that I had to scrape off due to acid corrosion.







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    Also, it will require lots and lots of jumper wire, hard wire and soldering bridge to re-create the dissolved circuit.


    Challenge continues….

    Kaz
    ...

    Updated 03-10-2012 at 10:50 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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  5. Air Con CCU Board Service 03

    by , 09-03-2011 at 11:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    So, removed the capacitors and started the inspection and cleaning process.

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    Doesn’t look great at all…..


    After the initial cleaning, it was quite obvious that some of the circuit tracks and pads were already gone/missing by the poor previous work….



    Also, the leakage from the original capacitors were left too long that it dissolved so many tracks.
    ...

    Updated 03-10-2012 at 10:51 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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