{"id":1103,"date":"2012-10-18T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2012-10-18T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:08:57","slug":"quick-flip-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Quick Flip Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend at the <a title=\"Ottawa Pinball and Gameroom Show \u201912\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=1082\">Ottawa Pinball and Gameroom Show &#8217;12<\/a>, I came home to find that one of my <a title=\"Modifying a Flip Video UltraHD to Add Charging Capabilities\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=1062\">Flip HD video cameras<\/a> had stopped powering on. It functioned without problem when connected to the computer to copy the videos from it, but it would not turn on to record.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I finally decided to open it up and figure out the cause. I suspected perhaps the power switch was bad, since it didn&#8217;t seem to be a major system failure. When I opened it up, the problem was as clear as day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Far.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1104\" title=\"Far\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Far-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Far-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Far-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Far.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, something isn&#8217;t sitting quite right. One of the diodes became un-soldered, perhaps due to a shock, causing an already cracked solder joint to completely give up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Near.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1105\" title=\"Near\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Near-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Near-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Near.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simple enough to fix, a quick test with a multimeter, two points of solder, and everything was back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>You never know if a task will be easy or difficult without first taking a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend at the Ottawa Pinball and Gameroom Show &#8217;12, I came home to find that one of my Flip HD video cameras had stopped powering on. It functioned without problem when connected to the computer to copy the videos from it, but it would not turn on to record. Today, I finally decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,267],"tags":[270,272,262,102,271],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-projects","category-video-projects","tag-camera","tag-fix","tag-flip","tag-repair","tag-solder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}