Isolating the RoboteQ's case

**jim** · 30th November 2004, 22:25

I expect many of you know this, but I only recently noticed that the RoboteQ AX2550 has its casing connected to its negative battery input. This was making my whole chassis negative earth which was a little dangerous.

I posted a message about this on RoboteQs forum and it turns out its very easy to fix it so that the case is isolated. You can view the thread at:
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/roboteq/vpost?id=35 http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...eq/vpost?id=35

Ive just done this on my RoboteQ and it works, although you have to take a little care with the 15-pin connector especially if (like I was until now) youre using a custom lead with a metal hood on the 15-pin plug.

I dont know if this will affect the warranty, it might be worth checking with them if youre worried about it.

**m2xt** · 1st December 2004, 08:41

Jim

This was identified many months ago and an Email sent to all users who had purchased their Roboteqs from Technobots advising of the remedial action. Contact me if you want adding to the user list.

Paul

**m2xt** · 1st December 2004, 08:48

Jim, just checked and you are already on the list, the Email was sent to you on 1st July.

Paul

**jim** · 1st December 2004, 09:46

So you did... two copies of it in fact, its just that I get so much spam that I never see any email unless Im expecting it these days.

**terryc** · 3rd December 2004, 16:59

Try the Thunderbird email client http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/
One of the reasons I switched was to get an effective spam filter.

**jim** · 5th December 2004, 21:50

Thats good advice, Terry - Ive actually been using Thunderbird for quite a while, and its spam filter is getting pretty accurate. I still dont quite trust it to delete any mail in case I miss something - although my strategy is not perfect either as you can see.

**terryc** · 6th December 2004, 09:15

Out of 151 emails this morning 4 were real/correct, it missed 3 spams and got the rest correct. Im really impressed. I set up a junk folder that it moves the spams to so that I can check. Ill give it another month before Im confident enough to move it straight to trash.

**aliboy** · 6th December 2004, 19:43

Or have you heard of this thing called Lycos you download a screensaver and it takes all the spam information of the computer and sends the spam back to the spammer!