DIY repairs cleaning etc

Unseul · 26 Oct 2024 at 23:00

drakulton said:
@Unseul I've dismantled a Q2 controller as it had intermittent power issues depending on the length of the AA batteries fitted. My energiser rechargables are 2mm taller than energiser non rechargeables.... who knew.
Anyway, I have the negative terminal battery plunger spring extracted from the battery compartment, but the positive terminal is surrounded by a white floating insulator ring which goes into a tiny compartment at the other end of the battery compartment. Do you have a controller in bits to see how to release the pos terminal?

I'll try and take a look tomorrow or Monday.

If you look on YouTube there's a channel called fix my oculus, I think. They have a load of videos, check the shorts as well, they have a lot of stuff.

drakulton · 26 Oct 2024 at 23:50

Unseul said:
I'll try and take a look tomorrow or Monday.

If you look on YouTube there's a channel called fix my oculus, I think. They have a load of videos, check the shorts as well, they have a lot of stuff.

Thanks, I saw the fix-my-oculus videos but they all seem to stop before battery compartment PCB removal. It looks like the pos plunger is held in by latches but they're inside then tiny end compartment. I'll try and get some images on the USB microscope.

Unseul · 27 Oct 2024 at 09:33

Bit of a amateur repair, but have you tried padding it with some kitchen foil?

drakulton · 27 Oct 2024 at 09:42

Unseul said:
Bit of a amateur repair, but have you tried padding it with some kitchen foil?

Yeah, my brother's been doing that. So while it's in bits I'll-re tension the large negative terminal spring and re-solder the joints and it should be good to go. It seems they made the pos terminal disassembly impossible without destroying it. Half tempted to replace the joysticks with hall effect sticks while it's in dry dock.

Unseul · 27 Oct 2024 at 15:26

drakulton said:
Yeah, my brother's been doing that. So while it's in bits I'll-re tension the large negative terminal spring and re-solder the joints and it should be good to go. It seems they made the pos terminal disassembly impossible without destroying it. Half tempted to replace the joysticks with hall effect sticks while it's in dry dock.

Yeah, I can't see anyway to take it apart. Looks like the terminal is attached through the white bit directly onto the connection. I couldn't manipulate it clear. There's a possibility that you can push the the metal through enough to slip under the plastic ring, but I'm not confident and couldn't do it myself. There's a hint of a clip on the back of the ring too, but again I'm not sure.

I can post photos of what I got to, but by the sounds of it, it's no better than what you'd found anyway.

drakulton · 27 Oct 2024 at 15:42

Unseul said:
Yeah, I can't see anyway to take it apart. Looks like the terminal is attached through the white bit directly onto the connection. I couldn't manipulate it clear. There's a possibility that you can push the the metal through enough to slip under the plastic ring, but I'm not confident and couldn't do it myself. There's a hint of a clip on the back of the ring too, but again I'm not sure.

I can post photos of what I got to, but by the sounds of it, it's no better than what you'd found anyway.

Thanks for taking a look and confirming. I'm getting good and constant continuity between the pos terminal and the board, so I'm hoping stretching the neg terminal spring and reassembling should do the trick with different sized batteries. It seems to be a common problem. The vid shows the issue @ 2:00