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In other news, I got myself a Sensor Watch, tore my hair out for a while after I installed the PCB in what I mistakenly thought was a genuine A158, got a refund and a rude awakening as to the price of genuine 'cheap' Casios these days, paid $30 for an F91, and finally had a play with it.
Realised the button setup in this and every other digital watch I've ever been inside is absolute rubbish, after noticing how useless the tally mode was because you have to look at the screen to confirm a successful button press... Sat on that feeling for a couple of days, until my F91 light spreader turned up.
I was all set to install it, when I thought to myself, you know what this thing needs - clicky blister buttons. I'll get that happening while I have it apart. So I spent a week looking through the optivisor futzing around with superglue and bicarb and the dremel, trying to get the packaging right… Didn't even get around to trying the light spreader, but I thought I finally had it all happening just so after half a dozen attempts.
But when I pressed the right button, sometimes it would go blank and restart… I had a squiz through the loupe, and the wire I had going from the back of the right button to where it touches the clip holding everything together was really close to the end of a component, and was shorting out sometimes. Fixed that, but then then the watch was dead 😩
Dammit! Ordered another one. In the meantime I installed the light spreader in the counterfeit module and popped that in the F91 case. The light spreader is bloody wonderful; I wish I could get one for my DB-380. Looking forward to seeing how rad it makes the Sensor Watch's deeper green & red LED.
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