{"id":55,"date":"2009-11-01T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:14:41","slug":"all-is-not-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/all-is-not-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"All is not lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encoders not quite as bad as I originally thought.\u00a0 I decided if I could remove the circuit board, I could fix the solder beads on the back of the board and reassemble everything safely.\u00a0 Started by scraping off all the glue around the edge of the circuit boards.\u00a0 After a little trial and error with the original non-functioning encoder (and shattering the glass disk on it), I figured out how to pop out the circuit board.\u00a0 Cleaned up the solder on the back of the boards and reassembled everything.\u00a0 One encoder works fine now &#8211; it has good signals and turns smoothly.\u00a0 The other encoder still doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 It turns out that when I popped out the circuit board, I accidentally yanked one of the wires off the LED which is at the bottom of a deep, dark hole with a lens above it.\u00a0 No way to possibly reattach that wire.\u00a0 At least now I only need to buy one replacement encoder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encoders not quite as bad as I originally thought.\u00a0 I decided if I could remove the circuit board, I could fix the solder beads on the back of the board and reassemble everything safely.\u00a0 Started by scraping off all the glue around the edge of the circuit boards.\u00a0 After a little trial and error with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}