Electron in Store in U.K

[mitpat]

does anyone know of any electronic stores in the u.k that sell things like L.E.Ds, soldering irons etc

Preferably by internet order though it does't have to be

i only know of maplin.co.uk but they don't have the red leds that i want

 

[badassbiker900]

there are loads of places in the uk that sell parts, in plymouth I use brewsters and radioparts, but it is easy to set up an account with RS components... next day delivery no probs etc, then there was Farnell, dont know if still about but was like RS. then there ar the surplus electronics places that buy up and sell components, get an electronics hobbyist magazine and trawl the classifieds.

Hope this helps

BB900

 

[Mad-Man-666]

im from the US but the best place ive found for getting LEDs is ebay. there are alot of sellers from Hong Kong on there. you can get a pack of 50 LEDs for about $5usd

 

[Jango]

rapid eletronic used that in school :-D

 

[VOYAGERXP]

Maplin Electronics has over 90 stores, 12,000 products and 30 years in business!


http://www.maplin.co.uk/

 

[theguy]

rapid eletronic used that in school :-D

hehe ditto

 

[noomski]

Maplins for soldering iron.

www.lsdiodes.com for led's,

Lsdiodes:

Best quality and range i have ever seen and last time i used them they shipped anywhere in the world for 75 cents.

I'm from the U.K. and found everything to arrived perfectly in a tiny jiffy bag, and a free sticker!

Beat that!

 

[carlostxo]

Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon. HELP

Having the old 1.61 firmware on my liteon on i decided to update when the lt firmware was released. i had the ck3 lite chip/probe powering the drive. It was outside of the 360 as soon as i plugged the dvd drive in the cables connecting the two melted and smoked, i removed as soon as possible. but now the drive will not turn on, spin cd's, or open. I've had a few people tell me it was the power cords ends being reversed but i'm always very carefull each time pluggin them in or removing. Can anyone explain to me what needs to be done to recover the key off my dvd drive so i can order a new liteon to replace this broken one?????????

 

[ReMix]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

you probably need to remove the flash chip

similar to when people brick hitachis

but i am not 100% on this

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

Any tutorials like this for a lite-on drive??

 

[karlosfandango]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

I would have to agree with the others. If you dont know, what causes wires to melt is when you have a power wire and a ground in contact with each other, this turns red-hot immediately. The most likely cause of this is you had something plugged in backwards. I couldnt really see anything else causing this, unless your house has strange wiring to the outlet you were using.

My guess is, you made a mistake. Its ok. It happens. But you also most likely fried your drive and the ck3 chipset. If you have fried something on your lite-on, you arent going to find an easy fix to removing the key. Atleast not that I know of. You shud just go buy a new xbox for $200, and consider a lesson in double-checking anything like this in the future.

Sorry for your trouble, good luck.

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

I understand the concept. I am a journeyman electrician, the wiring in my house is fine. I have a very nice hakko soldering gun ive heard of ways of being able to do it like http://www.boxxdr.com/lohack.html. But i need someone who has done it to explain it to me

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

http://www.boxxdr.com/lohack.html

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

Anyone??????

 

[ReMix]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

ask someone like mightywiz, who has a programmer that could ready the removed flash chip

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

Ok how do i directly find him on here?

 

[ReMix]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

http://360mods.net/index.php?name=Your_Account&profile=14017

i just looked through a couple forums until i found his name
i wish they had a members search function here

 

[carlostxo]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

Who here has the capability of retrieving my dvd key off my lite-on drive??? Price??

 

[Lucky4me]

Re: Power cord melted when flashing to new lt on my liteon.

you dont have your dvd key from the old flash