slab42 Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 A friend of mine sent his N2 to pioneer for repairs, and they sent him back a refurbished one, but the problem is the R197 contacts are not there. They look like they have been ground off, and putting solder on there to connect what used to be the contacts does nothing. Any ideas, or possible solutions to this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
installthis06 Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 pictures would be great Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slab42 Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 they would! I know... If it was my unit, I would have pics, but it is not mine. I will call him up, and ask him to take pics... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cntrylvr79 Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 There's a post floaating around here somewhere that details how to bypass an n2 in your condition. Basically what happend is pioneer swapped the n2 mainboard with an n1 for whatever reason. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slab42 Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 I saw that thread, and it is not the same thing. His is still an N2 board, and you can see the contact points are ground down. I will try and get him to post pics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chugumby Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Im the one that owns the unit and the description is as black and white as it gets. Its an N2 with and N2 board and when I removed the sticker to bypass the unit the two pins have been removed, it looks like they have been ground off with a Dremel or something. Is there another way to bypass the unit. It would be the same situation as if someone had melted them off with a soldering gun. Is there a way to fix this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
antonio010 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 I would try to trace the leads that go to the 2 points. Remove the plastic coating over them, by delicately using a wire brush or a razor if you're comfortable. Then solder with a thin wire (30awg). Apply some hot glue for safe measure. Good luck! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
treo650 Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 this happend to one of my avic n2 units (bought on ebay) the previous user messed up on the solder points..and it looks like its been dremel'ed off. what i did was opened up the unit, and did the N1 bypass (the board is identical in the inside as an N2) now my unit is completly bypassed (and upgraded to m70 disc) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jdunphy23 Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 The same exact thing happened to me. The backlight went out and when I brought in into service at PC Richards, they sent it off to Pioneer. Pioneer returned it with a new sticker over the points. When I removed it, not only was the trace I drew on gone, but the points were scraped or dremeled off completly. What specifically is the method that you are talking about that can fix this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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