What causes this??? Every time I touch the track it shocks me. I think it might be playing with the timer too. I know this doesn't happen on Zeeb's track. Using micro switch and micro wizard K2 timer.
electric shock from track???
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Do you have static electricity?
most timers and starters are low voltage dc which would not shock.
Try changinging your shoes. edit: static electricity
most timers and starters are low voltage dc which would not shock.
Try changinging your shoes. edit: static electricity
Ok, just took off my shoes and retested multiple times. Guess what NO SHOCK !!! Sometimes it the easiest solution. Feel like an idiot, but everybody has those moment's. Thx buddy!!
In the EARLY days of Arati, they were getting about a 90% failure rate out in the field with the game cartridges. The testing in-house could not figure out what was going on. One of the engineers took the latest super tested 10 times cartridges home for his kids to play with while he watched. They had two different systems set up in the same room. After playing for a bit, they said-"Hey, let's trade" and they shot the metal sleeve cartridges across the rug at high speed to each other. BINGO- both shorted out when picked up again. Atari had to redesign the IC chips to stand up to way more than military specs to survive 10 year olds.
That's a cool story about the Atari. I never had one, but loved playing whenever I had the chance.
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ESD (Electro Static Discharge) can be ten of thousands of volts. It can annihilate circuits and start fire at the gas station. lol
Brian, as I started to read this post the first thing that came to mind was static electricity as IAE suggested and it turned out to be your solution.
Glad it was as simple as that.
Did you get a track?
Glad it was as simple as that.
Did you get a track?
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