Quark fried, blown capacitor...

[wallot]

Originally Posted by AAngel

I also heard from MGM and they said that they got my Compro just yesterday. I sent it via Global Priority, but it took over three weeks to get there.

Thats thanks to our wonderfull customs. Unless it's Global Express (EMS) that leaves customs in few hours most of the time, it can take them 2-4 weeks to process it. I went to customs ONCE for my package and there is always just one guy and he needs about 15minutes per person. Never again so i rather wait fot them to process it. (week ago got stuff ordered from TH that left on May 12th and still waiting for stuff that left on 9th)

Will get tomorrow Nippon Chemi-Con LXZ (best I could find around europe actually) series 470uF caps so will see how it will help.

OK, a couple of you guys are going to be upset. I gave a few packages to my secretary to mail out. Unfortunately, she unknowingly dropped them in the outgoing box without the customs forms, so I got them back. I am leaving for lunch in about an hour and will go to the post office myself and take care of this. I'll be shipping by Global Priority, so it won't take too long, although it's already been long enough.

Sorry.

[suicideneil]

Secretaries..... who needs 'em eh?

Oh, I don't know what I'd do without mine, but there are just some things...

Oddly enough, she's never had to ship anything out of the country before. LOL.

[zeropointbug]

"(heat batteries more like it)" :005: I like that.

Well, if it's past warranty for you then I will gladly take it from your hands. Let's just make sure it's shipped the cheapest economy mail.

AAngel: What is the new controller coming out? The plasma, or the rumored 'Quark 125C' ? I sure hope I don't have a faulty one again, as this one does not seem to be soldered in a friendly manner, literally.

Bummer about the caps, oh well, until I get them, I have some solid polymer ultra low ESR 470uF/10v caps from a VC card that died on me. I will use two in series for now, they should work very well, and not blow out on me.

Wallot: Let us know what your experiences are with those caps will you? Also, the heatsink you have on your Quark, that looks VERY similar to my Arctic cooling Silencer heatsink I was going to use but ran out of room...

[wallot]

DOnt worry will let u know :0

It is artic cooling silencer :) or better said was :)

[zeropointbug]

Sweet

And on a not so sweet note... I wired up my new Quark, all ready to go. To my most annoyed surprise, it COGS, cogs like MAD! I am totally confused, I have a large 10,000uF 25v cap (temporary). It will only start spinning when I give it about 50% throttle or above, even then, the motor sounds like it is not running right.

When I turn the Quark on, it does it's CHIME start-up, but it's very quiet, not near as loud as it was before my last one quite.

My gut feels so bad right now, waiting so long for something that I paid a lot for, and for it to do be another 'piece'.

S&T, what is going on? :032:

[zeropointbug]

WELL , LA De DA! Just my luck!

QUARK FRIED AGAIN!

:035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035:

The thing turned into a FOG machine, there was smoke poring out of it and laying along my table.

I seriously don't want to wait another month, only to have another Quark blow up. :018: See that face, that's not a happy face! :036:

[silentbob343]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

WELL , LA De DA! Just my luck!

QUARK FRIED AGAIN!

:035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035: :035:

The thing turned into a FOG machine, there was smoke poring out of it and laying along my table.

I seriously don't want to wait another month, only to have another Quark blow up. :018: See that face, that's not a happy face! :036:

Man, that's what happened to my second 33A. Doing full throttle run, let up and it stopped with white smoke pouring out of the controller. Heatsink was HOT. My first controller was good except the programming button broke off and I can't fix it with the non removable plastic case they use.

Hopefully the replacement, 3rd controller, will last.

[BrianG]

Wow, that sucks. It looks like those FETs really went out with a bang! Did you do the internal mod to that one too?

[zeropointbug]

No, I didn't do anything to it. I think one of the FET's was maybe faulty, and then it blew, and caused a chain reaction, wow. The whole room absolutely wreaks of burnt FET. :036: It was cursed from the beginning.

I'll see if I can just give S&T a pic of this one and they send me new one?

[BrianG]

Yeah, it does sound like something was bad from the get-go.

Good luck with getting S&T to simply send you a new one!

[zeropointbug]

I'm THIS close to buying a Mamba Max, you know for the mean time between when each of the Quark failures. :025:

You try and prevent one thing that happened to you, then you get a kick between the legs with another problem.

What the hell is with all these Quarks blowing up! I feel for all you guys, I really do! I mean, do they have 2yr olds making these or something?!?! I'm afraid to run mine now; I already smoked it once!

Bye:018:

Zeropointbug, your are so bad luck.