Hi,
I have three Squeezebox devices, a UE Smart Radio, an older Squeezebox Radio and a Squeezebox Touch. To my dismay, the newest of the three, the UE Smart Radio packed in completely. No display, no sound (not even a little 'click' in the speaker when you connect it to a power source), no nothing! Given that there is no official support for the hardware anymore, I had a bit of a go at it, trying to figure out what's wrong. My first guess was the power adapter and/or battery, but both seem to work fine as far as I can tell/measure (reasonable voltage across the terminals). However, after taking the radio completely apart, I could not find any voltage at any of the various components soldered to the PCB, so I still suspect that the fault is rather basic and has something to do with the power circuitry. Is there any documentation for the PCB or experience with this kind of fault? So far I have mainly tried to compare the (working) Squeezebox Radio with the broken UE Smart Radio (without breaking the former). I always thought the hardware is practically identical and was surprised to find a few differences. In my Squeezebox Radio the rechargeable battery is plugged directly into a socket on the PCB. For the UE Smart Radio, it is plugged into a connector on the inside of the battery cover, from where a cable leads on to the PCB. I opened the little connector box just to find that it contains no active components, just a small PCB connecting the input socket to the output cable?! All connectors have the same shape (i.e. you can bypass the connector box) and the batteries also look exactly the same. In fact, despite the fact that I bought the UE Radio more than a year later, the batteries are dated only a few month apart (or even the same?)! Any idea what has changed here and why? What I also found surprising is that the "new" battery does not seem to work in the old radio and vice versa. Something must have changed in the supply circuitry - or the battery and radio gave up at the same time! Anyhow, I would appreciate any insight into how to revive a dead UE Smart Radio. The other two feel lonely ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mucbox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68412 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109423 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
