My garage opener's remote has been dropped many, many times throughout its long history ... and every time that's happened it split into three pieces: the pcb, and its two plastic lids...
Well, it seems that I've dropped the darned thing for its last and final time ... when I put it back together, it stopped working and now the garage door won't open anymore unless I manually press one of the buttons at the motor's unit. Even when the tiny LED light blinks when the proper button is pressed, the motor does not detect the signal and fails to open
I've closely inspected the circuit and there seem to be no dry contacts nor broken traces in it. What's more, I heated my soldering iron and pressed it against every pin in every component to make sure that effective contact is being made in every node.
Question, is it possible that the device's crystal was damaged somehow by the impact? Because that's the only possibility that I can think of for it to have stopped working the way it did.
NOTE: The other side of the board contains only its cr2032 battery, which is brand new btw.
Well, it seems that I've dropped the darned thing for its last and final time ... when I put it back together, it stopped working and now the garage door won't open anymore unless I manually press one of the buttons at the motor's unit. Even when the tiny LED light blinks when the proper button is pressed, the motor does not detect the signal and fails to open
I've closely inspected the circuit and there seem to be no dry contacts nor broken traces in it. What's more, I heated my soldering iron and pressed it against every pin in every component to make sure that effective contact is being made in every node.
Question, is it possible that the device's crystal was damaged somehow by the impact? Because that's the only possibility that I can think of for it to have stopped working the way it did.
NOTE: The other side of the board contains only its cr2032 battery, which is brand new btw.