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Light Tablet repair advice?
9 months ago
Hello all you tech-savvy and highly creative persons.
I have a AGPtEK light tablet and it has given me about ten years of good service and has "Outlived" two power cable replacements. Recently I found out my pet cat chewed through the wire on the recent power cable, so i bought a new, longer cable. Much to my dismay, the tablet wouldn't light up, and so I suspected the new cable might have been faulty. As I jiggled the cable around, the tablet started blinking. I believe it wasn't the cable that was at fault, but it was the socket. The plug wiggles around quite loosely in the receptacle, and currently I have to tape the cable to the tablet where it puts slight upward pressure on the socket. It works, but unfortunately, the lights wink out if I "Thump" the tablet as I'm erasing, or if I accidentally move the tablet or the cable.
It's pretty annoying.
I have considered using contact paste, you know? the stuff they put IC into sockets with, but I can't see any way to open the tablet up to replace the socket. I see online that a replacement can be bought online for a little over $50.00, but I believe why toss something away when it still works? Any suggestions on how to repair this valuable piece of artistic equipment would be greatly appreciated.
"Peace."
I have a AGPtEK light tablet and it has given me about ten years of good service and has "Outlived" two power cable replacements. Recently I found out my pet cat chewed through the wire on the recent power cable, so i bought a new, longer cable. Much to my dismay, the tablet wouldn't light up, and so I suspected the new cable might have been faulty. As I jiggled the cable around, the tablet started blinking. I believe it wasn't the cable that was at fault, but it was the socket. The plug wiggles around quite loosely in the receptacle, and currently I have to tape the cable to the tablet where it puts slight upward pressure on the socket. It works, but unfortunately, the lights wink out if I "Thump" the tablet as I'm erasing, or if I accidentally move the tablet or the cable.
It's pretty annoying.
I have considered using contact paste, you know? the stuff they put IC into sockets with, but I can't see any way to open the tablet up to replace the socket. I see online that a replacement can be bought online for a little over $50.00, but I believe why toss something away when it still works? Any suggestions on how to repair this valuable piece of artistic equipment would be greatly appreciated.
"Peace."
https://www.amazon.com/USB-Power-Ca...../dp/B01J7S9LPU
i.e. just a flat light table for tracing work, not a "tablet" as in a tablet PC or an iPad.
This starts to get into what your time is worth, and how competent you feel with trying to fix something like this yourself. Paying someone else to fix it isn't going to be worth it, considering what you can pick one up for.
By "socket" I assume you mean the interface where the power cable plugs in from the wall (at first I thought you meant a light socket).
This extra information will help diagnose this issue.