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Topic: Help needed: shorted the PCB of my Leapfrog Creatr HS

Hello to you all,

First of all, I wish you a happy new year. May 2019 be a fruitful year for you all.

Now my issue. I have been trying to establish a connection between my pc and my Leapfrog Creatr HS. To do so, I bought an adapter. After installing this adapter, I was doing some adjustments on the configuration here and there. But here’s the thing, I forgot to cut the power. The Leapfrog motor driver PCB slipped from my hands, touched a metal bracket and shorted the pins underneath one of the USB ports (see attached picture of USB port and PCB). Fml. I cut the power and left it for a bit. Now, when the device is on, the interface is unresponsive of the rotary menu navigation button. Next to that, the interface randomly ‘scrolls’ through the menu, as can be seen in this video: https://youtu.be/iOOoQGFQyxM.

My hopes are on you on this screw up of mine.

I am quite the rookie when it comes to the hardware of 3D printers. And the community behind the Leapfrog Creatr HS printer is not really extensive, to say the least. So I hope there are some folks here on this forum that have sufficient know-how to help me on this problem.

My questions to you:
Evidently, my story does sound like it’s a hardware issue. Though, could it be a software issue too? Do you know from my explanation what might cause the strange interface behaviour? If not, where and how should I start debugging?

Hope to hear from you, and hope you all have/had a nice and safe New Years Eve!

Thomas

Photo of USB port and PCB https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHgmRN … p=drivesdk

2 Reply by Kronikabuse

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Re: Help needed: shorted the PCB of my Leapfrog Creatr HS

probably blew a component when it shorted. Can you get  a new board from leapfrog?

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Re: Help needed: shorted the PCB of my Leapfrog Creatr HS

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like it indeed, though the strange thing is that the shield that was shorted is the motor driver PCB. How could that have affected the described malfunctions in the interface?

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Re: Help needed: shorted the PCB of my Leapfrog Creatr HS

I had a similar issue I was straitening  a pin IIRC for an end stop on a ramps board . i had one source of power disconnected but not the other. shorted the pin blew the board.
fortunately I had a spare I paid $10 for.
I agree with kronikabuse  sound like something shorted and a component has blown.
Should not be that difficult to establish a connection between a printer and a computer that you need to have the board out.

It appears leapfrog has a good  support page  you should probably contact them.

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