Yeah they seem honest to me. They only charged me $55 for a diagnostic fee and $10 shipping back to me. I'm pretty sure he said they re-capped it too and it should work fine if I can find a replacement flyback.
Maintenance hatch brutha. Done it myself.
I've said before it would be handy even for them to say how the flybacks have failed or which winding is shorted or whatever (assuming they are actually testing the flybacks and ringing them out and not just getting stuck then saying "dead fly"). I haven't really looked at mine too closely yet but if there is a common problem would be good to pay attention to it.
I did ask for more information when I was on the phone with them and the guy on the phone checked with the tech, he said it was shorted internally and they don't take on rebuilding flybacks. They were pretty humble and said it just isn't something they can handle.
I was going to commission @Lemony Vengeance to see if would do full wire harnesses.
hmmmmm.. lemme think about this. I can duplicate mine.
Wash it. Take it out, let it sit in some warm water and Simple Green, hose it down and leave it out to dry.
I would be using a standard blue 56 pin edge connector and all required pins would be populated. the Hirose edge connectors we all know and love are no longer manufactured, and Sanwa knows this. They're selling them for $8 a pop + shipping on Rakuten :/
They had a tray of brand new CR7E 56DA connectors at JAEPO that sold quickly.
I'm quite surprised they said flyback couldn't be repaired. How hard is it to rewind a flyback transformer? I've done all sorts of rewinding before on electrical motors, transformers and all kinds of coils. There was only 2 factors to be considered: gauge and number of windings.
