I've had my unit for a couple of weeks and has been plugged/unplugged no
more than 20 times.  Hence my degree of frustration.  I took mine apart last
night and also noticed however that I have one of the older units with the
Cypress chip in it.  Completely different looking than the pic posted
earlier.  So I'm going to try and get ahold of Microchip and see if they
will exchange it.


On 10/26/06, Pearce, AB (Alan) <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >Pearce, AB (Alan) wrote:
> >> It seems to me that these connectors are not made for regular mates
> and
> >> demates. They are designed for a small number of uses, such as they
> >> would normally get when used in telephony service.
> >
> >But how often do you change cables on the ICD2 itself?  The target end
> of
> >the cable gets a lot of use, but the ICD2 end?  I try to avoid giving
> mine
> >any use at all, but when I'm stuck using a ICD2 I rarely plug/unplug
> the
> >cable at the ICD2.
>
> I agree Olin, but the OP sounded like they unplug it often. I may be
> wrong here, but that was the way the posting came across to me.
>
> If they don't then it does sound like unit should get a repair, possibly
> because a substitute connector was used in it.
>
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