Hi all, a greek guy here.. bought my first BB, an sxk purple DNA40 2nd hand a couple of weeks back, loved it and bought the DNA60 version brand new from provapes
I have read the entire original 'clone vs authentic' / GB thread in case anyone has faced a problem with one of the control +/- buttons on his SXK BB before, but nope! So as I was inching my way to the end, I see this continuation thread for all things BB... And seeing a good company of straight-up ppl I thought I might venture here for a solution or any ideas.
So here it comes:
Problem is the watts-UP/right button in the dna40 BB does not function properly. Meaning, I can use up/right and down/left buttons to increase or decrease the wattage, but after a while (within minutes), the up button activates on its own without being pressed and wattage goes to the full 40 watts.
Then, if I press it once it gets unstuck and I can set my wattage, no problem, but after a while it again activates on its own and of course goes to 40W once more... (I captured this behaviour on the attached video)
I am pretty sure the up button (the actuator I think it is called?) is busted and I will probably have to replace the mini-button controller board shown on the photo. It is separate from the DNA board and it is hooked to it via 3 thin wires just under the screen face plate, so it is an straight job if one has a replacement mini board...
For the moment, I have:
(a) posted the video and described the problem on youtube ...
...in case some help comes from there and
(b) been in communication with Nastya@sxk with details of the problem, trying to get at least one +/- control button mini board replacement. Since I got it second hand I do not expect warranty or anything of the kind, I am offering to pay, after all it should be cheep, no intelligence on this mini board at all, it is just offers remote control +- functionality to the main dna40 board on the other side of the mod
Since neither (a) or (b) has paid off yet (option b is really a slow back and forth, don't know why since I am asking to buy, and not free stuff), I am exploring if any technically-savvy folk here can suggest a place to get such a small actuator I will be able to replace the busted one myself, I have handled an iron successfully in electronic components when needed in the past.
I could use one of the +/- button actuators from a busted istick-50w (remember those?) but it has much higher vertical relief than the original actuator on the bb mini board.
Any - really any - ideas welcome!
Cheers and thanks for listening!