Fixing a metal pad (TX-6000)

Bemani Dog · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Orlando, FL

I've had my TX-6000 pad for three months, but I've only really played it for the past several days. Today, my up arrow just started going bad. Now it's not registering anything.

I know you can do some level of disassembly on the pads. Is there any way I can fix it? I really don't want to think that I wasted over $200 for this pad.
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Marq(uistadorous) · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: Arvada, CO

It's probably a broken connection. Take off the up panel and then check all the wires leading to the circuit board thing under the arrow. If that looks 100% perfect (which I don't think it will) then it's probably your control box.

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Bemani Dog · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Orlando, FL

Do I have to pull the sensor up from the wood to check it?
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Marq(uistadorous) · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: Arvada, CO

Umm... I'm not exactly sure what the tx6000 sensor looks like, but if it is like my pos tx1000, then the sensor sould be on a thin black foam thing. If it is just kinda lift up the foam and you can see wires going into a hole

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matt_magnone · Trick Member Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Location: Ambridge, PA

I was playing just now and my up arrow is starting to go on the blink. You cant get to any wires except for a few. There is a ton of foam and a metal thing that is glued to the wood. can barely get to any wires. i am so upset... what good are arrow replacements if they dont fix the fricken thing?
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Marq(uistadorous) · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: Arvada, CO

Hmmm... Yeah, the newer tx's are very hard to dig into. it might be your control box, but I honestly think it's a broken connection

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Bemani Dog · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Orlando, FL

It's the sensor. My dad and I took a look at it, and we could bypass it with one of the washers, but we couldn't get the sensor itself to work anymore.

Just what is that sensor called?
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Bemani Dog · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Orlando, FL

Does anyone have the faintest idea WHAT this is, and where I can get one? It is the sensor in the TX4000/6000 metal dance pad.
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kahuna · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2005

That's the copper grid portion of the sensor. Your probably do not need a new one, as the electrical contact is made when the metal part under the 2 arrows touches the grid and completes the electrical connection.

From your picture, the grid does not look worn out at all. I'd put my money on a broken wire somewhere and/or a bad solder connection from the wire to the grid.
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Bemani Dog · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Orlando, FL

Okay, I just wanted to get some input here.

We resoldered the sensor plate in. Now it doesn't work normally. BUT... if I touch the edge metal of the pad with one hand and then touch the sensor, it works. I also noticed that the X and O pads don't work now (down, left and right still work).

Could this be endemic of a control box problem? I have ordered one just in case.
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