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DarkCore
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1360. PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AA Bob wrote:
Thanks for the offer, but I don't know how effective that would be. If it's a wiring problem (which I'm guessing it is), it would be pretty hard to tell what's going on without actually playing on it.

One simple thing you could check for, though, is the condition of the wires. Maybe CF switched to a new type of wire with a coating that strips/splits easily.
I haven't actually thoroughly checked the whole wire because other than the part of it visable from taking off the arrow panel(s), I don't know where it actually leads. My wires were a little bit dirty, but I just wiped off the dirt and put the panel back on. They didn't look stripped or anything.

Oh, and by the way are all Cobalt Fluxes supposed to be 100% completely flat? Becuase my center panel seems to be a bit higher up than my arrows.
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Test post. (Getting the posts back to normal.)
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DarkCore wrote:
Test post. (Getting the posts back to normal.)

what?
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revenGmyass wrote:
DarkCore wrote:
Test post. (Getting the posts back to normal.)

what?


the forums have been broken lately, now fixed i think. E19.gif
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Yes, the new posts were not visable unless you screwed around with the HTML or you viewed them in the topic reveiw. The threads that were like this show the posts now; someone just needs to post.
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I have that same problem, how did you fix yours??? Because it is messed on my user.
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Mclachlan wrote:
I have that same problem, how did you fix yours??? Because it is messed on my user.
It's fixed now. The new posts are all visable and they will now increase your post count...unless you meant something else.
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How do you guys move your flux around (it's really heavy!)? I've been lifting one side of it and then dragging it across the carpet. Is this bad for the pad?
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How do you guys move your flux around (it's really heavy!)? I've been lifting one side of it and then dragging it across the carpet. Is this bad for the pad?
If you're moving it a few inches to a foot, i don't see why there would be a problem, however, it can't be good to, say, drag it 100 feet.
As long as you don't drop it, nothing should happen. (although i'm not a flux owner, so i'm not really sure, i'm just assuming)
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mfillescasabc wrote:
How do you guys move your flux around (it's really heavy!)? I've been lifting one side of it and then dragging it across the carpet. Is this bad for the pad?
Uh...I tip it up onto the side, grab the sides and walk with it. I've been up and down my stairs with it a few times.
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Fellow CF owner of a few years here.
I'm not sure if this is what DarkCore is getting at, but turn it up on its side so that it's completely flat up and down, tilt it about 45 degrees sideways so that it's in a diamond-type shape, and then hold the slanted edges with your left and right hands, keeping the CF looking like a diamond while you're carrying it. Depending on your height, you may have to be careful of that top diamond point poking you in the neck or somewhere crappy as such.
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mfillescasabc wrote:
How do you guys move your flux around (it's really heavy!)? I've been lifting one side of it and then dragging it across the carpet. Is this bad for the pad?
Bad for the pad?
No.
Hell for the carpet. E15.gif

Anyway, the best way to move something that weighs 80 pounds, has no handles, and is a 33" square flat piece of steel and lexan, is to put on GLOVES (they have sharp corners too, although you've probably already noticed), and grab it by the sides, then penguin shuffle.

If you're moving long distances with it, hold it over your head and use your neck and arms to hold it.
This isn't recommended for going more than, say, 2000 feet.
If you want to go on a hike with it (so you can play it in the forest, I guess?), you can cup your hands behind you and lean it on your back, and that should be fine, as long as you keep your posture just right.
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I think Dancing Tofu may be right about getting new Fluxes to respond - beat the shit out of it. I took my pad to a friend's house on Thursday, and 3 of my buddies pounded on it with shoes for about 4 hours straight.

Today, I AAA'd something for the first time in a month and passed a new 11 and a new 12.

Moral of the story = beat the hell out of your pad ;>.
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Discoman wrote:
Fellow CF owner of a few years here.
I'm not sure if this is what DarkCore is getting at, but turn it up on its side so that it's completely flat up and down, tilt it about 45 degrees sideways so that it's in a diamond-type shape, and then hold the slanted edges with your left and right hands, keeping the CF looking like a diamond while you're carrying it. Depending on your height, you may have to be careful of that top diamond point poking you in the neck or somewhere crappy as such.
Actually what I meant was just tip it up so it's completely vertical, and grip the left and right sides of it and just walk. Then again I don't find Cobalt Fluxes very heavy at all so this probably wasn't very helpful at all. I understand what you're saying though, and that's probably the best idea.
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DancingTofu wrote:
Anyway, the best way to move something that weighs 80 pounds...


Last I checked, CFs weighed about 40-45 lbs; unless they put some dark matter in that lexan, it shouldn't be a whole lot more.

Also, DarkCore: Long treks between the car and DDR club meetings back at college meant you had to figure something out; usually it involved me carrying the CF and a plywood-modded cheap-o pad or two stacked and diamond-shaped as such. But then, I'd just lift it over my head usually.
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ok so i posted something similar on the cobalt-flux site, but maybe i'll get a better response here:

i've had my pad for about a month now and have the trio linker plus adapter. Just today i went to play on it, and it doesn't register anything from the pad. I've tested the adapter on a crap soft pad and it picked it up fine. So i move down the line to the cbox. I don't have the pad attached right now, and itg automaps, so im guessing that if the cbox were working that i could press the start/select buttons, but they don't work. Am i right to assume that the cbox doesn't work because of this, or does the pad need to be working for the cbox to register as well?

now, assuming it is the cbox that is malfunctioning, what should i do to fix it? should i attempt to take the screws out and check it out? or try to get a replacement one from the company?
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Yea, sounds like the cbox, i'd just send an email to [email protected] and explain to them what you did and the issue and i'm sure they'll take care of you.
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I have had the same cobalt flux for 2 years now.

No problems.

Same control box as it came with.

Very slightly scuffed plexiglass.

Never had to "fix" it or call in for help.

I play with and without shoes on some crazy hard songs.

Friends come over and play in their shoes too. No problems.

Pretty much I consider it $300 well spent. And that's not something I say lightly.
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Discoman wrote:
DancingTofu wrote:
Anyway, the best way to move something that weighs 80 pounds...


Last I checked, CFs weighed about 40-45 lbs; unless they put some dark matter in that lexan, it shouldn't be a whole lot more.
Oh.
Okay, you'd probably know a lot better than I would; I've only ever lifted one to scoot it away from the TV at Kumoricon, and I noticed that it felt way heavier than my pads, which are about 30 lbs each.
I guess I knew that they probably didn't weigh 80 pounds, so I was just BSing, my bad. E15.gif
I tend to exaggerate a lot.
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Ok, I ordered my CF ~1.5 year agoin August(2005) and I've been AAAing 7-8 footers and passing 10 footers. Recently, I bought a trio linker to play on Stepmania and it worked fine but two weeks ago, I noticed some problems. Sometimes when I'm playing, my arrows don't respond like the pad/cbox froze (all 4 buttons freeze for a few seconds). That means that no matter how hard or light I step on the button, nothing happens and I get misses. Also, sometimes I get a random greats because the pad lags (even on simple 7 footers which i usually AAA with eaze). I know it lags and it's not me because its pretty obvious since I'm getting lots of marvellous in a row and a random great on the same beat.

I've tried cleaning the pad but no difference. I was thinking it was the control box(hopefully I dont have to buy a new pad) because it freezes on my stepmania AND ps2 only since recently. Any sugesstions of the problem? I've already tried tightening the screws and adjusting them but no luck. btw, I posted on the cf forum and I'm not getting any responses.
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