Circuit board or flash?

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  • Famousbeer
    Junior Member
    • Oct 2016
    • 19

    #1

    Circuit board or flash?

    I fear my GC2 has crapped out - not reading any shots.
    Is there a way to tell if it's the flash or the circuit board??

    Unit isn't flashing at all when hitting balls. No data showing up.
    (I saw a thread about someone making and selling replacement circuit boards but didn't see any information on diagnostics on determining what the problem with the unit might be...)

    I need my sim back :-(
  • inorkuo
    Advanced Member
    • Sep 2015
    • 344

    #2
    get a new flash from andy. sometimes when the flash starts to go, you will still see a flash but you get a lot of no reads, or missing data. other times, the bulb will completely shatter and in those cases you don't see a flash and the gc2 will just go from green to red with no dashes or any other indication that it tried to read a shot.

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    • brock
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2016
      • 122

      #3
      When mine needed a flash, the screen displayed dashes.

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      • andygg1986
        Super Member
        • Jan 2016
        • 627

        #4
        The bulbs will get a film of metal particles from the electrodes on the inside after a while. If the film blocks enough light then you will get dashes because the camera cannot adequately image the ball. If the trigger coil fails or the bulb breaks there will be no flash and it will just go from green to red like you are describing.

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