Wednesday 24 August 2011

New PE150 fix coming very soon....

I have a new PE150 power board on the way from Brother. I'm rather hoping that it will be brand new and not just 'new old stock', particularly as it has a new part number. If so, then before fitting it I'll be doing some comparisons with an old (but working) board, and also collecting the relevant data sheets for all the components on the board. It may be that I can actually start repairing my old broken boards too.

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  1. have you managed to work out how to get the 150 to owrk on a larger sewing area than 4x4 (just using a bigger hoop not splitting the design etc)

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    1. To be honest I've not thought about that; all our designs fit on the standard hoop. But off the top of my head I doubt it can be done. Movement of the XY carriage is limited by its size so simply fitting a bigger hoop would not increase the sewing area - it would still be limited to 4x4 and designs would still need splitting. Somehow extending the carriage, or using one from a larger machine, wouldn't be sufficient either as the firmware built into the machine would also need modifying, I think...

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