Today I got in the mail a new FDS belt. I got to work on my FDS to clean out the remains of the old one (it broke apart into many pieces and, oh joy, scraping the remnants off the motor's pulley...) and while I was working on this, I noticed a red wire was soldered onto the circuit board. The pictures and other documentation I've seen do not show such a wire existing.
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My camera isn't very good at showing things at short and small distances so it does appear a little blurry. I never heard of any mods for FDS or what they might do. The left solder point should be obvious but the other one is one the top row, five pins in. Does anyone know why this is here? Should it be here?
To backtrack a bit, I tested the FDS when I got a working Famicom and it powers up and quickly goes to "Now Loading..." even without a disk card in it. Now that I have the FDS open, I see the little metal switch that triggers whether or not there is a disk card is fine, it's not stuck. So I'm not sure why, unless this soldered wire explains that odd behavior?
I'm still busy cleaning the broken belt out so I will not be back to testing for some time. Hopefully I can get an answer about this red wire before I will reassemble the FDS. If this wire needs to be taken out, now's the time to do it.
Thanks for the help...