Good evening all,
Posting to the wisdom of the group to see if anyone can help.
I've been using a Topcon FC-2500 with Topsurv for about a year and a half without any major issues. On Friday, I completed my job and decided to take a couple photos using the on-board camera (which I don't do often). The camera seemed to work fine, saved the photos and then ran out of memory, so I stopped using the camera and turned the DC off. When I went to download the files, I was not able to turn on the DC. Batteries had a charge, and still could not turn on the DC even when plugged into an outlet. Haven't had any issues before, I didn't drop it, and can't think of any reason why this could have happened (not that there needs to be one.)
This has not been my week with computers.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I have had issues when I used the camera. Got to the point I never use it anymore, it will lock up my 2500 if I even hit the button accidentally. When that happens the only thing I can do is hold the on button for 20 or so seconds and force a hard reboot.
Hope that helps
I have that lock up problem when I accidentally hit the power button instead of the function button. Then I have to do the reboot. Now there is no lights or screen. The CHG/LOW light blinks however when the battery cover is open, but that's the only indication that something works.
Take it off the charger and take the batteries out for about five minutes. This will allow the capacitors to drain and will cold boot the DC when you put the batteries back in it.
Try tighting the screws on the battery cover. Similar event happen to me last week and that's all it took.
Good Luck
Be vary carefully and don't over tighten.
One of my 2500 is down because the battery was miss seated and when tightening the brass seat pulled loose and now only way to fix is to replace the whole back cover. About a 600 fix if I remember right.