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Warning: Lightspeed Aviation No Earseals or Parts Thirty 3G Teardown<\/p>\n

Big Issues with Lightspeed Aviation. This is a set of Lightspeed Aviation Thirty 3G<\/a> they were placed in climate controlled storage (Rubber amid tub in a closet) 8-10 years ago. There are No Ear Seals or Parts available form the manufacture.
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\nThese Ear Seals and headbands Deteriorate and Cannot Be replaced. The Manufacture no longer makes them and there are no third party vendors.<\/p>\n

The Cables are very low quality and suffer form dry rot like the $99.00 low end headsets like asa\/flightcom.\u00a0 Lightspeed Aviation CEO said these headsets were rebranded items form a china vendor refused to disclose the vendor maybe a chance to source cables and earseals.<\/p>\n

Photo of the of the Ear Seals they just flaking and they fell off the clips. If someone was good with a sewing machine and seam ripper one could break them down and reproduce these in lambskin leather and glue them to the mounts and they would last almost a lifetime.
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\nEar Seal Clips
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As if this posting it is my opinion if you are considering a Lightspeed Aviation Headset I Say Stay Far away from Lightspeed Aviation products Run Fast!<\/p>\n

The Lightspeed Zulu Headsets<\/a> also suffer form Cable Rot and Deterioration of the earseals and head pads along with turning to sticky goo..<\/p>\n

Teardown, Small Battery Leak Repair, And Firmware Backup.<\/strong>
\nThis headset initially was Shelved and used as a Passenger set when I got my Zulus and Batteries Leaked they were removed and leakage I\u00a0 thought was neutralized prior to storage.
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\nI Removed the Wires and Cleaned up the Boards a Little, Still a Lot of Dried up Flux form factory Production. Not sure what the deal is with that tantalum cap maybe a factory bodge?
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\nOther Side of the PCB, I am not Going to Remove the Can Covers.
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\nMCU is a PIC 16F505 (Generally Most Pic Chips are Code Protected.) Since Lightspeed Aviation is not #righttorepair friendly I will attempt to backup this chip up.
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\nLightpseed Aviation Thirty 3G MCU PIC 16F505 Chip Removed
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\nLightpseed Aviation Thirty 3G MCU PIC 16F505 Chip Removed In an Adapter Socket.
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\nI Lit up the Xeltek 6100N Programmer Loaded the PIC16F505 8K Algo Set the Mega Magic to DX2045 Crossed Fingers Click on Read and Verify.
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\nCheck the Device Configuration… Ohhh Yes Code protection is Off \ud83d\ude42
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\nLets Check the Buffer, We now have a backup of the Firmware for the Lightspeed Aviation Thrity 3G Firmware
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\nThere is also an eeprom U2 24LC00 1K
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\nSame Procedure but general Serial eproms code cannot be protected (Some modern ones they can)
\nLS Thirty 3G U2 24LC00 Chip Removed
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\nLS Thirty 3G U2 24LC00 Chip Removed In SOIC Adapter.
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\nThirty 3G U2 24LC00 Chip Read and Verify Success.
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\nCheck the Buffer and See data Not Much May be a counter or Firmware may access it to give model info who knows.
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To\u00a0 Be Continued: Headset Drivers (Speakers\/Microphones) Teardown Soon!<\/p>\n

Left Ear Cup\/Dome Opened 5 Screws 3 on the edge and 2 low near the microphone. The one screw under the Illegal Warranty Void Sticker<\/a>. Stickers that claim a warranty is void if removed are often illegal because they violate the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Ac<\/a>t by implying that using third-party parts or services will automatically void the warranty<\/span>
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\nUnplug the Wires and\u00a0 3\u00a0 small screws to remove the board
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\nBoard Is Out\u00a0 this must be the\u00a0 brains\u00a0 of the the\u00a0 ENC..
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\nThere it is another Pic chip 12C508A You know what we do Lets Remove it and attempt a backup.
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\nRemove the Lead free solder so less heat can be used so no damage to plastic connectors.
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\nRemoval with no melted connectors.
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\nNow Lets Read it.. 12C508A Selected\u00a0 DX1032 in the MagaMagic Chip In the Adapter..
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\nRead \/ Verify Ok..
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\nCheck the Device Config..\u00a0 Another winner Unprotected!!
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\nCheck the Buffer, Looks like there is data What it Do Who Knows… I am not a Coder but if there I ever have a need for a repair there is now a back up of the firmware.
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\nFinal thoughts on this firmware backup it is very “repair friendly” for them to no keep the chips unprotected.\u00a0 I hope the zulus are the same!<\/p>\n

If I Get Any More Info\/Updates I Will Let You know!<\/p>\n

Download Firmware Backups For Repair Purposes.<\/p>\n

Maybe Lightspeed Aviation will play ball and embrace the right to repair!<\/p>\n

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