MTU – Mikrap Display: Evolution from DIS1 to DIS13
In the middle of the 90´s we could see the first generation of these displays, where MTU, using the swiss company called Mikrap for manufacturing, installed them in marine applications as a part of MCS-5 electronic system. The DIS1 used an Intel 386 at its CPU processor unit and you could read engine values as […]
Finishing year 2.023, Christmas meal and party
Yesterday we had our Christmas meal with all our team. Amazing year with our 10th Aniversary included. Now, finishing the year, we only can say many, many thanks to all our customers that used our electronic repair services. January 2.024 starts a new era in Restoretronic, which moves to new, better and bigger facilities to […]
New facilities for 2.024: New Restoretronic for 10th aniverary!!!
During last 4 years, we have been working at this location, our laboratory in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Thousands of electronic repairs have been done at this facility, but now we are preparing to move to a new 275m2 place to be able to afford the big demand of repairs we have. Soon the laboratory […]
MTU. Testing BIB1 and BOB1 electronic board with our exclusive testing tool
Some weeks ago I promised you to share a video where we can see how we test all the electronic steps of different input / outputs PCB´s used in MTU electronic systems. Since the MCS-5 electronic system appeared on the market, we can see a lot of these boards with different functions installed on various […]
MTU. ECS-5 RCS-5 FPP/B electronic system: Portable Control Unit ROS-3
October 2.023 This week we have been working on a problem of RCS-5 FPP/B system from a customer based in Mexico. They couldn´t operate the ROS3 unit, one of the first portable control unit used for manouvering the yacht. The MTU service company which was working on that boat was not able to make the […]
MTU. ECS-Uni system – Obsolete LCD and MERC-2, our solutions: repair or exchange
October 2.023 MTU ECS-Uni system is old, strong and technically complex system which is used mainly in 396 and 1163 engine series. We repaired some LOP´s and ECS from this system in the past for different worldwide customers. Some weeks ago we received again a LOP to be fixed, from a greek company which use […]
MTU. BlueVision system: MFD-1 multifunction display
On this repair done on MTU MFD1 display, we had to repair internal LCD, but also we had to replace its back broken connectors due to a bad package coming from a company in Malta.After these repairs, we connected the unit to our BlueVision simulator to finally communicate with the other devices, looking for more […]
MTU. BlueLine system: ROS-7, electronic control lever damaged by water ingress
Sometimes people think there are not more options than buying a new device, but they are wrong.Look this ROS7 received from a customer based in Greece, not good looking… but we have repaired crazy problems at wet and burnt PCB’s like this.Important to have a way to check all functionality of the device after repairing […]
Electronic design and manufacture: Restoretronic Input – Output Auxiliary Card Tester
Many electronic boards used mainly as binary and analog input / output units, as BIB, AIB, INB, BOB, etc, are installed in different MTU systems doing a lot of functions for data adquisition. BlueLine, MCS-5 or ECS-183 are some example of the systems.We repair them with a fully test of each function of these different […]
MTU. BlueLine system: Display DIS10-DIS13, CPU Mikrap 10962 repair
This is a CPU from one of the last generation of DIS10-DIS13 from MTU, to be exact it is a Mikrap 10962. It seems so simple, around 5×8 cm PCB… but we have been working, studying, analysing, troubleshooting it, for around 2 years with its random failure behavieurs. It was a nightmare and very frustrating […]