Diamond Select Star Trek Tricorder

Pumpernickel said:
I got it out of demo mode and began playing with it and the first thing I noticed was the moire was not spinning. The moire motor was running, but no spin. Everything else worked. A couple of bangs on the side, though, and the moire now works fine.

Pumpernickel
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A few light slams and it worked fine eh? :lol I tried fixing my car like that once...

It does look good though, I like that the clear screen is the correct shape and not just a flat surface.
 
My deepest regret is that these toys didn't exist in the mid 70's. As much as I enjoy the heck out of them as an adult, nothing would have matched the sheer joy I would have exuded running around my back yard pretending to be Kirk, Spock and McCoy when I was 8 years old. I guarantee I would have played with them every single solitary day for my entire 8-year old life...and possibly every other day from the time I was 9 until my "47 year old self" today! :)
 
I just got an email from amazon.com, which stated the science tricorder will not ship until sometime between 7-20 and 7-24-2009. :confused

Pumpernickel
 
I got mine today. Overall a nice piece. Mine has good paint and no glue smears.
The scanner has some glue boogers, but they seem to rub off easy enough.

The top has softer texture on the front and rear sides, a common problem with
injection molded parts. I've seen it on model kits, usually round parts with soft
detail on the sides.

Here's a couple of pics of the top. These link to the full size pics to show detail.


Here's the bottom. The center plastic strip has more texture than the rest, and
a deeper black color. The whole thing should look like this :)

I'm thinking of replacing the silver painted parts with aluminum, and maybe some
semi gloss black paint for the rest to even out the finish.
 
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Hi guys,

Has anyone had any issues with the McCoy sounding like Alvin the chipmunk? My friend just recieved our order and 2 of the 3 sound this way.


Christian
 
i did find out that the screen is stopped from moving back further by hitting the silver lip on the body. there is a mechanical stop in the right side of the screen , when the lip is filed of some , around 1/8" the screen will tilt back more to the correct in my opinion angle, the mechanical stop will hold it from going further back.
BUT the electronics will only work with the screen straight up due to the position of the switch in the screen head , it it activated by the mechanical stop.
i am working on changing the switch so it will stay active further back
john :cool
 
I just got mine like 12 hours ago! Very cool! Also a bit disappointing. But all in all, I still really enjoy it. McCoy's a bit sped up, the moire motor is hideously loud, the strap is kinda insubstantial, the scanner design is lame.... whine whine whine. But, it's far more affordable than an MR, I won't be too worried bringing it to cons, and I SO WOULD HAVE LOVED this thing when I was a kid. My Exploration Set is now complete!


phase pistol said:
This guy has a similar idea but he's looking in the middle compartment.. counting moire spins I guess. :lol

sogtricorderbottom.jpg


More first-season McCoy action, with the lower door open.
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I never noticed the bottom in that shot. I thought the bottom on the tricorders was aluminum. Is it the lighting, or just a non-aluminum bottomed version?
 
CGeorge said:
Hi guys,

Has anyone had any issues with the McCoy sounding like Alvin the chipmunk? My friend just recieved our order and 2 of the 3 sound this way.


Christian
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Yeah a lot are like that, mine too. I think it's a tone problem, like the treble is
turned up too high. It's also REALLY LOUD!!! Some gauss or something in front
of the speaker may help.

The scanner sound on the other hand is so faint I can barely hear it.
 
The old Marco Ent. tricorder had the same type of holder...

micdavis said:
A Bruce Wegman tricorder has a custom made holder for the scanner built into the lower compartment. It consists of two rings (with one flat side) glued to the inner surface of the lower door. One the size of the clear cover, the other the size of the aluminum ring at the bottom of the clear cover. Sits super snug, no rattling around.
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So I know this kind of off topic, but not really worth starting a new topic over.

It looks like it would cost more to mod the hand scanner on the medical version than worth it, when the the HMS is actually really well priced.

Does anyone know if the HMS makes noise? If not I guess that would explain why it's so well priced.
 
DG, I don't think it does. The way I read it, they (Roddenberry.com) point out that it spins but doesn't mention sound at all. A question I have is regarding their Tricorder kit. It's fairly reasonably priced--how hard is it to build?
 
I have one of HMS's medical scanners.

It's a really nice piece. But, SonofJorel is correct, there is no sound.
 
If it already spins, it doesn't sound lke it would be too difficult so add the speaker from the DST scanner.
 
trekker670 said:
If it already spins, it doesn't sound lke it would be too difficult so add the speaker from the DST scanner.
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I'm really enamored by this idea. I notice that unfortunately the HMS scanner does not come in kit form -- which would make it easier to mod. Does anyone who has this scanner have a sense of how modifiable it would be?
 
This is a darned cool toy. Unlike the medical version (and that disappointing manually spinning scanner it came with), I have no issues with the science version. The tricorder itself has different features and sounds than the medical one. The science version has a "call-back" feature, with several options, similar to DST's TOS communicator. They call it a tricorder hail function. Button number one (far left) controls only the call-back feature. The middle button is the scanner, which when pressed gives the distinctive tricorder scanning sound and spins the moire. The third button controls various Spock tricorder phrases. The little hand scanner it comes with is nice. The instructions state that it has a "tri-colored LED," but I think there's more than three colors. The primary colors (red, blue, and green) blink separately in sequence, and then they twinkle faster, then go back to slow blink (sorta how some Xmas tree lights function). Like the med version, the strap length can be adjusted.

Comparing the science version to the medical, this one seems a bit sturdier than the med one, but that could just be by chance. Also, the TRU I went to had a bunch of these in stock and they all sounded good (i.e., no sped-up voices like some spotted with the med version). I'm very, very pleased.

A couple of pix below.

Pumpernickel

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