Electronic Chip in Mechanical Shifter?

dinnyboy
dinnyboy Posts: 5
edited September 2016 in Workshop
My mechanical Ultegra 5700 front shifter seized and so I started to strip it down to see if I could identify the problem. On removing the plastic cap on the shifter body I found what appears to be an electronic chip.

I have no idea why there would be an electronic chip in a mechanical shifter. Any thoughts?

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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Is it one of those that could be used with the Flight deck computor.
  • dinnyboy
    dinnyboy Posts: 5
    I guess it could be that, although I can't see anywhere that you could plug the computer into the shifter.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    My older 5600 shifters have the tiny little rubber blanking plugs on the inside faces of the hoods. Always understood that was where a Flightdeck would be plumbed in. And somewhere inside there's what looks like a contact for something electrical...

    Academic now since Garmin and friends came along

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