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#229034 - 31/07/2004 04:36 Display Board for Sale?
masteriou new poster Registered: 26/08/2000 Posts: 13 Loc: Austria	Hi there! Quite a while ago, the display of my beloved empeg started to show vertical stripes which made it impossible to read anything... After searching the bbs I found out that the problem might lay in the VFD, so I bought one from Paul Grzelak (thank you Paul ) but after soldering the old out and the new in the problem remained... So I'm searching for a new display board... Cheers Michael _________________________ 60GB Blue & Karma (loving both)
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#229035 - 31/07/2004 11:35 Re: Display Board for Sale? [Re: masteriou]
pgrzelak carpal tunnel Registered: 15/08/2000 Posts: 4859 Loc: New Jersey, USA	Greetings! Wow. That is extremely rare. Usually, the symptom "stripes on the display" is a fault inside the VFD glass. Unfortunately, full display boards are extremely rare in the field - you would basically need a completely dead / unrepairable empeg (also extremely rare in the field) to get one of these. I think your only real hope for replacing a full board would be Rob S. Edit: putting symptom in quotes to avoid discussion of the proper use of singular and plural... Edited by pgrzelak (31/07/2004 14:25) _________________________ *Paul Grzelak* 200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs
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#229036 - 31/07/2004 14:19 Re: Display Board for Sale? [Re: masteriou]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Quote: but after soldering the old out and the new in the problem remained Did you also check for blown fuses and problems with the display cable? _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#229037 - 31/07/2004 19:19 Re: Display Board for Sale? [Re: tfabris]
schofiel carpal tunnel Registered: 25/06/1999 Posts: 2993 Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK	These to me sound like the more likely sources of the problem. Can you put up a picture? _________________________ One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015
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