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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
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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)
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#229036 - 31/07/2004 14:19 Re: Display Board for Sale? [Re: masteriou]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31583
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?
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#229037 - 31/07/2004 19:19 Re: Display Board for Sale? [Re: tfabris]
schofiel
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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?
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