Re: Funky display

At 11:48 PM 6/13/2008 +0000, eeyore_pumpkin wrote:
>    My vr500 has always worked flawlessly, turned it on tonight and the
>display has gone a little odd.  Left two digits display as a backward
>3 rather than an 8.  If it was the old days I'd assume a led segment
>had blown.  Tried reset as a last resort, no help.
>
>     Assume it needs to go in for repair, but is that feasible in
>todays throw away society.  Anyone recommend a repair site?  Any vague
>ideas on cost to have it repaired?


Mine did the same thing.  Had a couple of vertical segments over to the 
left of the display go out.  Never knew what memory channel I was on, 
etc.  I figured it was too many tumbles off the headboard by my bed where 
it runs 24/7.  I finally bit the bullet and sent it to Vertex Standard (who 
owns Yaesu), per the directions on their web site.

Can't complain at all about their service.  Got notification when they 
received it both by mail and by phone, got a phone call from the tech after 
he had looked at it and had the estimate ready etc.

All told, they had to replace the LCD display, and while it was in I had 
them replace the gasketing on the headphone and DC adapter jacks because 
they had dried out and broken off.  Total came to $121.87 USD, including 
return shipping.  Almost half that ($62.86) was the new display, and this 
was in early March of this year.

Directions for sending in products for repair to their US facility are 
located on this page: 
http://www.yaesu.com/?cmd=ContactUs&DivisionID=65  down the left hand side.

Good luck.

73,

Doug.