Re: Re: Funky display

At 12:57 PM 6/14/2008 +0000, eeyore_pumpkin wrote:
>Much thanks to Doug and Mike for the information.  Odd think, one of
>the segments came back over night.  Been humid here but front went
>through.  Wonder if humidity plays a factor?

I wondered about that myself when my VR500 was doing the same thing.  The 
problem appeared to come and go with humidity, but it never really went 
completely away.  I got brave and opened my VR500, and I could make the 
problem come and go at will by pressing on the ribbon cable that goes 
between the main board and the display.  I could never get it to stay 
"fixed."  I attempted to remove the display to further explore the 
connection of the display's ribbon cable to the main board, but all I 
managed to do was break a small surface mount transformer on the back of 
the unit that rendered UHF reception useless... had Vertex fix that, too, 
when I sent it in.  New surface mount transformer: 67 cents.  Lesson 
learned to keep my hands out of the innards of the VR500: priceless...  ;-)

73,

Doug.