Re: Funky display

I've broken way to many things in my misguided urge to "fix things". 
I now keep those screw drivers under lock and key.


--- In [email protected], Doug Alderdice <ka2wft@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>