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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mgm
- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: Can LED segments be fixed?
- Message-ID: <C0BA1y.BLA@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <silver.726114724@sfu.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:05:57 GMT
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- silver@fraser.sfu.ca (Craig Silver) writes:
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- >I have an old tv converter. It's a Jerold, the one with the remote
- >that takes a 9 volt. Some of the red LED segments that make up the
- >channel display don't light up anymore. I know the converter is
- >probably not worth fixing, but I'm just curious as to whether or
- >not these things can be done at a barable cost.
-
- No, there's no way to fix an individual segment of an LED display short of
- microsurgery.
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- On the other hand, I think those Jerrold TV converters just use two
- standard 7-segment displays, and since these can be had for under a
- dollar, that's undoubtedly the way to fix it.
- --
- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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