Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:30:33 GMT From: "Bill Jackson" <wjacksonnospamesterdotrr.com> Subject: Re: Mildly entertaining SID tale
from what I've been able to see, it's not held on with conductive glue but hot bar soldered. I looked at mine under a microscope at work. It's convenient to have electronics techs working with you! The real pisser is that I finally broke down and bought a new one, $500 installed and it's been just over a year, and just out of warranty, and it's started all over again. "Colin Stamp" <col.dustbinnospamp.plus.com> wrote in message news:1dgpt1p4h9p96s7vl7fqsh3niij8rpgm2snospamcom... > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:48:01 GMT, meld_b <meld_bnospamo.com> wrote: > >>Hey - I've got dead pixels too... So can you tear these apart and work >>on that connection? I've seen this "zebra rubber" connections to LCD's >>before that if you wiggle it around you can get it back working. Of >>course I've also seen stuff bonded together so that you can never take >>it apart at least not in a state were you can get it back together. > > It's a bonded-on flexible cable I'm afraid. From what I read, > sometimes the bonding fails and sometimes the conductors in the cable > fail. A lot of people with failed bonds have been able to get it going > by using rubber strips to increase the pressure on the cable. Mine was > down to the conductors, so nothing worked. I farted about for hours > trying to completely replace the cable with wirewrap wire glued to the > glass with conductive epoxy. Unfortunately, the cable pitch is really > fine, and it was a bit of a frustrating job. Eventually this resulted > in the whole unit becoming broken into a thousand pieces - My foot > must have slipped, repeatedly. > > >> >>Maybe more importantly - how do you reset this thing once you take it >>out. Sorry - that's probably been discussed a lot. > > There's no need to reset it. It just works when you plug it back in. > If you buy a new unit though, you have to take it to someone with a > Tech 2 to tell it what car it's going into. > > Cheers, > > Colin.
