Dick LeadWinger wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:22:49 +0000 (UTC), (Mike
Andrews) wrote:
Dick LeadWinger wrote:
I noticed tonight that my Kenwood TM-732A has suddenly developed some
garbage in the display over about 25% of it. Looks like fern leaves
or something like that. The normal display items are still there.
The garbage is in the background, but makes the display very hard to
read. Am I looking at a new display? The radio does run 24/7
monitoring our ARES repeater. Maybe it just finally did it in.
It's an LCD, right? Sounds like it has developed a leak, and air is
getting into the liquid crystal layer. If that is the case, then it
is indeed new-display time.
Yes, it is an LCD display. The garbage appears as soon as power is
applied, and before the actual display appears. I was hoping maybe it
was a display driver that was going, but I agree it looks more like
the LCD itself. I never heard of the leaking problem. That's
something new to me.
I wish it were new to me, but it isn't. The Boy had his Palm i705 PDA
in his pocket, unprotected, when he sat down, and pushed something
else in the pocket up against the screen hard enough to crack it. As
a result, air is getting into the liquid crystal layer. Initially, it
showed as a fern-leaf-like change in the display; it has become _much_
worse over time, and now I get to order a new display and install it.
In the case of your TM-732A, it sounds like a leak at the edge. You
might ask Kenwood Service if this is a known problem. If it is, they
might repair it, or ship you a new display.
*sigh*
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