From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Mark"
 wrote:
>I wander around in the local outlet from time to time, my Sony surround
>sound receiver has some kind of fluorescent display that went almost
>completely dark (about 8 years ago!, but I'm just starting to get annoyed
>now ) and I've been looking to see if they have a similar one on
>clearance, so far none that tickle my fancy or are cheap enough.

If it's worth it to you, the "dim display" is usually easy to fix
for a trained technician. Many manufacturers use the same circuit (probably
a VFD manufacturer's reference circuit) for generating the high voltage for
the display, and it has a design flaw that causes the capacitors to die.

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