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Hey guys, my 16 year old TC Finalizer has a dying lcd screen (Or so I thought?). I could use it by setting the view angle,but it got unusable. I need help trying to figure out if it,s the lcd or the power supply. I thought it was the lcd until I bought another tc product the 'dbmax" which uses the same ps. The dbmax had a bad ps so i took the one from the bad finalizer and put it in the db max.Then the db max started having the same lcd problems that my finalizer had. Bought a new ps for the dbmax and it works fine. Does a bad power supply make the screen go dim?

[Mike Rivers[_2_]]

On 2/14/2015 8:22 PM, wrote:
Hey guys, my 16 year old TC Finalizer has a dying lcd screen (Or so I
thought?).
I thought it was the lcd until I bought another tc
product the 'dbmax" which uses the same ps. The dbmax had a bad ps so
i took the one from the bad finalizer and put it in the db max.Then
the db max started having the same lcd problems that my finalizer
had. Bought a new ps for the dbmax and it works fine. Does a bad
power supply make the screen go dim?

If the two power supplies are really identical and power supply from the
Finalizer makes the dB Max display have the same problem as when using
that power supply with the Finalizer, that sounds like a bad power
supply to me. Did you try using the new dB Max power supply with the
Finalizer?



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[Scott Dorsey]

In article ,
wrote:
Hey guys, my 16 year old TC Finalizer has a dying lcd screen (Or so I thoug=
ht?). I could use it by setting the view angle,but it got unusable. I need =
help trying to figure out if it,s the lcd or the power supply. I thought it=
was the lcd until I bought another tc product the 'dbmax" which uses the =
same ps. The dbmax had a bad ps so i took the one from the bad finalizer an=
d put it in the db max.Then the db max started having the same lcd problems=
that my finalizer had. Bought a new ps for the dbmax and it works fine. Do=
es a bad power supply make the screen go dim?

Might. Or maybe you have some bad capacitor on some other board that is
pulling down the power supply. Get out the meter, measure the voltages
coming out of the supply loaded and unloaded and see if they match the
numbers in the schematic.

If the supply rail that powers the LED is sagging, you'll see that sort of
problem.

The Finalizer is at about the age when it might just be a good idea to
shotgun out all the electrolytics everywhere just to be safe.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 6:31:30 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
Hey guys, my 16 year old TC Finalizer has a dying lcd screen (Or so I thoug=
ht?). I could use it by setting the view angle,but it got unusable. I need =
help trying to figure out if it,s the lcd or the power supply. I thought it=
was the lcd until I bought another tc product the 'dbmax" which uses the =
same ps. The dbmax had a bad ps so i took the one from the bad finalizer an=
d put it in the db max.Then the db max started having the same lcd problems=
that my finalizer had. Bought a new ps for the dbmax and it works fine. Do=
es a bad power supply make the screen go dim?

Might. Or maybe you have some bad capacitor on some other board that is
pulling down the power supply. Get out the meter, measure the voltages
coming out of the supply loaded and unloaded and see if they match the
numbers in the schematic.

If the supply rail that powers the LED is sagging, you'll see that sort of
problem.

The Finalizer is at about the age when it might just be a good idea to
shotgun out all the electrolytics everywhere just to be safe.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

OK I will try in the am.