[ale] OT: Apex PD650 Black Screen

[Christopher Fowler]

Digi-Key might have the parts

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 14:24, Mark Wright wrote:
> If the back light is out it could be the high voltage power supply 
> which is usually one board or the flouresent tube itself.  I repaired a 
> laptop recently that had a busted tube.  The power supply was good. It 
> drew a pretty blue arc to my meter probe as soon as I came within an 
> inch of it.  (thought I'd see if ti worked before I found the shattered 
> tube).
> 
> If you are having intermitent problems maybe is is a loose connection 
> or possible the high voltage supply is going out.
> 
> I don't know were you would get parts at a price that would make it 
> reasonable to repair.  I pulled the old flouresent tube out of an 
> identical screen that was cracked.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > Two years ago I purchased an Apex PD-650 Portable DVD player and am no
> > having some issues.  Sometimes the screen goes out.  I can still see 
> > the
> > video but is very dark.  Almost like the LCD lost the backlight.  Since
> > this unit is out of warranty and a POS anyway I would like to attempt 
> > to
> > fix it.  Does anyone know that the typical part would be that needs
> > replacing?
> >
> >
> >
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