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Ziv
08-05-12, 03:48 PM
Following the link http://www.chewys-stuff.co.uk/ and selecting instrument bling you'll be brought to a page I'm sure most SV tweekers are familiar with.

I've had these lights in BLUE for some time now and have recently gotten round to making the move from waste of money - installed. However I was unable to surpass step 5.

"Since the display is not fixed in place, you can now carefully pull the white plastic cover out with the LCD display. Take care when pulling the liquid crystal display out. Its a glass screen and is so easily damaged, pull it out square and gently and you will be ok.
NOTE** The pins are about 15mm long."

Suffice to say the T.V. repair chaps who are quite competant at micro-soldering (and one of which is an SV rider) are stumped here too, particularly since they don't want to damage the screen any more than I do. Any advice, tips, vids or pics will be most welcome, even if its just a matter of saying "put sum welly in" the first time I take something apart i'm always a little nervous to its fragility.

Cheers guys

MJC-DEV
08-05-12, 05:20 PM
I actually struggle with your white text on white background.
Anyway, if the LCD pins are in socket strips you need to slowly work them up from alternate ends.

Ziv
08-05-12, 06:07 PM
apologies.. my default is black background and i presumed this was the same for everyone.. half of my message wasn't showing up hence converting all the text to white

MJC-DEV
08-05-12, 06:14 PM
Ah, thanks to JayneFlakes and your last - it all becomes clear with Dark Night! Which actually looks quite good :)