<div>Craig,</div><div><br></div>You built it in 2008? Wow.<div><br></div><div>> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; "> I feel I may have a bad component in the lighting/dimming circuit</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; ">> on the power supply board but I don't know where to start.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I'll restate the obvious, just to give you a place to start.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) Refer to the "In case of difficulty" section of your manual // usually pretty good</div><div>2) Verify the required power supplies for the lamp are all present (and in tolerance)</div><div>
3) Verify the control signal from the Z-80 board is valid (i.e. it's being told to light the lamp)</div><div><br></div><div>Since you've already replaced the lamp, once you do all of the above, you'll know for sure that it's a lamp driver board issue. It probably is, but don't pull your hair out until to verify the obvious.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As long as the magnetics are good, and if they're not, there's probably visible evidence present, you (or someone) will be able to fix the original board.</div><div><br></div><div>You can trouble shoot the circuit following the "Theory of operation" section of the manual (e.g. is the oscillator running, is the driver good, etc. etc.).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The purist in me agrees with you about not hacking it up with LEDs. </div><div><br></div><div>Let us know how you make out with the above, and if you get stuck again.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
<div>-Mark</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Craig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwill10041@aol.com">cwill10041@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">I have an ID-5001 Weather Computer with the fluorescent display bulb that won't light. I built the unit in 2008 from a new kit and it has functioned perfectly for 2 years. The replacement bulb I purchased will not light either. All other data and functions are working fine. I unplugged the socket that feeds the fluorescent bulb sockets because I noticed that the bracket (heat sink) coming off Q307 (Part # 417-856) a MJE5979 transistor was getting extremely hot while the other bracket from transistor Q302 remained cool. I feel I may have a bad component in the lighting/dimming circuit on the power supply board but I don't know where to start. I know that historically, this fluorescent display was problematic and I really do not want to convert to LED's. Any ideas as to what commonly goes bad on these? As I say verything else works fine.</font></div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Craig </div>
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