12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
11:54 a.m.
On Saturday 12 August 2006 02:39 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8/12/2006 at 1:58 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Sounds like a plan to me...
90VAC? They take that much? Hm.
The other option I've got is to remove the metal bit that's on the front of
the display, which has just some twist-tabs holding it in place. I'm
reluctant to do so, though, because of having had some bad experiences in
the past with those "zebra" connectors shifting and never quite working right
after that.
I'll figure something out.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
What I'm wondering is whether or not
there's any way to test the stuff
connected to that point to find out what the heck it is...
Well, if I were to take a guess at it, I'd first make sure that neither
lead had any sort of continuity to ground or any other power or signal
lead. If it's an EL panel, there's basically no resistive characteristic
to it; it's purely capacitive. If a few tests bear that out (curve
tracer?), I'd go ahead and try applying a moderate (~90 v) AC voltage to
it ballasted through about a megohm and see if anything lights up.