You can try to check connections, and measure voltages, or check which
signals goes from display driver. Maybe problem is there.

It would be probably difficult to find this old VF display, and it's a
question if there's a modern substitution, I tried to find something
but it's quite different from two main standards used for displays
( HD44780 and compatible for character displays and T6963 and
compatible for graphic displays).

Display model is Noritake Itron FG166A2.

Try to ask here:

http://www.americanmicrosemi.com/catalog/FG166A2.html

Let us know, I'd like to get one also but couldn't find it...

Thanks in advance!

Daniel Forro

On 16 Jan, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Nothing Special wrote:

> Recently my Matrix-6 has developed a couple of dead segments on the
> display; nothing major, but I would like to get it fixed. However, I
> don't feel like trying to buy a whole additional display/panel board,
> and Syntaur doesn't have them in stock anyway. I can try to redo the
> solder connections just in case it's a cracked joint (I suspect this
> is the case, since it seems to be the same segments on each
> character,) but if that doesn't do it, does anybody know the part
> number for the display and/or a suitable replacement part