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I've fitted a new LED in my early Tuscan which seemed to work fine on local drives. Went for a drive of about an hour and half and after about an hour it started to fade away. Once I had stopped and had a break of about an hour it came back but again after about an hours driving it started to fade again. It does not lose any numbers or letters its the whole thing thats fading. Has anyone had this problem with a new replacemnt LED.
Its quite possibly the contrast gents. Its an option in the pod setup somewhere.
When i did the group buy i purchases 60 odd screens and soldered on the connector's myself. When i installed in my car it had worked perfectly initially (i didnt test drive for any period of time, just switched on whilst sat on the drive), but the bloody thing went black after 10 minutes of driving....so clearly i had a heart attack having sold 60 of the bloody things!
Anyway, once the sweating slowed and i was able to think clearly, i adjusted the contrast and hey presto one very clear screen.
When i did the group buy i purchases 60 odd screens and soldered on the connector's myself. When i installed in my car it had worked perfectly initially (i didnt test drive for any period of time, just switched on whilst sat on the drive), but the bloody thing went black after 10 minutes of driving....so clearly i had a heart attack having sold 60 of the bloody things!
Anyway, once the sweating slowed and i was able to think clearly, i adjusted the contrast and hey presto one very clear screen.
Spoke to the supplyer today and they seem to think that there is a problem with some of the early Tuscans having a problem with the boards in the dash getting to hot. Not so sure about this as I never had that problem with the old one and I have been to the south of France at least 6 times in the hight of summer and this is winter driving when it's happening.
ruta87 said:
the actual display stays pright green for me. its the reading that fade. eventually i just end up with a bright green screen with very faint read outs of temp/RPM/fuel etc. tends to happen after about 30mins of driving.
are you getting the same?
Thats what mine did- double check all connections.are you getting the same?
I think it should be easy enough tbh, mine was fine after messing about making good contacts, drove it for a while and was fine, then half the screen went off. if i push the boards together tighter then it comes on.
i'm not sure how ill fix mine as the little screws between each board sort of determine how tight it all is but i'll have a fiddle with it, at least i know why its now doing it.
i'm not sure how ill fix mine as the little screws between each board sort of determine how tight it all is but i'll have a fiddle with it, at least i know why its now doing it.
grrrrrr
tried fixing mine today, i have found that the little screws that go between each layer of circuit board are actually smaller on the first course iykwim, so i put them in and it had almost all pixels back.
Then like a prick i broke the ribbon cables
got the soldered back up and then the little knob isnt working properly, its making a clicking noise, i hope its due to the voltage having dropped to 10v so it will be getting charged and tried again.
Basically its turing on and then getting stuck on the rpm readout, pressing button to skip through does nothing except make an audiable click like when you try and turn the car over with a flat battery/
I hope its the battery as tbh im getting f
ked off now (must have taken pod apart 20 times )
tried fixing mine today, i have found that the little screws that go between each layer of circuit board are actually smaller on the first course iykwim, so i put them in and it had almost all pixels back.
Then like a prick i broke the ribbon cables
got the soldered back up and then the little knob isnt working properly, its making a clicking noise, i hope its due to the voltage having dropped to 10v so it will be getting charged and tried again.Basically its turing on and then getting stuck on the rpm readout, pressing button to skip through does nothing except make an audiable click like when you try and turn the car over with a flat battery/
I hope its the battery as tbh im getting f
ked off now (must have taken pod apart 20 times )I'm still new to Tuscan ownership but have had a few dash gremlins so took the pod apart at the weekend. I found that the main connector here
had lots (and I mean lots!) of dry joints on the PCB
I resoldered all of those and my niggles (turn indicators sometimes not lighting up and speedo randomly dropping to zero) seem to have been cured - fingers crossed.
I can't see that it would affect the LCD contrast at all but whilst you're in there it's worth a look.
had lots (and I mean lots!) of dry joints on the PCB
I resoldered all of those and my niggles (turn indicators sometimes not lighting up and speedo randomly dropping to zero) seem to have been cured - fingers crossed.
I can't see that it would affect the LCD contrast at all but whilst you're in there it's worth a look.
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