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Hello all!

As a testament to the FINE engineering, and to the men & women who put
these units together, and designed them:

I spent all day & all night working on this SDS7 unit, soldered a few
connections back on the power transformers...and guess what?

THE UNIT POWERED BACK ON, AND ACTED LIKE IT IS WORKING!!!!! IT WANTS
TO LIVE!

Says something for the ruggedness & simplicity in these units! Now
all I need is a new data panel with the BIG INCREMENT/PROGRAMMING KNOB
in working order...LARS, CAN YOU HELP A BROTHER OUT?!?!?!?!?!?!?

This unit's knob is sheared off at the base of knob, so i can't turn
it AT ALL!!!! And what's even funnier, there's no number, or marking
on it whatsoever, so I would have to take it completely off, and try
to find a match at my local electronics shop (since I don't know the
number of selections on the knob/potentiometer, a.k.a. the number of
selections it is supposed to click around)...its a three connection
switch/knob, but i don't know how many positions it contains...but the
data panel seems to be functioning perfectly other than that, and the
display looks fine!!!

I will still take photos of this units' components, and have borrowed
from a KIND FRIEND some EPROMS (sound chips) to test it with...the
patient just might come thru all this!!!! LOL

Thanks ALL!!!!

Rodney