Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi.
Just changed my display-backlite in my FZ-1; if you¹re interested how this
worx
(sure there out some VZs and FZs fading), what u need and what it costs:
have a look at my site.
The text is still in german (english soon .-)  but there a lot of pix for
demo...
It¹s quite easy, some soldering, a new backlite (~13 euro) and a little
practise...

Click the CZ/FZ stuff button!

Btw: never never never buy a red backlite ;-)

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Monster
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On 31 Oct 2002 at 15:02, cosmo wrote:

> Just changed my display-backlite in my FZ-1; if you¹re interested how
> this worx (sure there out some VZs and FZs fading), what u need and
> what it costs: have a look at my site. The text is still in german
> (english soon .-)  but there a lot of pix for demo... It¹s quite easy,
> some soldering, a new backlite (~13 euro) and a little practise...

> http://www.cosmosynths.userpage.de

Do you think the procedure for changing the light for a CZ-1000 would be 
similar to this? Mine is burnt out, so it's next to impossible to 
program. If I could see what I was doing, I'd get a lot more use out of 
the machine.

I'm looking forward to the english translation - I tried letting 
babblefish do it, and now it makes even less sense to me!

am 31.10.2002 17:23 Uhr schrieb Lin Sprague unter lsprague@...:

> Do you think the procedure for changing the light for a CZ-1000 would be
> similar to this? Mine is burnt out, so it's next to impossible to
> program. If I could see what I was doing, I'd get a lot more use out of
> the machine.
> 
> I really dont know exactly...
> I know there some dealers in the Net selling the backlite-foil for
> AKAIs and FZs/VZs.
> Czs must use the same backlites;
> the procedure should be the same: the ³EL flat Luminous Plate² get only 5
> Volts from the Board via an inverter (needed to make the  the phosphor light)
> and is activated by an alterning electric field.
> No difference.
> 
> As you can see on the pix the Display in the FZ is really easy accessible -
> some screws around but nothing special ­ so why not in the CZs?
> I will unscrew my CZ-1 next weekend and add a new (green) plate too; so I¹ll
> make some nix Pix again.
> 
> the foil comes in 2 standard sizes (in Germany):
> 5.5 x 1.5 inch (138 mm x 87 mm) and
> 4.5 inch x 3.5 inch (112 mm x 87 mm)
> 
> just trim them to your size and voila!
> 
> 
Monster
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>Do you think the procedure for changing the light for a CZ-1000 would be
>similar to this? Mine is burnt out, so it's next to impossible to
>program. If I could see what I was doing, I'd get a lot more use out of
>the machine.

I'm just speculating here
but if you're willing to do the work it might be possible to replace the 
whole thing with an LED-backlit display that won't burn out

the problem with EL panels is that sooner or later they're going to die.  
LEDs won't.  If the display has a standard display driver and it's a normal 
size (don't know because I don't have a CZ) then it shouldn't be hard to 
order a new display.

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