[ARC5] ARC5 Digest,

[Peter Gottlieb]

It ended up being far more involved than I first thought. What kept me going was that I paid a pretty decent amount of money for radio despite the partially defective display and I was mighty determined to see the project through. 

Peter
Kb2vtl 

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 9:38 PM, Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com> wrote:
> 
> That is amazing Peter. Congratulations. Certainly not some thing I could have done. 73 - Mike 
> 
> Mike B. Feher, N4FS
> 89 Arnold Blvd.
> Howell NJ 07731
> 848-245-9115
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 9:12 PM
> To: Tim <timsamm at gmail.com>
> Cc: ARC-5 QTH <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest,
> 
> I had received a Syncal 2000 with bad LCD display.  There was corrosion where the zebra strips couldn't connect to the very thin conductive coating as it was eaten away.  No way to fix that.  But the rest of the radio worked fine, so I programmed an Arduino to act as an I2C bus slave to replace the existing LCD driver chips and then drove a graphics display to recreate the original display, except with a bit more information like battery voltage.  The project was a success, the radio looks great, better than the original, but was an enormous amount of work.
> 
> Peter
> kb2vtl
> 
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