Sad day for the Tiki Gods cabinet

[zeenon]

After running strong for about a month, I turn the cab on today and have the dreaded vertical line....so pissed!!!!!

Z

[Dr. Willy]

sorry to hear man, but look at the positive...... time to go plasma

[scottpe]

sorry to hear man, but look at the positive...... time to go plasma

I'm sure that's just what he wanted to hear after already dropping 3 bills on this display...

zeenon, I assume you tried the obvious and re-seated your connections?

[zeenon]

Purchased 4/22/2013 I'm wondering if there is any type of warranty?

Scott, yeah reseated the USB on both ends, the ribbon cable, and the power just to make sure.

Z

[neohusky]

Vishay was happy enough to offer an RMA on my display with a dead pixel even though it was many months old. I've returned it to Virtuapin and awaiting its return.

[zeenon]

I sent a PM to Brad from VPcabs so I'll keep you updated.

Z

[Dr. Willy]

yeah believe Vishay does do rma's but you have to go through whoever you bought it from for it.

[neohusky]

you have to go through whoever you bought it from for it.

This is exactly was I was told by Vishay. I had to arrange shipping from Australia back to VirtuaPin.

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[russdx]

Dead pixel shorting the whole column out These Matrix LED's displays suffer quite badly from this

I guess this is one advantage of the new pinLED displays they have socketed led matrix segments, so when some thing goes wrong you just pop the dodgy segment out and send it back to pinLED and they will then send you a new one.

[zeenon]

Russ,

Is that the cause, because I don't see a dead pixel? (When I think of a dead pixel, I think completely out)

just curious

Z

[scottpe]

Is that the cause, because I don't see a dead pixel? (When I think of a dead pixel, I think completely out)

I think by 'dead' Russ is basically saying a 'bad' pixel. Bad pixels can be totally dead (always off) or stuck in the on position.

[russdx]

yeah some times completely unlit but some times half lit, If you run one of the roms DMD test, when it lights the whole DMD you should see 1 pixel in that column doing some thing weird hehe.

[neohusky]

Here was mine.

[russdx]

4th pixel up looks totally dead on your display