Well...
First came the nightmare of trying to figure out how to open the case - half an hour of utter frustration and bafflement followed by one moment of disbelieving realisation. Little did I know...
The true horror of the situation soon began to unfold. The existing display was soldered in - wire by wire. Only two colours were used for the wiring, rather than the friendly rainbow of delight adorning the replacement. No one-for-one wiring match-up then. The replacement display seemed to be giving me a 'knowing' grin.
After a bit of indecision and head-scratching I decided it would be better to simply swap over the backlight. It should be easy enough - remove the tin display cover, unsolder two connectors, pull out the fluorescent strip and replace with the new one.
I removed the display cover and saw the light strip underneath. The display portion itself fell away from the circuit board, leaving no trace, or clue, as to how it been attached. I could see no connections for it - it simply sat on two 'silicon'(?) strips. How the heck does *that* work? No metal connections; no pins, no obvious point of attachment?! Moving the panel and its 'silicon' mounting strips around over the circuit board produced a few lines on the LCD - but no clue as to where was the right position. Heck, I didn't even know if I'd got the strips in the right place, let alone the panel. OK, I'd figure that out later...
I removed the cover of the replacement display (which also fell apart)... to find it had
no backlight strip. If my car wasn't parked under the window there would be a dent in the driveway tarmac right now.
Life is too short. Another piece of landfill, a few day's of regret and it will all be over. At least I now have a space to fill with a new toy - pity it won't have poly aftertouch though - and certainly not 76 keys of poly aftertouch, even if it did.
Elf's Elka MK76 - RIP 2021.
I'm going to miss you, girl...
I've done a few displays so I could help. My Akai MX-1000 has an iPhone 6+ backlight in it (common thing people are doing with Akais of that era) the Casio FZ-1 has something similar, and I'm just doing a Quadraverb now.
