--- In [email protected], John Glaves <nbrhaps...@...> wrote: > > Here's a question for the techies in the group. My Beta 43 is 7 years > old and has accumulated "about" 4500 hours. I say "about" because the > hour meter display in the tachometer has become more and more > intermittent. When the display decides to work, it seems to be > accurate. This appears to be a problem with the LCD display only. > I've cleaned and inspected connections on the back of the tach to no > avail. If there ever was (can't remember) a light within the tach, it > no longer works either. My question is if there is anything else I > can try to recover the display. Beyond that, can the hour display be > repaired or do I need a new tach? Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Other than that, the old Beta chugs away reliably with no other > problems. > > Cheers, > John Glaves > nb Rhapsody (currently near Gas Street Basin) >
Join and do a search (crap search facility) on the Canal World Forum because this very thing on VDO rev-counters. In fact mine does it. The advise was that a small ribbon cable gradually develops a bad contact with the glass at the back of the hour-meter disply so you need to strip the meter and deal with it. There are two sorts each different. Tony Brooks
