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MP2 Display Fading
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Seems over time the MP2 display fades, this has happened to my original MP2 and as far as I know there is no adjustment for it so I bought a replacement from MJMP (http://www.marshalljmpmodshop.net/miscellaneous_parts_and_replacement_tubes.htm) for 21 euro thingies. I still haven' installed it, that MP2 is in my live rig and I rarely need to see the display so I don't know how difficult it is to replace (MJMP?). Anyway Tomy just asked me about this so I thought I'd post here for others to see also.

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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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Hey everybody, I must clarify that some of gear is still working anyway :lol:
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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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I replaced mine a while back, it was relatively easy to do. Some plastic clips hold it in place and you just plug in a big flat cannon plug thingy full of wires.

I have a spare, that I have not installed yet (thank you Adam!)

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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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A cannon plug??

Like Dante says,not so hard to install,unplug it,desolder the ground wire (easy to do) replace it,re plug it and solder the wire back and you're done.
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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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I said flat. :)

Cannon plugs are round, it's flat, I was struggling for a word  :facepalm:

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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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I replaced my one a couple of years ago ... but why do the original displays begin to fade?

Perhaps my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to remember seeing an MP-2 with a different colour display, blue I think?
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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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Hi everybody,  Maybe we did not identify symptoms of a dead  display screen ; In my case,when I'm standing right in front of my mp2,screen is green with black squares, and if I move upper, It's fine...  :dunno:
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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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Definitely time for a new one  :thumb-up: My original MP2 screen is a bit like that, not quite as bad yet but going that way.
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Hope the next screen will have TV on  :lol:
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Hope the next screen will have TV on  :lol:

You could watch Neighbours, Home and Away, and play a gig, all at the same time :whoohoo!:
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Re: MP2 Display Fading
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I said flat. :)

Cannon plugs are round, it's flat, I was struggling for a word  :facepalm:

Aaaaah was thinking a cannon plug,how the hell he did this work  ;)

Usually the screens still works,it's the backlight that starts to fail after a while.
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Hope the next screen will have TV on  :lol:

You could watch Neighbours, Home and Away, and play a gig, all at the same time :whoohoo!:


or watching p*rn during gig !
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So here we go :
-first pix in front of
-second from above
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In my case,when I'm standing right in front of my mp2,screen is green with black squares, and if I move upper, It's fine...

Yup, that's what happened to mine. MJMP sent me a replacement he found. It has one funky character instead of the arrow, but other than that, it's fine. Adam McClean sent me his BLUE display some time ago, I have yet to install it in my MP-2.

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Hi everybody,  Maybe we did not identify symptoms of a dead  display screen ; In my case,when I'm standing right in front of my mp2,screen is green with black squares, and if I move upper, It's fine...  :dunno:

That's not a dead screen,but a contrast problem.Could be the lcd or the cable.Try to pull out the grey cable on both ends and put it back in.Maybe a bad contact.
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