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[DorsetRatt]

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.

aha ... so there was a blue display ... does anyone know how this was done please? Which is probably my way of asking ... where can I get one from?

[tomy]

Ok, I open my mp2, unplegged the whole thing, try to clean connector as best as I can... still the same !

[Kim]

I know these particular style of displays have some kind of adjustment located in a menu to optimize the light/dark which actually seems to be all about the viewing angle.  I've seen it on other things, but I don't recall ever seeing that menu on the MP-2.   

If you are seeing blocks instead of characters, try looking at the display from different up/down angles.  If you find a clear view, it's probably just that adjustment needed.  But is there an actual adjustment available in an MP-2 menu somewhere that I'm not aware of?

[tomy]

Hi Kim, if you take a  look closer to the pix, I also have an sgx ; it's just easy to find, setting menu and you get the adjustement(and you are right, It's called "angle display") without manual, but I didn't  find for mp2

[MarshallJMP]

The mp-2 has a fixed LCD contrast.

[rnolan]

There's no adjustment in the MP2 menus, as MJMP says it's fixed. Now a blue display is slightly inviting, though I don't mind the green just as long as I can read it when I need to.  Basically, they go off over time, the fix is put in a new one when it becomes so bad you can't see enough anymore, but by then you've probably got it programmed and it matters less...

Unless you do what I just did documenting the factory presets for Soloist...  I rarely look at the display of my live MP2 so it's not a big deal.

[tomy]

Well Yes Richard, It's just about confort. I was, first of all, asking if it could be ajustable and if someone else experiment that, with our gear getting older this is the kind of issues we are going in front of

[rnolan]

Hey tg, yeah the display in my original MP2 is slowly fading, it's not unusable but it's going off... It hasn't been a big issue as I don't need to see it much, but when I do (sometimes need to see it, it's a pain). I have a new display, just haven't put it in yet, I'm also poised to do the noise mod (21 caps and the 913 resistor..).

I don't know of any other way to fix it besides change out the display, there isn't any menu option to help (unfortunately), is there a possible mod ? to change contrast

[tomy]

You know  I just ordered to Mj a  New display +  noise mod ,s soI'll let you know

[MarshallJMP]

Most LCD's have a contrast pin and you can hookup a pot to regulate the contrast.Ada didn't do this and grounded this pin,so you get a fixed contrast.

[tomy]

Most LCD's have a contrast pin and you can hookup a pot to regulate the contrast.Ada didn't do this and grounded this pin,so you get a fixed contrast.

OR NOT ! without instructions, I can f#@$ed the whole thing up !

[rnolan]

Does grounding the pin set it at Max contrast ? In which case putting in a pot would just make it dimmer ?

[MarshallJMP]

Well that's a very good question.

[MarshallJMP]

Did some digging around and it seems it's a bit depending who makes them.

[rnolan]

Interesting... so the ones you get, what do they do ?, this is a bit academic BTW, basically you need to be able to read the display, even faded in my original MP2 it's still usable (so far) but I have a replacement ready to go (thanks MJMP  )