Good day all
Seeing Matt's topical post prompted the following.
My beloved 34C has lost the leftmost unit of the LED display so negative numbers look the same as positive numbers (it's the display rather than the CHS key as simple arithmetic confirms). From what I've read here it seems that it is normally the right digit rather than the left that goes as a result of battery leakage.
I can't be certain but think it went just after my bag in which it was suffered a knock when I was jolted walking along a train corridor. However, judging by the weight (6.5 oz) I think mine is a soldered unit so unlikely to be a loose connection. Bad solder?
I havn't plucked up the courage to open up the unit yet although having removed the two screws in the battery compartment I can see that the threaded part that one screw goes into has been built up with resin so someone has been there before.
Any thoughts?
I'm guessing the only option is to try and locate a donor unit for the display as I assume that the chances of finding a replacement display are somewhat less than getting Captain Zener (ah... the good old days!) to say a kind word about the 33S (I see from an earlier post that even Randy has no Spice spares).
At least it is livable with as all the rest of the functions are ok - it's just a pain having to do an extra step to check if the result is negative or positive.
Regards
James
Edited: 5 Apr 2012, 3:32 a.m.