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I have a faulty 7 seg display which I’d like to replace. Is there an RS or Farnell part number for the correct type of display (size, pin pitch, common cathode or anode etc) Thanks.

Quick update … all seems to be working fine now and loads all the correct desktops on a reboot even with the fixtures and Playback/cue stack loaded. Must have got something corrupted internally 🤷🏼‍♂️🫤

@KWR88 … yep, it’s holding its date and time OK and no error messages on booting the desk. It appears to be working as expected now, but will see once I load the fixtures back.

@Edward Z88 I hope it isn’t as I only changed it in January as a precaution 🤣

@Edward Z88 Thanks for the information and I thought I was going a bit mad because that’s how I thought it worked and would have expected it to work. However I’ve just checked again and nope, it wouldn’t save the desktops and in fact after shuffling screens into desktops, when rebooted it loaded to a completely empty suite of Desktops, even Desktop 1. So I factory reset the desk and now it’s working as expected again. Fortunately we’ve only just started for the spring production so nothing lost that 20 mins of repatching won’t fix! Thanks for your help.

Is there a way that window assignments to the various desktop tabs can be saved? Running 7.14.2 It’s a bit frustrating after setting up say Colour Pallets on Monitor 2 and Effects on 3 (as an example) that on desk reboot they’re all unassigned again. Thanks.

@KWR88 given my poor skills with painting anything, I’d like to explore all possibilities before I screw the desk up more than it is. I’d have a crack at it if I had a spare panel to use first. Would appreciate if you could check to see if you do have a spare panel of whatever type available 🙏 Thank you for the help and advice so far.

Hi @KWR88 … many thanks for the info. I’ll have a think about the best way to do this and may have a chat with my car body repair friend to see if he could do it in his spray booth. I’d hate to make things worse than they already are. Any suggestions for removal of the old lacquer or is it just a case of scraping it off with a blade? Edward’s message above seemed to imply there may be an option to replace the panel? Are there any spares available do you know?

@iank99 Oh, thanks for that. The solution though does look a bit drastic and there are more LCDs on the newer leap frog to have to deal with. I’m not sure how well re-lacquering would work, but I do have a friend who owns a car body shop so perhaps it’s something he could tackle. I’d prefer to try it on a scrap panel first though! I guess in original manufacture it was a cheaper solution for Zero88 to use a one-piece front and just lacquer over the windows rather than have separate and possibly replaceable acrylic windows, but knowing the potential abuse these desks could take, that would have been preferable in the long term.

@Edward Z88 … many thanks, Will do 👍🏼

Thanks Ian, I guessed that would be the case. It doesn’t make the display completely unreadable but I certainly find it on the Playbacks easier to quickly identify the right playback by the tag in the LCD. It certainly looks like it’s a lacquer that’s peeling off. It’s an extremely thin layer and I had wondered if it would be possible to re-spray the windows it the correct ‘stuff’ was available. I’d be happy to stick a Solution front panel on if one was available but I guess that’s not an option either. Cheers for the reply.

I have a Leap Frog 48 I use for the local dramatics group - it doesn’t get much use really, but I’ve noticed that a couple of the LCD windows have started to go a bit hazy, especially the one above the submasters/playbacks. On close inspection it looks like the ‘shiny’ surface is delaminating/peeling off and it leaves a matt surface underneath which makes the LCD blurry. Has anyone else experienced this and if so found a way to restore the clarity of the LCD window(s) where this has happened? I am guessing it’s impossible or very expensive to get a replacement front panel? It’s not a major issue but it can make reading the text below difficult.