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Expired Faulty Stern DMD

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mark9

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This is from a Metallica, and was fully working with no dots out until I stupidly plugged the color dmd cable into it :oops:, therefore supplying 12v instead of 5.

No component damage visible but something must have fried as it’s now dead.

Hopefully an easy fix for someone in the know, or a set of spare segments.

£60 posted.
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How on earth did you manage that? :eek: I'd never make that mistake....never :oops:.

Seriously, this must have happened to lots of people, I did the exact same thing. The colordmd people stupidly used the same connector, so its very easily done 2 years down the road when you remove a colordmd and refit a stern LED display, completely forgetting that the colordmd came with its own power cable ( with the same 3pin idc connector as the stern display connector )
 
It’s color dmd’s way of slowly forcing led segment displays out of existence! (That wouldn’t be a bad thing to be honest).
 
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