Doepfer

HI Bakis

> the exact same happens to one of my two doepfer
> vu-meters lights too!
> I just tap the plastic screen a bit and the LIGHT
> TURNS ON AGAIN.
> ALTHOUGH, for the last months, I didn't have any
> problems at all with this light.
The light bulbs in voltmeter are steady point of failure. Since my first 
  cassette deck in 1974 all lightbulbs in the meters of each piece of 
gear I own failed. This is because they basically overheat: the bulb is 
held by a very narrow rubber gaiter, which shall prevent that the light 
comes to the rearside. But this rubber gaiter makes the socket end of 
the glassbody to be overheated, while the head can cool. This causes 
micro breaks in the glass body, through which oxigen can enter the bulbs 
body and in consequence the filament will burn away.

They only chance is to replace the light bulbs by ultra bright LEDs.

Florian