Doepfer

In a message dated 5/31/2008 9:39:12 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
rrooyyccee@yahoo.com writes:

i  would like to replace the bulb in my doepfer voltemeter module, but am not 
 sure how to do so. 





royce,
i haven`t had a bulb fail but one of my 2 units has a marginal connection  
and won`t turn on sometimes until i tap the faceplate firmly - try that, maybe  
your bulb is still okay - 
best,
dave
 



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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.

best regards,    :-)
Bakis.


--- davevosh@aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 5/31/2008 9:39:12 AM Pacific
> Standard Time,  
> rrooyyccee@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> i  would like to replace the bulb in my doepfer
> voltemeter module, but am not 
>  sure how to do so. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> royce,
> i haven`t had a bulb fail but one of my 2 units has
> a marginal connection  
> and won`t turn on sometimes until i tap the
> faceplate firmly - try that, maybe  
> your bulb is still okay - 
> best,
> dave
>  
> 
> 
> 
> **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers.
> Watch "Cooking with 
> Tyler Florence" on AOL Food.      
>
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> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
>

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

> 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.
>
> best regards, :-)
> Bakis.

If you have a technician available who is able to solder the bulbs to the
sockets (very carefully, a small soldering iron is required) the problem
will disappear. It seems that after a while the connection between the bulbs
and the bulb socket becomes poor (probably because of corossion or
oxidization).

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer