Emax

On mine, beneath where the backlight is mounted onto the pcb, it reads "In case of emergency break glass!" 

--- On Wed, 5/8/09, jammie <jammie.emma@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
> Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Hallo to the Emax community
> To: emax@...m
> Date: Wednesday, 5 August, 2009, 3:21 PM
> you have to remove the front panel
> pcb to access the trim pot its a shame that they never added
> it in software or add a trimpot nob on the front you can
> change it to a longer nob contol but would have to drill
> front panel
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: el macaco 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
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>   Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:34 PM
>   Subject: RE: [emax] Re: Hallo to the Emax community
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>     
>   Wait there is a contrast knob? Wow!
> 
>   Do you have to remove the PCB to get at it, or is
> there a trimmer hole?
> 
>   Thanks Jammie!
> 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>   From: jammie.emma@...
>   Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 03:02:18 +0100
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Hallo to the Emax community
> 
>   is it a keyboard or rack on the rack there is a
> negive voltage inverter so the screen can be seen from above
> you can adjust the contrast by turning the trim pot on the
> screen pcb
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: midimal_music 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> 
>   Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:03 AM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Hallo to the Emax community
> 
>   thanks for your reply jammie,i realize i should have
> done my research a bit better before asking that backlight
> question.
> 
>   acctually i remembered i had a backlight (just the
> plastic strip part) that i orderd some time ago from a guy
> in canada... and have had a similar experience to you trying
> to fit it. it lights up nice and blue but that's it,
> blank.......everything else sounds like it's working ok,
> disc loads up etc, just wondering how to proceed from
> here....???
> 
>   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com,
> "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
>   >
>   > no you cant but be wary i had a back light from
> the german company and the cathode and anode was backwards
> so it shon on the wrong side 
>   > 
>   > he told me to turn it round but i now that it
> dont work that way and i did as he said and it did not light
> at all 
>   > 
>   > i changed mine to a led but the problem is that
> its 7 mm bigger and so you dave to extend all the buttons so
> that they fit the panel i also had to extend the pins for
> the volume and data sliders
>   > 
>   > ----- Original Message ----- 
>   > From: midimal_music 
>   > To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> 
>   > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:07 PM
>   > Subject: [emax] Hallo to the Emax community
>   > 
>   > 
>   > Glad to have found this buzzing community after
> owning an emax for many years.I'm now in the process of
> looking into whether I can SCSI up my Emax 1 SE which is
> something I've thought about doing a few times but was
> previously thwarted due to it not having the 5380 chip.I'm
> hoping this can be solved now with a kit from Ted Summers.
>   > 
>   > I also need a back light and was wondering if
> anyone could point me in the direction of obtaining one,
> specific part number ? I saw an HD44780 20X4 Character LCD
> Display with LED backlight on ebay and was wondering if I
> could use that? 
>   > 
>   > Thanks for any advice on this.
>   > 
>   > Bob K
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