On 24 Sep 97 at 1:02, John Payson wrote:

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>
> Running a display with somewhat excessive drive voltage may cause
> long term damage to the "dark" pixels, but displays are remarkably
> hardy when it comes to AC voltage (a large DC voltage, on the other
> hand, can destroy a display quickly and even a fairly small one can
> destroy it slowly).  A friend of mine told me he saw a company
> revitalize some custom LCD's that had some internal shorts (the
> legends were so small that some of the conductive material flaked
> and bridged) by connecting the displays (with the driver chips
> REMOVED!) to raw AC120.  The shorts were instantly burned off,
> leaving the rest of the display functional.  According to my friend,
> the batch of displays had only about 15% yield off the factory
> floor, but almost all of the "bad" displays were revitalized with
> this technique.

GAH!  15% yield and techniques like that?  Quick, tell me the
company, so I never buy stuff there!!
MikeS
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