Very dim digital readout

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Bulb ? cap ?

Djk: Bulb would be so easy, but schematic doesn't say bulb and I dont believe its thick enough to house even a tiny bulb.
Mooly: That story didn't end too well on the marantz display BTW.

I have found that the face plate is tinted a very deep red, making it 2 X hard to get it to be bright. Maybe they put in clear in the middle after finding out its dim on later models. No idea.
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:) Lol, in post 22 he said it fixed it... if the original cap was OK the display wouldn't have altered.

Anyway caps are a big problem... but you really need to see the circuit. For example some Aiwa music centres (Aiwa, part of Sony at the time... hmmm) used two unequal value electroylitics of 33 and 22uf from memory and they failed like they were going out of fashion. These were used to derive the display volts.

The problem is knowing how bright they are when new. Signs of a duff display can be unequal rightness of segments, them looking brighter directly where the heaters pass over them.
 
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