NAD 705 Display issue - NOT BACKLIGHT!

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Hi all.
I have recently got my hands on an NAD 705.
It had a backlight issue which I fixed in no time.
But now I notice the display is fading after about 1 second and it's also jittery (some segments sometimes appear randomly?)
Has anyone ever came across this failure?
Is it the LCD itself?
Can it be the LCD Driver? (Sanyo LC7582)

Please help... 🙏
 
Hi liquias,

This is a shot in the dark, but I would give special scope scrutiny to display pins 1 and 44 (COM1 and COM2) and their path to driver pins 54 and 53, SM page 23. I suspect they should present as a low frequency square wave.

Good luck!
 

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OK, I scoped pins 1 and 44, just like you suggested.
pin 1 sits steady at 2.56 DCV (Strange voltage?) and pin 44 is (also steady) at 5DCV.
No frequency, at all.

Do you think this implements the LC7582 is at fault?
maybe the LCD itself is shorting it? How can I tell?
 
Found it!
It was the innocent looking 47k resistor (R725) on the LCD board. It was reading completely open circuit!
A new resistor, and the display is like new again!

Thank you for everyone who took interest in this issue. 🙏
 
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looking at the datasheet of the LC7582, it makes sense. this resistor (and paired capacitor) is needed to determine the internal clock frequency. when it went "open circuit" the internal clock frequency went to zero. The LC7582 "froze" and was unable to do it's job.

Hope this helps someone else too in the future.

Cheers,
Liquias.