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| DOA KDS Radius RAD-5 - 15" LCD Display . . . | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-03-20 18:54:23 . . . came from a reputable, concerned seller, picture of it working in test mode in auction, shipped promptly in good faith, but arrived with a problem . . .   . . . it doesn't power up . . . Symptoms: Good, Solid Green LED indication on the AC Adapter . . . DMM says 12.26VDC for 12VDC rated lump-on-a-rope in question . . . Plug it into receptacle dongled from VGA Connector . . . nice design that . . . but! LED indicator dims immediately, very noticeably and begins flashing at about 3times/sec . . . No surprise . . . no powerup of, nor power indication on, this cherry (four mouse rating radius logo'd advert sticker intact, if not perfectly so) LCD for my radius collection! 🙁 Let me guess . . . CAPS? :?: | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2012-03-20 20:23:12 I bought one of these monitors new years ago (AUD $880!! My most expensive monitor of all time), very reliable apart from a "grey screen" fault that comes up from time to time and is fixed by switching the monitor on and off repeatedly. It could apparently be fixed/returned to Radius (and I did read of a repair somewhere online once), but I was happy enough with the monitor so didn't bother, although the faulty did get worse over time. Due to the monitor's age, I'd suspect caps first. JB | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2012-03-21 20:33:25 these KDS monitors were bad for this very same thing. I had this exact one that did weird stuff like this, and eventually sometimes would power on with lines only. But sometimes it worked great. I recapped it and checked all the voltages of the DC-DC circuit inside the mainboard and it was fine. still had the same problem. So i checked out the inverter, i replaced the inverter and never had a problem again. Strange, but true. inverter failure. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-03-21 20:56:17 Maybe Sunday I'll rip this thing apart, too busy in the AM and too tired tonight . . . besides, I've got newer toys to play with at this point. This is the one I really dig on . . .  . . . it interpolates all the fixed freq/resolutions the IIsi and RCPII/IIsi put out to full screen, except Portrait. Rad-5b Model, too bad it's just a little bit too dark to be PowerBook Gray, but it has the radius logo and it ROCKS!!!!! | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2012-03-22 20:29:15 Well as long as they stay working, they are GREAT monitors. I will say that. Speaking of LCDs, I have an old white vintage LCD that came from the trash, i would say a late 90s 15" NEC LCD when they first started coming out. Works fine. someone threw it away... crazy aint it? heavy sucker for a 15" LCD monitor. it would fit perfectly with the late beige macs from the G3 era. Just need to hide the NEC logo and stick an apple logo there. ;-) | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2012-03-22 22:29:06 I actually sold my RAD-5 monitor, was kind of happy to see it go after years of pressing the on/off button repeatedly before a picture was displayed. Like you techknight, I got a white 15" NEC LCD from work, late 90's which matches all my beige 68K/PPC Macs quite nicely 🙂 | |
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