From: legg@nospam.magma.ca   
      
   On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:01:17 -0800 (PST), "Peter W."   
    wrote:   
      
   >If you had done your Consumer Reports back in the day, you would have found   
   that Sharp has notoriously frequent display issues. With this in mind, you   
   might contact Sharp for suggestions. They know their reputation, and are   
   counting on the consumers not    
   knowing.   
   >   
   >Peter Wieck   
   >Melrose Park, PA   
      
   Peter,   
      
   I don't buy microwave ovens, I just fix them.   
      
   This model of microwave R21LV has a few variants   
   which have been mfred since before Y2K.   
      
   It's service manual illustrates a panel with a   
   completely different display on the control board,   
   possibly even LED, vs the LCD variety present here.   
      
   I've got nothing but respect for Sharp stuff. My   
   pocket calculator from the 90s has been through the   
   laundry twice, without permanent damage. It has an   
   early type of LCD display.   
      
   I've seen LCDs that have obvious damage/discoloration   
   and flakey elements before, but never something that   
   was permanently, uniformly dark.   
      
   There's no carbon press strip to degrade, just 15   
   solderable in-line pins.   
      
   I would suspect the controller chip, or its ceramic   
   resonator, but the chip seems to be performing normally.   
   The unit runs.   
      
   RL   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)