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Title: Replacing Zaurus SL-5500 Frontlight
Post by: Anonymous on December 21, 2003, 05:55:27 pm

I dropped my Zaurus...Oh no!

Now the frontlight doesn\'t work, and the display is very dim.

Is there any way to get a replacement frontlight without shelling out more than the Z cost in the first place?

Title: Replacing Zaurus SL-5500 Frontlight
Post by: soycap on December 26, 2003, 11:59:29 pm

I would look on ebay for a Z with a broken screen, but a working backlight.  I think the white bar in this pic it the backlight:

[img]http://www.tekprosystems.com/images/zaurus/zguts9sm.JPG\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

I would try opening the Z first to see if I could easily replace the light before I put out the money though.  There a some more internal pics on my Z site which may help:

www.tekprosystems.com/zaurus

Title: Replacing Zaurus SL-5500 Frontlight
Post by: oreo on December 27, 2003, 11:19:51 am

Could be a simple loose wire that you can re-connect to the fluorescent bulb.