Monsoon Radio Display Light

[akimmel]

The digital display on my 2000 Firebird Monsoon Radio had it's backlight go out. The radio works fine and the information is there if you shine a flashlight on it. Does anyone have any experience fixing something like this? I'm pretty handy and electronically oriented - but I don't want to tear everything out without a clue about success.
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[freqz]

I've got the same problem here as well. Have you found a fix for this yet ?

[CWW17]

i had the same problem.. all you can do is buy another radio... i ripped mine apart and found the little bulb, then went to the dealer to ask for a bulb they said they didnt have it and could not get it...

[freqz]

I've done a little more searching and found that there is a bulb, and a company here in michigan Specmo (I think) sells them. But I'm going to pull this out probably over the weekend and I'm sure I can find some bulb that will work. Or install some led's in there with some resistors.

[carloyea]

i actually took out my radio and found the bulb. i replaced it with another bulb from radioshack but apparantly im using one that requires a smaller amount of current, which causes it to light up when the car is off. i guess the radio has a small amount of current running through it that still lights up this bulb. did you guys ever find a solution to yalls problems?

[goldz28]

This thread is 4 years old and was brought back 2 years ago. So please refer to the date in the upper left hand part of the post for the dates of the post. DO NOT BRING BACK DEAD THREADS

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