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Date:         Sun, 7 Mar 2004 21:34:09 EST
Reply-To:     Oxroad@AOL.COM
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From:         Jeff Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Green digital clock (from Mars)
Comments: To: BenTbtstr8@aol.com
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In a message dated 3/7/2004 11:14:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM writes:

> That sound like a gray area... I always call them yellowish amber. Isn't it > just a bulb or LED that lights it up? I seem to recall my GTI has LCD with > green backlighting. LCD is usually gray but cab be lit in different colors. >

Ben-

The method to light the digital clock is pretty interesting, I've gotta say. Basically there is just a regular little dash light bulb behind the digital clock. But the digital clock is not transparent or even translucent because the computer circuit board, transistors, and chips are behind the LCD display. No light can pass through from behind. So, on each end of the digital clock read out there are clear plastic prisms that jut out behind the clock and grab the light and deliver the light through the LCD display. The color of the digital clock, as near as I can tell, is intigrated in the clock display and unchangable.

FWIW Jeff 83.5 Westy LA,CA


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