Anti-static springs on Voyagers Message #4 Posted by Karl Schneider on 12 Feb 2006, 3:11 p.m., in response to message #3 by Randy
Hi, Randy --
You posted,
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The springs have *nothing* to do with your display problem as they are there to connect the front aluminum bezel and rear ledgend plate together to protect the device from electrostatic discharge.
I have a 1985 HP-11C that has a rectangular piece of the legend-bearing back plate missing, on the right side, between both rubber feet. This part of the plate covers one of those "spring holes", so one of those spring connectors is missing.
Does that spring provide anything more than redundancy -- i.e., a second, parallel connection between the "front metal" and the "back metal"?
Thanks,
-- KS
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