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Well, I sent you an email through the system here, but never heard back......
But I am ok with the slight increase. I am also nearly moved to the new house, so will be ready by the time you get the next kits made. Mail has been changed, etc.
Hopefully we can get in contact. I have no idea if you replied or not.
Well, I sent you an email through the system here, but never heard back......
But I am ok with the slight increase. I am also nearly moved to the new house, so will be ready by the time you get the next kits made. Mail has been changed, etc.
Hopefully we can get in contact. I have no idea if you replied or not.
Hi,
I answered to your email, and assumed you had received my answer.
I just transferred it to your backup email address.
Please confirm if you received it. If you did not, just send me another email stating which email address I should use to contact you.
Location: France
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Hi! Thank you, I got that one and replied.
Marc
I saw this post and kit. Looks very interesting and with a wee bit of work I think I can do the modification. The LCD in my 5000 cannot be replaced according to my local B&O repair man. I love the ability of programming the unit with the 5000 and currently there is a bit of guesswork with the LCD panel and the manual because I can see limited pixels. I only have one 5000 remote, what would be the shipping to Toronto,ON Canada M4E 2P7?
Hello,
Shipping to Ontario would be about 30€.
I'm still waiting for the delivery of more E-paper display before I can produce more kits, hopefully that should happen in the coming days !
I'll post here when I have more kits ready to ship
Location: France
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I have moved in the meantime, and am now ready for a kit whenever you make a few more.
Ok, I've now installed the kit in one of my for-parts remotes. And it looks great! 🤒
The installation instructions (linked above) were good. The kit relies on a new PCB being soldered on top of the old one and I had issues with one or two contacts not making it all the way. With the help of the creator I was able to find the issue and fix it (I ended up using one extra jumper wire as I couldn't get the RST line making good contact).
My remote needed some work as the battery holder (a flimsy design to start with) was slightly damaged as was the mount post associated with it.
The remote I worked on had it's LCD flat-flex already ripped off so it was beyond repair, and a perfect candidate for installing the kit. I have one more physically much nicer BL5000, which has most of it's original display still working (link, although it did lost some lines some time after the repair). That one I would not tear apart, but with any other BL5000 with already messed up LCD (cable) I wouldn't hesitate to consider this kit!
I must admit the BL5000 is not one of my favourite remotes, but I hope enough people with skill and gear can get these kits from pilatomic and get at least some of those dying BL5000s back to life!
Most of the process is already shown here in this thread, but here are couple of shots:
The old LCD cable (left), the LCD controller IC and some other parts are removed from the Beolink's PCB using a hot air station:
Then the e-Ink board is soldered on top of the board:
The solder points on the e-Ink board make contact with the pads on the old PCB, and only the VBAT jumper wire (top) is needed. I had issues with one the contacts not getting thrue, so I added an extra jumper wire (bottom wire) as I didn't want to remove the whole thing and risk breaking off pads:
With heat-gun the original top-glass panel can be separated from the old LCD panel and re-used with the new e-ink display. The result looks very nice! It's see-thrue as original, but I do consider this a worthy replacement!
Hello,
Thank you Lausvi for this nice review !
It has been quite a long time, much longer than I expected, but I finally took delivery of the E-papers I ordered.
I now have 6 kits ready to ship and not reserved yet, and enough components to produce 5 more.
These kits are completely identical to those shipped previously.
I updated the installation manual to include the lessons learned from the first batch ( the main addition is a procedure to check that all signals are properly wired, that emerged from a nice email exchange with Lausvi ).
See here for the new installation manual :
Location: France
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