Quoted from Clizifer:
so your saying the display itself is repairable? im guessing i could just buy the new display and fix the old one down the road if i wanted to. what would you do at this point?
Well, one way or another the power supply had a problem. I suspect if you had sent it out for that voltage issue, the capacitors would also had been changed at the same time. Pretty sure that would easily been a $100 repair cost. So having a replacement Xpin is a good 2nd choice, and what I would have done because of 2 different issues. It is pretty time consuming changing all the parts needed to get that power supply working. Good thing now is, you could just sell that original board and get some kind of money back from it. Just not sure what it is worth.
To me it seems repairable, as I had repaired one in the past for this reason. That TMNT had a Rottendog and had failed for 62v, so I had to repair the power supply and the DMD. Seems the same case here, even though you have an original power supply in it at the time.
That will depend on what you want to do. I know there are a few options.
-Send your DMD in for repair. Need to check around to see who actually will work on it before just sending it somewhere.
-Place a wanted to by ad for a used working one. I seen working ones for about $150
-The LED display you know about already
-There is actual 128x16 color display out, but I don't know how user friendly that is nor the cost.
-Wait for ColorDMD to come out. Unsure when this could be.
If you end up buying a DMD, of what ever type, you could even sell the old DMD.