No, but before you give up on it do the following: With the unit out, short the power wires to ground of the clock for at least 1 minute, then try to power it up again.
No, but before you give up on it do the following: With the unit out, short the power wires to ground of the clock for at least 1 minute, then try to power it up again.
Well, I had a VFD auto clock from an 80's era car that died after the car was jumped and it was fixed using that technique. The failure was no display. So were a couple of other devices such as an HP calculator and someone's bike computer that was run across a carpet and got a jolt of static that were fixed the same way.
Electrical charges occasionally get trapped in CMOS parts and shorting power and ground allows those charges to get removed. I did read it somewhere and it may have been either a National Semiconductor book or when I took Solid State Physics. It's worth a shot.
Have you tried to reverse engineer the pin-out from the PCB? It's possible to use transparent copy paper to get a good idea of how the connections can be modified.
Were you planning on reusing this IC in another capacity?
Have you tried to reverse engineer the pin-out from the PCB? It's possible to use transparent copy paper to get a good idea of how the connections can be modified.
Were you planning on reusing this IC in another capacity?
I doubt much that Ford Motor Company can help you. If it's a proprietary IC for which no known substitute is available, then you are better off shopping at the auto yards for a similar radio with the same IC, much less than the IC itself!