Mark, very nice looks like new.
My ID-5001 is as follows
I bought my ID-5001 off eBay from the USA in 2012 and had it shipped to the UK. This was sold as a non-worker.
1st thing to do was to change the power transformer setting to cope with the UK 240v supply, that is when I discovered how bad it really was inside.
I can only assume that the unit had suffered a lighting strike as all of the capacitors connected to the wind direction inputs had exploded.
Checking the IC’s revealed that more that 75% of the IC’s were dud. Fortunately I found a company on eBay (Little diode) who could supply these. The biggest problem was the 3 LCD driver IC’s were also dud. These are 80 pin soldered to the PCB jobs. Looking on “You tube” I found a video on how to remove these from the board without causing too much damage.
Now it was time to address the back light problem, I removed all the existing wiring and depowered the transistors and replaced this with a LED arrangement.
Final check and then the big power up – All worked nicely expect the display was not “blue” but “orange” . I removed the LCD screen and found that the protective plastic cover had aged, I carefully removed this and replaced it with substitute item then powered up again and all is good. A brilliant blue display.
The unit did not come with the weather Boom – I have constructed my own from the schematic in the construction manual using the IR LEDs and Transistors, I already had two temperature sensor which work fine with the unit.
I am currently converting the weather boom to wireless working using two “xBee” radio transmitters and a Raspberry Pi. Progress is slow but I am slowly getting there, but that can be saved for another post.
Pictures attached - Station/ Weather Boom & xBee interface.
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