Same thing happened to mine about 5 years ago. Just be careful installing the jumper and new lytic. Mine still works great (knock on wood, or knock on kenwood) Mark N5KAE ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jerry Holcomb <jlholcomb at cableone.net> > To: "Ed Swiderski, KU4BP" <ku4bp at triad.rr.com>; Kenwood at mailman.qth.net > Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 5:29:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Kenwood] Display gone on my 850 >> An electrolytic capacitor designated as C18 on the display board has leaked >and possibly damaged the traces underneath it. It's a fairly frequent >posting on kenwood 850 sites. I inspected mine yesterday. Its > not hard to get at nor replace. 73s Jerry > N0XWR -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ed > Swiderski, KU4BP" <> href="mailto:ku4bp at triad.rr.com">ku4bp at triad.rr.com> Sent: Tuesday, > March 23, 2010 4:18 PM To: <> href="mailto:Kenwood at mailman.qth.net">Kenwood at mailman.qth.net> Subject: > [Kenwood] Display gone on my 850 >> Had a very strange problem > happen to my 850 today. The display has gone > completely blank. The radio > still works fine but I have no idea where I > am. > Any ideas where > to look to fix it. >> Ed KU4BP >>> ______________________________________________________________ > Kenwood > mailing list > Home: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/kenwood > Help: > http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:> ymailto="mailto:Kenwood at mailman.qth.net" > href="mailto:Kenwood at mailman.qth.net">Kenwood at mailman.qth.net >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Kenwood > mailing list Home: > target=_blank >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/kenwood Help: > href="http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm" target=_blank > >http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:> ymailto="mailto:Kenwood at mailman.qth.net" > href="mailto:Kenwood at mailman.qth.net">Kenwood at mailman.qth.net This > list hosted by: > >http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: > href="http://www.qsl.net/donate.html" target=_blank > >http://www.qsl.net/donate.html