Heidenhain DRO fault

[Web Goblin]

If one of the displays is ok I would think your voltage supply would be fine, probably the same supply for both displays and encoders buit you should be able to check this with a decent multimeter. Voltage will be around 5.1Volts.
It could be one of the capacitors on the display board has died or one of the resistors has gone out of tolerance. I get this type of fault on some of our welding equipment displays regularly. Some boards also have an adjustment potentiometer as well for setting up the display and these die as well. It can also be the large driver chip on the board for the led blocks. You could easily swap these around to see if thats the problem or not. You can either attempt swapping out some components for some new ones, the parts wont be expensive, or you would need to get it to someone for repair and calibration.

[Lancer]

Thanks for the pointers guys, I will have a good look inside at the weekend and put my rusty electrickery skills to work, once again thanks for the advice I will post my findings.

[Robin Hewitt]

It could be one of the capacitors on the display board has died

I used to fix monitors with built in PSU's just by changing the electrolytics. They dry out after a few years, I even fixed a BMW once by changing one cap rather than the whole circuit board. It sounds like you have noise on the quadrature inputs, so WG could be spot on here. They save pennies by using aluminium rather than tantalum and limit the life time. Take photos before you rip them out if they haven't marked the polarity on the PCB.

[Lancer]

Result :) took the thing to pices and didnt spot anything obvious so before going any further I decided to clean the internal plug contacts. I put it all together and it works great must of been a bad contact on the internal X axis plug. This electrickery thing is easy :)