James Sweet wrote:

No, it just has all the pins attached along the edges of the panel.
They're sort of crimped on, then covered with a clear layer of what
appears to be some type of hard conformal coating. I've noticed that
sometimes I can get a bad segment to come on by tweaking the display a
little, but only while applying some force. It appears to be bad
connections, probably where the pins connect to the panel. The pins are
soldered into the PCB, so I know the problem's not there.




Bummer, sounds like your initial diagnosis of a bad display is definitly
correct, it'd be worth checking surplus places like All Electronics, HSC,
Alltronics, and a number of similar places.



Yeah, I'll keep checking around and see what I can find. If the display
didn't need to have the days on it, I would probably be able to adapt a
genereic display without too much difficulty. However, those days are
very important to the operation of the controller, at least to get it to
water when it should!