Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Posts: 26

OK - replaced the batteries for the first time today in my Blue VDX. As I took off the cover and took out the batteries I noticed what looks like initials written in white out (and they arent mine ). Apparently I did not notice this when I first got the unit, probably cause I was in such a rush. These initials, "TD", are underneith the batteries hidden from view if the batteries are in. The other pair of initials are written on the actual battery compartment cover. These initials appear to be "T2". I am fairly certain that white out was used to write these also. Anyone have any idea as to what this could mean? Perhaps it is something that is done during manufacturing, but it almost seems more likely that someone branded the unit as theirs for easier recovery in case of theft because these scrawlings were DEFINITELY not made by a machine (they are much to sloppy and not uniform). Any ideas?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Midland, Texas
Posts: 231

Weird indeed!

Is this a new unit, or a replacement unit for a returned Visor?

I have a replacement unit, and mine has the letters "FT" in "white-out" under the lower battery. Hadn't noticed until your post.

Anyone else?


tyler

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

My visor is a new unit, and it has "T3" inside the battery cover.
They seem to be machine printed, by a sloppy machine with sopping ink.
They do look like white-out, but they have a hard edge inside the slop which appears to come from the edge of a stamp.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

Just a thought... perhaps they are some sort of final inspection code? You know, the last pair of eyes to see it before it's packaged.

Maybe others can post what they find inside their battery compartments (wishing I had my own battery compartment to look at).

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MarkEagle

Happiness is a Vis r...

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 12

My IVDx has T5.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Posts: 26

tyler: no, this was a new unit.

I guess the problem is solved. Apparently these were machine made, or . It just kinda freaked me out, because I thought I might've gotten a refurburished unit instead of a new one. Thanks .

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 97

I agree with winchell.

My IVDx has FT1

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Vicksburg, MI
Posts: 50

My OVDx has FT5 in the battery compartment. Nothing on the battery cover.

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Rick Bailey
eFizz.com

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 33

FT6 on mine...weird

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

FT6 on my green Visor.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Beaverton, OR USA
Posts: 87

FT6 on my standard.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

FT2 in my graphite VDX(ABAEB38900903)

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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Stony Brook, NY, USA
Posts: 35

FT8 on my Graphite VDx

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 219

MT7 on my IVDx

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 17

FT1 in my GVDx - the + and the - and also written with white paint in this fasion.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 195

Oh no...mine says...REDRUM!!! ;-)

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: California
Posts: 108

My battery cover says F3, and the F looks like it was written in Graffiti! I don't wan't to take my batterys out right now, but I remember that the + and - are painted in too. I have a new BVX.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Deltona, FL USA
Posts: 16

Hi,

I have some thing, maybe a side ways 3 in sloppy white paint or ink under the batteries. There is a sticker with a bar code (with a bunch of letters and numbers unser the bar code) on the inside of the battery cover....

Oh.... it's an IVdx

Regards,
Rob

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 50

noooooo!!!! my battery cover says t3 and my visor says ft1. oh well

Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 10

My IVD has F16 behind the batteries and MT6 on the battery cover.

If you look above the right corner of the battery cover in the visor(for those of you with clear backings) does it say REV A? Mine does. Does anyone have a different revision #? Just wondering

-Jenner
IVD, Green Stylus, backup mod on order