LCD panels

[remp]

Zardoz

Option 1
You buy a desktop lcd monitor you have a known device with its published specifications at a particular price.
You buy it, you take it home, you attempt the modification and wreck it. Or you succeed.
There is no way to reduce your dollar input unless you can get you hands on an item that has been shop soiled, is being sold off cheap to make way for new models or you get one out of the paper or local promotions.

Option 2
You become knowledgable about laptop panels. Not a lot of people are knowledgable about laptop panels. Not at the deeper technical level. But say you do become knowledgable, that opens up a whole new world because I believe there are hundreds of panels just sitting on shelves because not many people know how to use them or what hardware is needed to drive them. Many spare part panels are being unused as people upgrade to better product. We have an example in this thread. Uvodee has scored a couple of panels but cannot yet drive them. It is likely he did not pay too much for them so his dollar input is low. Still have to modify them for projection but even though there is still a risk of failure its not so important if the panel is cheap.

Option 3
You buy a 10 - 15 year old projection panel off Ebay.
Advantages. All ready for projection. If it has composite video you dont need to buy a controller or use a computer to drive it. You still can if you want to if it has computer in. Many guys report projection panels look heaps better when driven from computer than the video input. Much better colours.



Compare prices USD

Option 1
Analogue Desktop lcd monitor 1024 x 768 $200 - $300 - $400
Plus risky modification
Plus a computer or controller to drive it

Option 2
Laptop lcd.
vga free or not very expensive
Svga $30 - $100
Xga $100 and up
Plus risky modification
Plus a computer or controller to drive it

Option 3
Old Projection panel
Vga $100 - $200
Svga $200 - $300
Xga $350 - $500
No risky modification
No computer or controller needed

Option 2 Has the most options for knowledgable DIY people.
Option 1 You can loose a lot
Option 3 Safest but old technology.

[zardoz]

There! Thats the fine point I couldn't put on it

Got a couple of design ideas I'm working on now for the housing, lamp mounted in the top of a "tube" shooting down ...then out. Kinda like hangin an OHP from the ceiling. Keeps all or some or most of the lamp heat above the LCD.

zardoz (category2 personality) sounds like a diagnosis......

[Lifter]

Good points, but option 2 requires a $200 controller where option 1 does not.

[remp]

What are you going to drive your option 1 modified lcd monitor with.

[declined]

800$ multimedia system

[zardoz]

Thats the thing...if I screw up a panel..it's only going to cost me another 100 bucks. And (another 2 week wait!) then I'm good to go again. If I screw up a brand new 15 inch LCD how fast is my wife going to let me just run out and buy another one to take apart and "honest honey...I know what went wrong last time..." 2 monitors poor'er and I'm staring at the better part of a Grand. This way I can go through 4 or 5 before I get close to that. I'm going to use cheap and dirty till I see it will work and work well then I'll look for the best panel it can run

I read on one of the threads where some clown took his monitor apart...decided he didnt want to risk it...put it back together then took it back to the store for a refund. One day he will buy something that has had simmilar done to it...that might humble him a touch.

zardoz

[Rekr]

I dont know if this should be a separate thread, but I would like to see who has any luck taking apart analog lcd tft monitors, and using them besides the guy with the dell 15 inch, preferably people telling prices they paid and brands and stuff, I was looking at a 200 dollar 15 inch to maybe buy and take apart that i saw on UBID.

Rekr

[zardoz]

Not a bad idea Personally I dont see a problem with listing them in this thread. I mean once you pull the mask and back off of them they are just "LCD panels" with all the gear needed to run them right?
But you may also get more interest generated from those that seek that path by starting a new thread. Sort of like a "Good monitor/Bad monitor" thread?

zardoz

[uvodee]

i read in Yahoo groups that a guy is using this lcd 2"

http://www.made-in-china.com/user/?f...rod_id=jY3NzAN

China origin Sony product.

[Lifter]

Originally posted by remp
What are you going to drive your option 1 modified lcd monitor with.

A regular VGA card.