Extending Power cable?

3EB · Post by **3EB** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 1:57 pm

Just got my LCD 2041-v-wb with power cable. Since I want to mount this outside of case, can i simply cut add extension wires (cut cable and solder new ones) so that the power cable is longer?

Post by **Henry** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 2:25 pm

Sure, why not... you might want to maybe get a external power supply instead. We use cheap 120V AC to 9V DC power converters here, and then just cut the end, and use a floppy power connector and solder it together... then you have a nice external power mod.

3EB · Post by **3EB** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 2:54 pm

Thanks Henry.

I just hooked it up now to make sure it worked and am very impressed with it! I also have a parallel lcd and this one blows it out of the water.

Post by **Henry** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:04 pm

Music to my ears...

hope you post pics when your done

even better if you wrote a small guide for our Guide section... up to you...

3EB · Post by **3EB** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:08 pm

Pics...of course.

What kind of guide you looking for? Softare setup or hardware setup?

Post by **Henry** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:23 pm

Guide to powering your LCD externaly... some pics on how you did it, step by step process... simple really... like the MBM one I did.

3EB · Post by **3EB** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:23 am

What I did was use a cat5 network cable to extend the power cable (cable is 8 feet or so). This was easier since I already had it available. Do you still want a small guide on doing it this way? The power converter would have been way cooler but I just didn't have any available.

Post by **Henry** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 12:04 pm

if you would that would be great

3EB · Post by **3EB** » Sat Oct 26, 2002 8:07 pm

Just put this together. Let me know what you think. Not much to it though.

http://extend.no-ip.com