Not more colours... (!)

Post by **Cheese** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 7:26 am

just to complete the spectrum I bought a very expensive LED... and damn it looks ugly

(The led is a little too bright, hence the halo effect being a little worse than normal)

Cheers,

r.

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relix · Post by **relix** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 11:38 am

doesn't look so bad, I even like it! It would be cool on some places, anyway, you tried it, and now the world can see the MO LCD's in every color!

jodynicH · Post by **jodynicH** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 2:40 pm

looks really nice, maybe one day here soon ill get the balls to do that to mine

Post by **Henry** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 4:44 pm

On 2002-01-21 11:38, relix wrote:
doesn't look so bad, I even like it! It would be cool on some places, anyway, you tried it, and now the world can see the MO LCD's in every color!

No kidding!

Thlayli · Post by **Thlayli** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 10:23 pm

Ok, I'm fairly new at this but I have a question about this fairly neat modification to your lcd:
Did you just replace the led backlight and thats it? If so, most of those LEDs require different voltages to work optimally, did you have to mess with any of the resistors?
Or am I way off base? Thanks!

Post by **Cheese** » Tue Jan 22, 2002 9:09 am

On 2002-01-21 22:23, Thlayli wrote:
Ok, I'm fairly new at this but I have a question about this fairly neat modification to your lcd:
Did you just replace the led backlight and thats it? If so, most of those LEDs require different voltages to work optimally, did you have to mess with any of the resistors?
Or am I way off base? Thanks!

The mod is all documented here http://www.icehardware.net/guides/col_lcd_mod/ - well kindof. You're right in worrying about the led voltages, though all the led's above are between 3.3V and 4V so it doesn't really matter. I used a small preset resistor so I could change it if I needed to and wired on a fan connector to plug the leds in quickly and easily...

Obviously when you've chosen a colour you can wire in a normal 5% resistor and solder the led in place.

Cheers,

r.

Thlayli · Post by **Thlayli** » Tue Jan 22, 2002 11:07 am

Ahh thanks for the link. Now if only my lcd panel would come. How I long for the day that teleporters are invented so I can get my latest toy instantly.

Post by **Henry** » Tue Jan 22, 2002 11:09 am

it usualy takes 1 day to ship in the states and canada and 2 days to europe...

Post by **Cheese** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 4:04 am

Finally got around to adding an update (with all the colours in a nice wavelength order) to my site - http://www.icehardware.net/guides/col_lcd_mod/update/

Cheers,

r.

Ces · Post by **Ces** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 7:27 pm

is it possible to run these things inversed? black background over red font? thanks for any help

Post by **Cheese** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 2:25 am

Yes, just invert the font!

r.