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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 7:26 am
by Cheese
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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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 11:38 am
by relix
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!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 2:40 pm
by jodynicH
looks really nice, maybe one day here soon ill get the balls to do that to mine
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 4:44 pm
by Henry
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!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 10:23 pm
by Thlayli
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!
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2002 9:09 am
by Cheese
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2002 11:07 am
by Thlayli
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2002 11:09 am
by Henry
it usualy takes 1 day to ship in the states and canada and 2 days to europe...
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2002 4:04 am
by Cheese
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 7:27 pm
by Ces
is it possible to run these things inversed? black background over red font? thanks for any help
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2002 2:25 am
by Cheese
Yes, just invert the font!
r.