Re: Picture tubes and LCD's

A better approach to converting existing lcd displays these days is
to use some of the very inexpensive internet appliance devices, now
available surplus. You'll get a decent computer bundled with the
panel.

An example would be the iOpener cnc controller I've built up...or
iOcnc. For about $150 it results in a 200MHz Pentium class compact
800x600 color touch screen (DTSN) controller running EMC under linux.
These boxes are availabe on Ebay these days for about $50.

r

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Dale Smith" <mediasmith@m...> wrote:
> Me Too!!!! I have been trying to turn up enough info to allow me to
adapt color LCD displays from old, dead laptops and notebooks for use
as shop computer monitors.
>
> If any video genius has the word, it is certainly going to be
appreciated by more than one person!
>
> AS Well: Most of what I know about electrical things stems from Ham
radio in the mid-'50s. Along with the new things I newer heard of,
there are a couple of things I forgot.
>
> I am now faced with a transformer with inputs for 120, 220, and 480
VAC and outputs for the same voltages. The problem is, it is
rated ".250 KVA" How do I get from there to amps@volts in/out?
>
> Thanks,
> WDSmith
>
>
> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 22:24:44 -0000
> From: "audiomaker2000" <audiomaker@s...>
> Subject: Picture tubes and LCD's
>
> <snip>Older CNC controls often have those little CRT screens that
go bad,
> or ghost, or burn in...
>
> How hard would it be to replace on of those CRT's with an LCD and
> what would be involved in the conversion?
>
> While I'm here, let me ask the same question but subsitute the LCD
> for a computer monitor of recent manufacture.
>
> Thoughts?
> Sean
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]