techknight
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Its not. does the same thing if I leave the EL sheet turned off. Although it is not out of the realm of possibilities, considering the EL sheet is a big capacitor essentially, and its not grounded to the chassis (inverter is seperate)
Ill just leave it alone, its not like its going to be on 24/7.
I do have another spare LCD that I might go ahead and destroy, Maybe.
The LCD I used was from a parts machine that was busted up in shipping, shredded ribbon cable, (that I had to fix), and a bad motherboard as well. I bought this portable last week just for hacking. I was going to convert it into a modern machine considering I already have a 5120 and 5126 for my collection. This third one was specifically for hacking.
But since this one has cracks that I had to glue all back into place, I decided to not proceed with the PC conversion. Instead, I decided to use this as my hack/mod/hotrod machine. So the first thing I started with was the backlight mod. Of course, it was missing the battery when I got it, and they nearly destroyed the machine by removing the HDD. they basically shredded the floppy, and LCD ribbons. somehow. I had to rebuild the LCD ribbon, and replace the floppy ribbon.
Regardless, i had no idea if the LCD was even good to start with. But I have a whole upper display head assembly that I got from Uniserver a couple years back for testing/parts. It seems to work perfectly fine.
I could mod it like i mentioned, and use this first LCD attempt as a test LCD for benching logic boards and leave it at that.
Ill just leave it alone, its not like its going to be on 24/7.
I do have another spare LCD that I might go ahead and destroy, Maybe.
The LCD I used was from a parts machine that was busted up in shipping, shredded ribbon cable, (that I had to fix), and a bad motherboard as well. I bought this portable last week just for hacking. I was going to convert it into a modern machine considering I already have a 5120 and 5126 for my collection. This third one was specifically for hacking.
But since this one has cracks that I had to glue all back into place, I decided to not proceed with the PC conversion. Instead, I decided to use this as my hack/mod/hotrod machine. So the first thing I started with was the backlight mod. Of course, it was missing the battery when I got it, and they nearly destroyed the machine by removing the HDD. they basically shredded the floppy, and LCD ribbons. somehow. I had to rebuild the LCD ribbon, and replace the floppy ribbon.
Regardless, i had no idea if the LCD was even good to start with. But I have a whole upper display head assembly that I got from Uniserver a couple years back for testing/parts. It seems to work perfectly fine.
I could mod it like i mentioned, and use this first LCD attempt as a test LCD for benching logic boards and leave it at that.
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