Is it worth liberating a broken 22" apple cinema

[mac-man6]

I have been offered broken 22" apple cinema, the old white tripod type with the ADC connector. I found the service manual but haven't had time to troubleshoot. I remember a couple months ago when it was hooked up to a MDD nothing would display and I think there were no chimes at start up . Hopefully I'll have some more time but I don't know if it's worth it. I don't have an adapter or computer that uses ADC.

What do you think?

 

[MacMan]

If it is free then yes, go for it. By the sounds of it if the MDD wasn't chiming at startup then it was more likely that the MDD had something wrong with it. It could just need something as simple as a CUDA switch reset - my G4 needs that occasionally to get it going.

 

[mac-man6]

Oh it's the LCD version not the CRT. You know what, I forgot about the MDD being the problem, I'm quite sleepy. Thanks for the quick reply though Mr. Mac-Man. If I'm Mac-Man6 and are you MacMan Zero?

 

[MacMan]

Presumably I am no. 0! I kind of picked this name when I joined the 68KMLA and since then I have just kind of kept it and used it for other things. On Flickr I'm MacMan475, since MacMan was already taken. The original inspiration was from the game "MacMan Classic", a version of PacMan for System 6.

 

[iamdigitalman]

I remember that game!! it's on my powerbook 100, if I ever replace the screen.

But yeah, if it's free, and there is not any visible cracks and bleeding, then take it. Who knows, it might just work.

-digital

 

[aphetica]

In the worst case, you might be able to sell the shell if it's in good condition. Someone somewhere might need to replace their broken one.

But I mean... I can't imagine why the screen would be chiming.

Actually, speaking of chiming; my CRT makes these weird "ping" sounds once in a while. I have no idea what they are. Reminds me somewhat of a slight tap on an amplifier with spring reverb turned all the way up, if you've ever heard that.

 

[mac-man6]

Mr MacMan, that's why they pay you the big bucks. I swapped it onto a MDD we have around and it works perfectly! I'm taking it for sure. 22" is quite a striking size. It was the MDD that was the trouble the whole time, and I tried the cuda button but no luck.

 

[MacMan]

Great, congratulations on your upcoming conquest!

 

[Christopher]

If that 22" works. How much would you want for it?

 

[quinterro]

I would get it. If the LCD is the problem, the display could be disassembled to find out the make and model of the panel to see how much a replacement costs.

While I haven't replaced a panel in an LCD display lately, I have done many laptop panels. The last one I did cost between $150-170 for a 17" widescreen panel.

The only LCD display panel I replaced was on an older HP 17" model. I used a panel from one found in the hallway at work to replace one that had water damage. Except for the housing, it was exactly like replacing a panel from a laptop.

 

[tomlee59]

A 22" panel will be extremely expensive. Extremely. As in, very expensive. As in, it will cost a lot.

You may be lucky, though, and discover that your display suffers from the common "dead inverter" problem that afflicts many cinema displays. Replacement inverters are available at reasonable cost, so if you're comfortable with disassembling things, that's the way to go.

And if you're very comfortable with component-level repairs, you may succeed in fixing the inverter. The power transistors are a weak spot, as is the transformer. Replacement transistors are readily available for a few dollars. Don't know about the transformer, however.

 

[benjgvps]

Even if they do cost a fair amount to fix, It still would be cheaper than getting a new or used cinema display.

 

[MacMan]

I should maybe point out that mac-man6 has mentioned earlier in this thread that the Cinema display does actually work perfectly, it was the G4 it was connected to that has the problem.

 

[Quadraman]

I wouldn't bother with an ADC monitor. The only video cards that support ADC are Apple cards and they usually get replaced sooner or later. Once you replace your ADC video card with one that doesn't have ADC then you have to buy an adapter to use the ADC monitor with that card and the adapters aren't cheap because they have to supply power to the ADC monitor. They are not just a simple connector adapter.