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    Request for information about the PowerBook 170 inverter board and LED upgrade

    By the way, while searching for information about the display and inverter, I found this: http://winnilcd.en.made-in-china.com/product/vMbxgcerABhi/China-Industrial-LCD-Panel-HLR1014-101125-HLD1014-03-0010.html   Certainly fascinating if this 24 year old laptop display is still in production for...
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    Request for information about the PowerBook 170 inverter board and LED upgrade

    While waiting for some more insightful information from you guys, I made some basic measurements of the inverter board and input connector pinout myself. In case this information might be useful to someone else, I'm posting it here. Likely, the pin assignment is as follows:   01 Ground 02 Ground...
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    Request for information about the PowerBook 170 inverter board and LED upgrade

    Thank you for your reply! Good to know. I actually have a few other PowerBooks I could use for a spare CCFL, but an LED backlight is very tempting, and would last longer.  Apart from the backlight being very dim, the display still works fine, so I haven't thought of replacing any caps yet. I...
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    Request for information about the PowerBook 170 inverter board and LED upgrade

    Hi everyone!   I have an old and classic PowerBook 170 that I'm still using (along some more recent equipment, perhaps I should add :) ). Unfortunately the screen backlight is on its last legs. Since I recently upgraded the storage to a Compact Flash-card (through the amazing PowerMonster II)...
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