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Playstation Screen Confusion
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I got my playstation and screen today and took it apart to get it ready for the white led mod. I finally opened it up to discover my wasn't anything like the one displayed. It's still backlight but it's something in the screen but I was just curious about wgat it was. Works fine and looks the backlight comes from inside the screen. Anything would help, maybe I went crazy or something. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Well the first thing I'd do is go check out abbibi's site. There's a section on screen mods and it shows how to do a backlight mod on a PSone screen.
(here's a link)
If you've already read that and you're still confused then make sure that you've opened up the LCD module all the way.
Hope this helps!
(here's a link)
If you've already read that and you're still confused then make sure that you've opened up the LCD module all the way.
Hope this helps!
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Well, I guess it would, but it would be a lot less fun!!!!!!!
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Well, the newer (discontinued) Sony psone screens have a "U" shaped light rather than an "L" under a peace of metal (than some plastic) surrounding the screen. There is almost no room to put an led, and you have to take it almost completely apart to get to it (remove glass, plastic film, the works.)
What brand do you have?
What brand do you have?
here is a copy and paste job from benheck.com. I believe it is the same screen as yours and mine from the description, but cannot be sure because he image on the site doesn't seem to be showing up.
Ah, a personal holy grail of mine. I bought a PS One screen a while ago because, well, let's face it, $130 for a 5-inch TFT screen? You can't beat that!
BUT (there's always a butt) the darn thing consumes around 1 amp (not milliamp, AMP) of power at 7.2 volts. You hook this thing onto a PSOne and it uses as much or MORE power than the game system itself.
So, where to turn... Where indeed! White LED's! Of course, the PSOne screen has this really odd bulb thing going around the backlight plastic. It's U-shaped and covers 3 sides of the plastic. Well, I ditched that thing and stuck in 3 LED's, each pointing down a side, much like marching soldiers or that scene in Tron.
If any of you other tinkerers would like to give this a go, just wire (3) 3mm white LED's in parallel off the PS One's +7.2v power source and put a 22 ohm resistor in front of them.
The end result? A screen that now consumes only 350mA when running, a mere 35% of the original power sucking. GEE! What could I have in mind for this screen? Only time will tell!