If you're making a portable you probably need something to watch it on. (Unless you want to guess what's happening in the game, but I wouldn't advise that) Anyway, this forum is your "Hacking a pocket TV/screen" one-stop solution. Share your experiences and knowledge here.
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Zenith screen warning.
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by Nintendott » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:15 am
Just to tell you other guys in case.
The little blue thing im holding in my hand is mounted to the screen for a reason.
The blue thing (Regulator) must not be removed from the screen even if you are using an TI regulator.
If you give the screen 7-9 volts with out the blue regulator board, the screen backlight will fry.
I did it and im just here to warn other people just in case.
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by hailrazer » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:18 am
I have used over 7 Zenith screens and NONE of them had that board.
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by Nintendott » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:32 am
hailrazer wrote:I have used over 7 Zenith screens and NONE of them had that board.
Well, i guess im the unlucky guy
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by argelfraster » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:00 pm
I had two zenith screens without that aswell
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by Hobbes » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:37 pm
Was it a zenith screen? Or was in another recase like Verge? My zenith screens don't have it but my verge screen does.
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by dragonhead » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:23 pm
zenith gamecube screens have those. i have one as well that has a 12v to 7v regulator.
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by snowpenguin » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:30 pm
My verge screen had something similar, it works absolutely fine without it.
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by smitty » Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:09 pm
Darn, my screen has one of those, I guess that means I need it. I was hoping I could just not use anything from that outer piece, and just use the stuff that was inside the actual screen part. But
nooooooooooo! It just had to have a little blue thingamagig that I apparently absolutely positively need to put in my portable.
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by Pkmnjunky7 » Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:36 pm
I know this is a month late, but I thought i would post here that my screen had that and works perfect without ANYTHING that isn't on the regular psone screen, so feel free to remove all that extra crap and wire it up like normal..
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by palmertech » Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:56 am
Yeah, some revisions of the Zenith screen have that. All it does is let them use a really, really crap 12v power supply, it brings it down and smoothes it out a bit.
The real moral is "If your screen has this plug, THROW AWAY THE AC ADAPTER that came with it."
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by JariV » Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:01 am
If the backlight fries, you can just replace it with LED's right?.
themadhacker wrote:chainfire95 wrote:What are radio shack buttons?
buttons you buy at radioshack.
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by Kyo » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:18 am
yes
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by JariV » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:34 am
So you don't copulate your screen by removing it
themadhacker wrote:chainfire95 wrote:What are radio shack buttons?
buttons you buy at radioshack.
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by Kyo » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:53 am
you don't either way, you just need to use a power supply the screen can take, i.e. 7.5V or thereabouts
