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"The long and winding road...." Luke_T shares his experiences with projector creation |
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Written by Daniel
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Monday, 24 January 2005 |
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"Hi,
Firstly congrats on building some good projectors, I have been trying
this myself on and off for 2 month now. I've had some success but I've
been very unlucky in my tft screen purchases.
Firstly I had an old IBM TFT screen that was 14.1" which was perfect
for my 3M projector (400W halogen, very similar to cesiums). However
upon taking it apart I discovered that there were 2 strips of printed
circuit board along the horizontal and vertical of one side which were
connected by a very short ribbon. This meant that when the pcb's were
folded back out of the way of the screen the ribbon was no longer long
enough to connect them. - result - Fail
Second attempt was a Samsung 152v which I decided to buy from a well
known pc retail store in the UK. I got this screen because I saw on the
tomshardware site that similar models (152n etc.) were recommended as
suitable screen for this project. Sure enough it was great, until
disaster struck and one of the pcb stubs on the right of the screen
riped off (see photo) this effectively took out the bottom 1/3 of the
screen. - result - fail 
Third attempt was a replacement Samsung from that well known pc
retailer, however upon opening this screen I noticed that the innards
were different from the first one, and I now had a monitor with a small
ribbon cable that would not allow the pcb's to be folded back. Just
like my first attempt... luckily I managed to take this back and get a
full refund. - result - fail.
So now I'm still after a suitable TFT monitor for this project, I
haven't lost any money yet so I feel quite lucky. At the same time I'm
frustrated as hell because I have a projector, projector-screen and
cooling method... just no damn tft screen...
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, sorry for boring you all with my attempts!
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