Moving volume and brightness buttons and wiring

nuky nuclear · Post by **nuky nuclear** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:07 pm

I was wondering how easy it is to move the volume and screen brightness buttons on my zenith screen and if any type of push button would work for it. also i know this is off topic but i am going to connect the wires for video and audio to the screen and i noticed that there are 4 wires i need to connect on the screen. the black which is the ground, the yellow which is video and then the red and white for audio. now do i need to connect both audio wires for 1 speaker and where does the ground connect to because i noticed that in the book it doesnt show where to connect it to.

Ben Cebhrem · Post by **Ben Cebhrem** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:37 pm

Use a normally open button for the volume and contrast buttons, but yeah- any should work.

I would suggest connecting both left and right audio, but it's up to you if you connect one, both, or neither. You've also got to supply power by the way- that's another wire you need to hook up.

As far as where ground goes, there is a sticky in the video hacking section place thingie that has the pinout, including RGB (I think).

nuky nuclear · Post by **nuky nuclear** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:26 pm

CFC Fodder wrote:Use a normally open button for the volume and contrast buttons, but yeah- any should work.

I would suggest connecting both left and right audio, but it's up to you if you connect one, both, or neither. You've also got to supply power by the way- that's another wire you need to hook up.

As far as where ground goes, there is a sticky in the video hacking section place thingie that has the pinout, including RGB (I think).

i got the power hooked up. in the book the diagram doesnt show the ground http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 803,00.asp . and sense im just using 1 speaker i dont think i need to have left and right audio. mono audio should work for that. same goes for when i do the audio/video out port i dont think i need excellent sound from the tv, plus its rare that i will hook it up to the tv.

also how would i wire in the new buttons for the screen? do i remove the old ones and if so how?

nuky nuclear · Post by **nuky nuclear** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:18 pm

do i really even need the brightness buttons, will they make much of a difference or should i just turn the screen to max brightness and leave it like that?

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:25 pm

You LED modded it right? If you did, you should just leave it all the up. It won't make much of a difference on the battery life. If not, you should leave the buttons on it, if you're playing in a well lit room, maxed brightness is a little too much.

Also, you can just desolder the buttons and solder new wires to both the buttons and the board. It's easier to remove the screen before doing that, gives you a lot more room.

nuky nuclear · Post by **nuky nuclear** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:34 pm

Valium wrote:You LED modded it right? If you did, you should just leave it all the up. It won't make much of a difference on the battery life. If not, you should leave the buttons on it, if you're playing in a well lit room, maxed brightness is a little too much.

Also, you can just desolder the buttons and solder new wires to both the buttons and the board. It's easier to remove the screen before doing that, gives you a lot more room.

so i am able to desolder the buttons then? I guess they desolder from the same side they are already on then right? also this is where i wired in the ground from the screen is it right?

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:12 pm

As long as the backlight is grounded somewhere, it's fine.

nuky nuclear · Post by **nuky nuclear** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:43 pm

Valium wrote:As long as the backlight is grounded somewhere, it's fine.

so that is the right spot to ground the back wire from the screen then?

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:05 pm

If it says it's ground, then it's ground and it'll work fine.