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.
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.
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.
Mario wrote:Yes, I've gone to my local Wal-Mart and was amazed at their selection of resistors, inductors, and FPGA chips.
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..
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."
