How did you wreck your screen?

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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How did you wreck your screen?

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i thought we needed a thread of forboding warnings of how you destroyed your screen.....and how not to make the mistake :oops:
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I hit it with a hammer :twisted:

Stupid crappy gamecube screens :P
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Broke off the thing that holds the ribbon cable not the clip the entire componet.
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 »

thought i did but brought that sucker back from the dead :mrgreen:
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How did you do it.
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but that doesnt answer my question, how did you break it/revive it?
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Post by warbaby »

had an adjustable DC-DC adapter, and it piped in 10.25 volts into my screen... i now check the voltage after i adjust it now...

sum things went pop, and fizz after the incident... funny thing was is that i had the screen switched off the whole time, yet i still manage to fry it...

oh well, for sum reason it still works.
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thats really good/strange......
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 »

well the screen i brought back from the dead is still slightly funky because it wont take in power from pin 1 for some reason and sometimes it wont even power up

it got like this because of my possessed Ni-Cd battery from rad shack
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radio shack sucks!!
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 »

indeed it does that battery also fried my psone and a good 7805 along with about 6 leds
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Post by Motoman »

sell it on ebay as a "haunted battery" and say that it will fry about every electronic you hook it up to! starting bid is $300 :P

Oh BTW i wrekeed my screen by puttin in 10 volts too much (it was late and i was tired.......)
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i broke my screen in a weird way. i kept my screen on a work BENCH, then my brother jumped on it 'for fun' then the screen went flying and landed in a hearstopping THUD
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Post by Foxx373 »

Oh god, where to start! My Verge screen.... I fried the original power circuit in the base, luckally, i didnt need it. I killed one of the headphone jacks while removing it. I put in my own jack so i could have a small power/video jack. I had an assload of trouble getting RGB to work properly cause' of signal strenght problems. Not to mention the computer wouldnt detect it as a secondary display. Audio wont work until i bypass the removed headphone jack switch lines. I also wound up accidentally applying power across the composite input line, completely NUKE'ING some componets off the bord.

My Intec PS2 Controller screen... I FRIED the voltage regulatore. I made a replacement, but its not the same. In the process of completely destroying the regulator, i fried the audio amp.

It seems i usually make really dumb mistakes that blow stuff up.
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Post by warbaby »

i dint realize yu could fry a screen even when its off... but it seems whatever blew, cant be exactly sure, it was directly connected into the power switched... wasnt too important, still works.

we just need a story of one of those haunted batteries...
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