Assuming it is LED backlit can you get at and change the LEDs? Bob Ammerman RAm Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Brooks" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [EE]: Swapping Out a SKYFi LCD Display > > Is it possible to make out and count the pixels then > > search again ? > > I was trying to avoid that. :) I may give that a shot > tonight by taking a digital picture of the display, and > attempting to count them on a blown-up image. That's the > easiest method I could come up with. > > > > Can you identify the controller and driver ICs on the > > display or are they blobs ? > > Unfortunately not easily. I also thought that might help, > but the ICs, while not blobbed over, are covered by another > board in a large metal enclosure that is soldered to the > main board at a right angle (roughly 20 connections). I > tried bending it up a little, but the connectors are fairly > thick and non-pliable, and I didn't want to snap 'em. I > may finally unsolder the connections if nothing else > turns up. IIRC though, they're surface-mount connections. > Tedious work with my cheapo soldering iron. :) > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu