Those of us that have used LCD monitors for a while know that over time the backlight starts to dim and will eventually completely fail. Leaving you with some electronic scrap that you could sell on eBay for 35 bucks or so. So man the surplus scrounging wagon and head out to your local school surplus or eBay! Well for less than $20.00 and about a half hour of your time you can replace the backlight and rejuvenate that monitor to as good as new condition. I have been using LCD monitors for years now, and unfortunately I have had the backlights in a couple of them fail. One failed due to the bulb, the second failed due to the power supply failing and hosing the bulb. I attempted to contact the manufacturers several times to try to get replacement parts, but the drones that work at Viewsonic or KDS gave me a canned response. “The model you have has been replaced with a newer model and is not supported any more”. almost every other month Viewsonic comes out with a new model that is faster refresh, or higher contrast ratio or something of the like…. so it has been totally imposable to get replacement parts. Couple that with the usual one year backlight warranty and you can see it can be good business for them to have a part that costs less them less than a dollar fail just after the warranty runs out. vintage general electric flip clock 20.00 10.20 shipping Vintage Panasonic Flip Clock Radio RC-6030D Alarm Groundhog Day Works 90.99 Was: 129.99 9.95 shipping or Best Offer Vintage CHANNEL MASTER 6272 Flip Clock Alarm Radio Tested working 75.00 8.65 shipping Vintage Sankyo Flip alarm Clock Model 303AL For Parts 20.00 17. Well realizing that I am not the only one that has felt this frustration I decided to take matters into my own hands. I was surprised how easy and cheep it was to rescue my LCD monitors from the geek hacking bench. Well for less than 20.00 and about a half hour of your time you can replace the backlight and rejuvenate that monitor to as good as new condition. If it is the electrical part of the motor that is broken, you might be able to use one of mine to combine if with yours to make a working and fitting motor. Most LCD monitors are constructed the same way, with a cold cathode bulb as the back light source. The ones I have here are unfortunately all different from the one you need, so not a one-on-one replacement.

A small 12V inverter provides power to the bulb.Ī plastic sheet acts as a lens that refracts the light from the edge to the front of the screen and through the LCD panel. As the bulbs get old they can have a hard time starting, lighting at all, flickering, or even putting out a strong pink colored lightĬold cathode bulbs can be hard to come by new and unused, and they can cost allot ordered from resale vendors. So we looked to case lighting for the source of our bulbs. Xoxide has an excellent selection of them with the inverter for about $9.00 and a couple bucks for shipping, and so does. A good 15″ kit will provide a bulb for a 15″ monitor just fine! I have been able to find 17″ kits as well as 19″ kits. But most likely you wont have to replace your inverter, and that will save you a couple bucks.

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