Wrong ccfl lamp frame

[rippergr]

Hello,
I ordered some lamps from internet but the frame that has the lamps is bigger.
Is there anyway to cut the frame without hurting the lamps. Or anyway to fit those in the monitor(maybe I am doing something wrong)

[HAHOMETP]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

I'd swap the lamps themselves in their frames. Just be careful. These 3mm glass tubes are extremely fragile.

[rippergr]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

I am trying to avoid swap the lamps because I broke 4 lamps in the past.

[HAHOMETP]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

IMO removing the lamp is easier than say cutting the metal frame with tin snips. Hard to tell from your picture if the tubes are potted in or just placed there on some double sticky tape. If the latter then it should be fairly easy to remove them by gently heating up the metal frame with a heat gun. I use this awesome precision heat gun for everything from peeling off stickers and scotch tape to heat shrinking insulation tubing to even desoldering IC chips from printed boards:


Off topic: which program do you use to insert callouts into jpegs? I'd rather not build pdf documents for this purpose if there is a simpler alternative.

[rippergr]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

I finally swap the lamps but now my screen has blue light in a part of it at the begiining and then it kind of fadi and then a white box go up and down ( I think it's the no signal box).
Does anyone knows what could be that?

[rippergr]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

ok I've got it. I didn't put a cable correctly.
Thanks all for your help.

[rash.m2k]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

IMO removing the lamp is easier than say cutting the metal frame with tin snips. Hard to tell from your picture if the tubes are potted in or just placed there on some double sticky tape. If the latter then it should be fairly easy to remove them by gently heating up the metal frame with a heat gun. I use this awesome precision heat gun for everything from peeling off stickers and scotch tape to heat shrinking insulation tubing to even desoldering IC chips from printed boards:


Off topic: which program do you use to insert callouts into jpegs? I'd rather not build pdf documents for this purpose if there is a simpler alternative.

Can you give me the name of this? or a link please where to buy it (UK).

[selldoor]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

www.3pointproducts.com/precision-spot-heat-gun/

Cant see them over here

[stj]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

http://www.dx.com/p/gongjue-8018lcd-...rk-blue-277080

[HAHOMETP]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

Can you give me the name of this? or a link please where to buy it (UK).

It's a Milwaukee 1400 heat gun. There are plenty of them on ebay at any given time.

[stj]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

the one i linked is better, you can set the temp & airflow.

[stj]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

Off topic: which program do you use to insert callouts into jpegs? I'd rather not build pdf documents for this purpose if there is a simpler alternative.

callouts?

[selldoor]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

Yeh - I had not come across it either

definition for callout
Explanation:
callout - A pointer, verbal or graphical or both, to a component of an illustration or a text object.

I think this applies to both UK and US English

Hmm UK English ?????

It means the label put on the picture - I usually fumble something using Paint
but I am sure there are better programs

[stj]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

the best is GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/

and i think the english would be "highlighting"

[HAHOMETP]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

the one i linked is better, you can set the temp & airflow.

Agree. I've had my eyes on Leister heat guns for quite some time now but just couldn't justify the expense. With the one in your link @ only 42 bux I might give it a try. I like the tightly focused heat source and the temperature regulator is nice to have. Need to find the ~120v version though...

i think the english would be "highlighting"

No, highlights and callouts are not the same thing.

I use callouts extensively in my posts like for example here. For that I have to resort to creating pdf documents which are time consuming create and clumsy to open. I tried making callouts in graphic editors like for example FastStone but they would come out blurred. The callout in the OP looks sharp and crisp, that's why I asked the OP which program he used.

[stj]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

that link shows a pdf with a high res foto in it, i dont see any added text, arrows, circles etc.

[Agent24]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

I finally swap the lamps but now my screen has blue light in a part of it at the beginning

ok I've got it. I didn't put a cable correctly.
Thanks all for your help.

Can you explain the problem with the cable? There was someone else who mentioned their monitor backlight showing Blue, I wonder if their problem is the same as yours.

[HAHOMETP]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

that link shows a pdf with a high res foto in it, i dont see any added text, arrows, circles etc.

Interesting. I have attached a snapshot of that pdf the way it appears on my screen.

[selldoor]

Re: Wrong ccfl lamp frame

Shows OK to me though oddly enough the annotation appeared slightly after the picture