Why Mess With LED Drivers? Get Strip Lights.

[dogdad]

I've been replacing all of the fluorescent lights in my rv with little LED 12v strip lights, and a thought occurred (yeah, I know... an unusual thing for me).

Why do we work so hard to get the LED driver circuitry working again on tv's, when we could just replace the entire function (LED's, driver boards, etc) with some of the strips? I got a 5m roll of them (from China, of course) for less than $10.

I see a LOT of questions on here about getting the backlighting to work again on various tv's, so it's gotta be a big problem-area. When I was trying to find some replacement LED's for a Seiki tv, the best I could find was $45 for a single strip of 8 of them.... and a lot of places didn't have any stock.

I'm sure you'd have to match color temperature, lumens, etc, but how bad could it be?

Whatcha Think?

[budm]

Re: Why Mess With LED Drivers? Get Strip Lights.

But you cannot adjust the backlight level unless you modify or add circuit for that function, you can mod the circuit to turn the LED ON/OFF.
Since the LED strip does not have diffuser LENS for each LED, you can see the light bands on the screen.
For example:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=56004

[dogdad]

Re: Why Mess With LED Drivers? Get Strip Lights.

Yeah, you're right. I didn't think too far into the idea at the time.

However, I did happen to run across some stuff on the Inet (Instructibles, etc). One guy had an O'scope with failed backlite, and he stuck some LEDs in there. Another showed a pc monitor, but you could kinda see the bright bands. Not good for quality tv, but what the heck. Guess it might work if one wanted to put enough effort into it, or maybe just to say: "Hey! It works!".

I'm kinda like that. I built a sat-tv receiver & antenna from scratch, way back when HBO/etc weren't scrambled. Got a picture to prove it worked, then lost interest... til MDS microwave came along for metro areas.