Re: Dell 2007FPB teardown

my lights from lcdpartsdirect arrived. i had some trouble soldering them so i only did one part before testing. it's hard to tell but the old ones and the new ones look about as bright. i really hope that isn't the case because the dell before taking it apart looked like the 92cd/m2 crt i've bought recently and that's not a good score for bulbs that claim to be brighter than original in an 300cd/m2 display

Re: Dell 2007FPB teardown

i think this is an appropriate thread for this because i teared down this monitor even more. i bought it used and after over 50k hours it got rather dark. it doesn't look that bad compared to my 2009 lg tv with less hours but using it during the day can get irritating and it's way darker than my new cheapo 250cd/m2 monitor.
i've seen people replacing the ccfl lamps with leds but connecting that to the board can get complicated and the colors looked off in the video so i would rather not do that.
i found a website selling those lamps but i'm...