[Noisebridge-discuss] LCD monitors + other fixed shtuff

[Zach .]

Hey Dr. Jesus

Someone named David Fine (d at vidfine.com) posted on the list earlier in the week with a 23" monitor working but a bad backlight...perhaps he could donate it for this ??  That's a great idea as far as projecting the image.

The steady state power really is 24V @ 4A so ~88W.  Miloh and I measured it on a test bench with the minimum settings.  The 20" one is much less I'm sure.

One shuttle had a bad ATX startup circuit so I had to bypass it (y'know, green wire to ground).  Both had bad disk drives and both needed new OS installs...so I put XP on them using a new disc drive.

As far as tools....We definitely need more heat shrink tubing (all the bins are pretty empty by now), a good pair of tweezers for SMD work, possibly a new pair of wire strippers (we only have one good one that will strip 30AWG well, they cost $6 at jameco), and we could *really* use some better screwdrivers, especially a security bit set (for star screws and such).  My repair work has lead me to swear by the $6 Huskys at Home Depot---Ive used them for years and the tips store well inside the handle.  And Jameco sells an amazing security bit set for $5.  I can probably think of a couple other tiny things too...like black electrical tape and dremel bits.  I'll give it some more thought this week.

Let me know if stuff like that sounds doable and I'll do the work of going through the jameco catalog and getting you part numbers and cost and such.

oh, and thanks again for that burrito!

Zach

--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:

From: Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs>
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] LCD monitors + other fixed shtuff
To: "Zach ." <organic_unity at yahoo.com>
Cc: "NoiseBridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:36 PM

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Zach . <organic_unity at yahoo.com> wrote:

hey everyone,
  Just letting people know the deal with the LCD monitors floating around NB. 
There is a Benq monitor and a silver and black monitor with a funky
metal mount on the back that were repaired by me a few weeks ago. 
These monitors took an excess of 20 hours of my time to fix so I am
happy they are getting used at NB and getting much love.

It
would be nice if someone would mount the silver and black one on the
wall facing the circuit-hacking mondays table.  The idea, is to have
easy access for pulling up datasheets and information when doing
hacking (which is was I use comps the most for at NB).  Miloh and I
talked about it before but we've had too much going on to do it
ourselves just yet.
 
The other one (benq) would be nice to keep
on the back desk area since that is a great workspace I have been using
that's a little bit more removed from the mayhem.  I have done
instructionals and stuff over there too.  If you want to remove it feel
free, but if you could return it there when done it would be most
excellent.

Also,
I have fixed both of the shuttles that were donated and the Mac G4 with
the monitor on the back desk there (so now theres 2 working G4s).  One
of the shuttles I'm keeping to use back there, the rest feel free to
move around and find a happy home for them.

Out of curiosity, what was wrong with the shuttle boards? 

I have also fixed a
GIANT inverter backlight for use to light up stuff...its a beautiful
light and originally the idea was to put it outside to light up the NB
logo.  Its on the hackshelf now and if anyone has any ideas for it Id
love to set it up somewhere.  Its 30"ish in size and takes 24v @ 4A 
(yeah, we need a PSU for it too...)  There's another 20" one too from a
broken Samsung monitor ready to be used.

Do you know what the steady state power consumption is?  We're not supposed to use the AC downstairs but I'll look into what it takes to run juice down there to light up the logo.
 
I'll also be taking a
 look at that 50" monitor donated soon as I have a fairly good idea how to repair or bypass it to work again.
That's quite a bit of excellence there, Zach.  Have you thought of anything other tools you'd like besides the soldering tips we talked about?

If you can find a spare projector I can help you rig it up on a workbench and install a computer to draw DVM readouts and datasheets directly on the table with the projector.  If you have an LCD without a backlight we can make a projector using the 30" backlight and a fresnel box, too.  




      
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