[sdiy] more backlighting questions

[GothGeek Sysadmin]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:58:03AM -0400, CHoaglin at aol.com wrote:
> I've now gotten to the point where it's pretty certain the backlight retrofit 
> will work, but now I'm trying to decide...LED or EL?
> 
> Right now the pros and cons I can think of are:
> 
> LED
> ..stuff deleted..
> EL
> ..stuff deleted..

If the LCD has a reflective backing, you will have to remove it to use an
EL backlight and then you will Always have to use the EL even when you have
decent front lighting.

There are FrontLighting LED kits that use a thin sheet of lightguide.

Check out this site :
http://www.portablemonopoly.com/

Its one persons travels on making a Gameboy Advance backlit.  He did find
some LED/Lightguide sources.

Personally I just dig thru junk at Mike Quin's ( surplus shop in San Leandro )
until I find something I can mutilate.  Yesterdays aquisition?  720k
floppy drives that fit my Ensoniq Mirage and also fit my Atari STs I bought
after the last round of talking about software sequencers in here...
( anyone wanna give me pointers on getting a harddrive up on this thing
without getting the Dreaded Four Bombs?? )

Sing while you may!

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