Hi,
i just wasted 80eur on a broken TFT i can't repair.
When i got it and opened it i suspected bad things, the cable to the buttons was cut, and all the wires to the backlight CCFLs hat the plugs cut off. Also the fuse was missing and a few screws...
After i fixed the button cable and patched up some of the backlight tubes i got a picture - a very disappointing picture.
It shows clearly a spiderweb broken TFT, but the front glass is flawless and you can't see any break with the power off.
Now i'm very fed up with this, because there was a sticker on the panel front, mostly peeled off but you can see the remains. I bet my arse it did read "broken" before the seller ripped it off and sold it without telling what is wrong.
Oh well, not much to do about it i fear.
Any idea how a TFT can break "inside"? I would think this is the back glass broken, but how can this happen without the front glass beeing damaged?
I don't see how i could identify this before buying. Dead tfts are so incredibly expensive on ebay.
I really want a 18" one for the bench, the 15" one is ok for reading the odd schematic or datasheet, but recently i discovered for programming it is really not enough. And constantly moving about between the bench and the PC is quite a workout...
ST
