Laptops and LCD screens use a backlight to illuminate the images produced by the display and make them visible. Displays with a Cold Compact Fluorescent Light use a high-voltage inverter. If the ...

[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn’t have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter ...

Desktop and laptop computer LCD monitors sport a long light bulb to display the video. When this bulb burns out, the screen dims to almost black. Failing backlights can also cause the picture to ...

I just pulled an inverter out of a Toshiba with a 15.5" 4:3 screen to replace a bad one in an HP 17" 16:9 screen. The connectors were the same, and it seems to work okay, but I'm just wondering if ...

If you’re like most of us here at Hack a Day, you probably shudder at the amount of e-waste that gets thrown out — here’s a clever way to make some good use out of a broken laptop screen! [Victor] ...