Thread: GREAT DEAL: 10.4" Touchscreen - Samsung LCD $215!

I'm guessing he is talking about the buttons that are on the side of the monitor. The picture looks to be of the 10.4" screen which has the connectors (USB/VGA/ect) on the bottom and the buttons on the side. Unless he is asking about getting the connectors from the side (on an 8" model) and moving them to the bottom.

I would think you would be able to move them however you would need to fastion some sort of a case or modify the existing one to hold them in position and such. I have yet to rip down my screen so I am not exactly sure on how easy or how hard or even how possible it may be to accomplish such a feat.

^^ If you have specific questions or require specific advice on an install, you should look in and/or start a thread in the Fabrication forum. Just because this thread is about this particular screen doesn't mean its an appropriate place to be discussing installation questions (that is, if you want people to chime in). That aside, to quickly touch on your questions:

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The IR reciever (the 3-pin part you circled on the button board) is often cut, extended away from the board with wires, and hidden somewhere in direct line of sight to the remote control (like in a vent or mounted in its own hole in the dash). This way you don't need to mount the whole board somewhere it can get an IR signal.

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I'm not sure what the blue wire is, but it looks like it doesn't connect to anything from your pic. If it doesn't, and everything works on the LCD, I'd leave it alone.

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Mounting the electronics of an LCD when doing a custom-fabbed install into the dash requires a bit of imagination. The only requirements are that the boards are mounted solidly, the electrical connections are all made as they are in the case of the monitor, and the boards' conductive surfaces and components are electrically insulated from one another and other conductive materials. Many people mount the boards to a piece of plastic or wood and mount that somewhere behind the dash, some find a way to sandwich the boards all together to the back of the LCD, etc. Look around in the Fabrication forum for ideas on how others have done it and adapt a procedure to fit your own needs.