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not cold cathode. standard fluorescent. the standard is a way to decrease cost while increasing area of light production (by using many tubes 1/2" to 3/4" rather than 2-4 tubes 1-2mm) while simultaneously allowing the installer to eliminate (theory) the diffuser by creating 100% coverage of the LCD panel (due to the large tube diameter)
key word used was DIY.
The typical forum DIY method are to use very high output LED strings as the light source and as much thought and technology as possible put into the light diffuser to compensate for the point sources of light.
I just pulled four CCFL tubes from a 19" computer monitor. Agreed; seems common enough.
I've never seen a production monitor (obviously never will, either) using inexpensive standard fluorescents in an array but more importantly never seen anyone here DIY their own.
Does that make more sense? I may not have been clear enough with my initial line of reasoning.
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