traitorhound

hey guys. . ..how have all of you supplied power to your lcd. . .did you directly to the battery or did you take power from the computer cpu. . . which would be more advisable to do. . .if it's safe to hook it up to the car's power supply (battery) would i need to use some sort of voltage regulator to keep the voltage steady to the screen or is that too much to do?

thanks

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osirisdon

no do not connect it to the car's power. Use the 12v rail off the pc's psu.

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Tony S

Rig the power to one of the yellow & black wires that is part of the power connector you power the harddrives, cdroms, etc., with. This way you're getting a common power source as the rest of the PC so you should get a clean picture. Also, when you power-down the PC you'll shut the screen(s) off, too, therefore you don't have to worry about forgetting to shut the screen off.

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Henry Winx

what do I do if I am using a laptop as the pc, how should I power the lecd then?

CHeers for any help

traitorhound

see my plan was to use the blinking led that occurs when the screen was in standby to have a sort of pseudo alarm. . . .heh but if not that's cool

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