I modded my monitor!

BigRed · Feb 12, 2002

today i grew some balls and decided to hack apart the monitor

im not done yet, when i get some money im getting windows in the sides of it (broke right now). but this is what ive got so far.
all the wiring inside: the power supply for the mods is in the middle, rheostat i bought from hoot on the left and the light switches are there too, and the evil inverters (more on that later)

Back view

Top view with lights on

Dark shot: camera sux at night, the lights are much brighter than that.

ive run into a problem with this, the power inverters for the cold cathode lights cause the monitor to do funky things when they are on. is there anyway i could sheild these? prehaps by wraping them in tin foil? ill have to do it to the power supply as well cuz it makes the picture all wavy but not to the extent that the inverters do.

Hoot · Feb 13, 2002

CRTs are very sensitive to magnetic fields near them. I don't know if you will be able to adequately shield yours from all that wiring inside the housing.

Looks nice though.

Hoot

BigRed · Feb 13, 2002

what if i wrap all the wires and the psu and inverters with a few layers of foil?

Silversinksam · Feb 13, 2002

I was thinkin the same thing Hoot mentioned......Paycheck_Donny did a similiar mod~ less the lighting you added..

Very cool none the less.....

Red, Have you considered buying some Lead sheeting like a millimeter thick, I used to have a roll of 12" x 24" x 1mm thick lead sheeting.

I wish i didnt give it away as thats probably the only way I can think of reducing the EMI from your fans and wiring.

Maybe someone else has a suggestion.

BigRed · Feb 13, 2002

would kitchen foil work? we got tons of that here

hunter00 · Feb 13, 2002

crazy mod i like it.

Oni · Feb 14, 2002

Very cool!

You've got more balls than I do, my friend.

donny_paycheck · Feb 14, 2002

Grounded tin foil would prevent EMI from escaping the inverter circuitry, but if the waviness is coming from the EMF of the inverter's transformer (which it probably is) then you'll probably have to do something else like relocate them as far away from the back of the CRT as possible or even further. I don't know how far but the transformers for CCF lamp drivers are small and I can't imagine they produce very much of an EMF.

Like Sam mentioned above, I did a cooling mod to my monitor a few months ago. Electrically it's more involved because I switched and ran the fan from the monitor's internal circuitry, but you might get some ideas from it.

edit- I did nothing involving lights though, now THAT is cool! Props to you for what you've got so far my man...

urza · Feb 14, 2002

man, my monitor is so old i can only have it on for about 2 hours that i need to turn it off to cool for about 45 minutes or else all my straight lines on the screen squiggle.

I have to do that to mine!

awsome idea

urza

donny_paycheck · Feb 14, 2002

urza said:
man, my monitor is so old i can only have it on for about 2 hours that i need to turn it off to cool for about 45 minutes or else all my straight lines on the screen squiggle.

I have to do that to mine!

awsome idea

urza

And people say it's a waste of time! Bah!

WyrmMaster · Feb 15, 2002

Not bad, i like the lights. Why not just remote mount the inverters??

O, and the fans look kinda gheto on top like that. You should drill holes and put them inside if they will fit.

jbell · Feb 16, 2002

very impressive man!!

*adds to the 'to do' list!*

VashTheStampede · Feb 16, 2002

Silversinksam said:
Red, Have you considered buying some Lead sheeting like a millimeter thick, I used to have a roll of 12" x 24" x 1mm thick lead sheeting.

Preparing for a nuclear fallout?

~Vash~

jdmcnudgent · Feb 18, 2002

your nutz, kool though

Blackearth · Feb 18, 2002

thats pretty awesome, would a window mod work on a monitor? or is the whole emi thing at work against that too?

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