How to hook up Notebook backlight for other uses

[Mark F]

Invertor has many input pins, not sure what functions they
provide. Anywhere I might find pinout for Toshiba Satellite,
or older Acernote or others?
thanks in advance /mark

 

[Bart Bervoets]

Find an old flatbed scanner, there's a 12V inverter inside that works well
on those lamps.

Bart Bervoets

 

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Invertor has many input pins, not sure what functions they
provide. Anywhere I might find pinout for Toshiba Satellite,
or older Acernote or others?
thanks in advance /mark

If you could be a bit more vague... why do you think you've gotten so
litle response?

if you could tell us how many pins, trace the invertor cct diag and
post it for us, maybe we can get somewhere.


NT

 

[James Sweet]

Find an old flatbed scanner, there's a 12V inverter inside that works well
on those lamps.

Bart Bervoets

Or just look online, All Electronics and Electronic Goldmine among
others usually have a number of cheap surplus inverters.

 

[Mark F]

Thanks - was hoping someone had done it before, hence the wording of
the question with specific reference to a couple of families.

I'll proceed with the heuristic method at some point, I guess...

THe application, by the way, is to backlight an older "overhead"
LCD tablet, as a really poorman's LCD monitor on one of my CNC
machines. Can't afford an LCD monitor, don't have the space for a
CRT, but one of my two tablets would do fine. There are other
ways to backlight them, for sure, but at the expense of uniformity
and space...

/mark F

 

[David Naylor]

Invertor has many input pins, not sure what functions they
provide. Anywhere I might find pinout for Toshiba Satellite,
or older Acernote or others?
thanks in advance /mark

Thanks guys you gave me an idea, I have an NEC monitor that the
invertor is dead and ahve 2 old flatbed scanners that i just took out
the inverters and wired them up to the NEC's supply now the backlights
are lite up and the monitor works great. Again Thanks for the idea