NE1 know about power supplies in flat screen monitors?

[krusty the klown]

Hi,

Does anyone know what sort of PSU is inside a flatscreen monitor??

I was wondering whether they can run off a modified sine wave (MSW) inverter. If they have a switching PSU, then they should be OK. Sometimes, you can have trouble running transformers off MSW supplies... stereos can hum and tellys can have lines on the screen - that sort of stuff, but switch mode stuff seems OK.

Has anyone sucessfully done this???

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[nilknarf]

I assume you are referring to an LCD panel, right?

If there is an external power supply, I would guess that as long as you provide the correct voltage (AC or CD, whichever applies), it shouldn't be a problem. If the supply is internal, then it is probably a solid-state (switching) supply.

The worst case is, you fry the screen.

Good Luck!
Tim

[krusty the klown]

Yeah, the LCD panels.

A guy at work's got one, so I'll have a look at that.

Cheers.

[Graham]

Krusty,
Just an educated ha! guess, but LCD's are very low voltage and current devices, the only thing is the backlight.
Backlights are some sort of electro-fluorescent device and there is, in a laptop screen an inverter to get the voltage up to drive it.

G