lcd panel compatibility quotation

It is possible to replace a LCD with another model and it shouldn"t cause long-term issue. I"ve been replacing panels by random eBay or "local Craigslist" ones, or swapping from other laptops for a long time, and if it works then there"s no reason for it to fail because it"s not the original one.

� Dimensions: obviously if you want it to fit correctly you have to chose the same diagonal size, this is often given directly in the model number (eg. LTN156AT32 is a 15.6" LCD). But you also have to look at the actual outer height and width for it to fit perfectly (it"s rare but sometimes you have a few mm difference and it won"t fit). Also, in some rare cases the thickness can matter too.

� Mountings: if it"s a "slim" panel (no metal case all around the panel, circuit board on the bottom protected by black tape), you can have a variety of mounting tabs (none at all, on the side, top/bottom�). If it"s a "standard" panel (with metal case all around), you either screw the hinges directly or there are screwable tabs, the screw position should be the same on all panels.

� Channels: 1, 2, 4 channels� linked to the definition, the higher the definition the higher the number of channels required. A 1-channel panel on a 2-channel motherboard should work, but not the opposite. With LVDS, if you use 2-channels panel on 1-channel board, typically the odd columns will be gray. Sometimes you can swap a 1-channel panel to a 2-channel panel (to get higher definition) because the laptop is actually designed to take the 2 definition. The 2nd channel needs to be enabled and routed to the LVDS connector, and the cable has to have the required wires (some rare laptops have 2 different cables for the 2 different definitions available).

� Bit depth: 6-bit (262k colors) or 8-bit (16.7M colors), rarely matters, on laptops you can typically exchange between the 2. It"s relevant on desktop monitors where the panel configuration is programmed statically in the scaler, if you use the wrong type you"ll have scrambled image.

� Connector pinout: pinout is standard, if you match the protocol and the connector type you should have the same pinout. One exception though, the large pitch LVDS on desktop panels has the pinout reversed compared to laptop panels, if you pick the wrong one (desktop panels usually don"t fit in laptop but you never know) you can indeed fry the board.

� Connector placement: typically CCFL panels have the connector on top and LED panels have the connector on the bottom. Horizontal positioning can vary so always compare with a picture. Some laptops that are sold with different panel have different cables depending on the connector position.

CCFL: not used anymore on 2009+ laptops, some desktop monitors used it for a bit longer. Typically the connector is always the same on laptop, on desktop monitors you have a 2 pins (same as on laptop) and a 3 pins (middle pin is not connected). You can also have more than one tube on larger panels.

LED: with integrated backlight driver or external backlight driver. Most laptops use panel with integrated backlight driver, they send the 19V directly to the display. Most desktops have the backlight driver on the mainboard or the power supply board.

� Panel orientation: this is a bit of an odd one and never seen it on laptop, but I had the case of a desktop panel that was addressed "upside-down". No way to know it beforehand, and the original panel was not available, so I rotated the display in Windows, not very good as BIOS was still showing upside-down�

� EDID whitelist: some rare laptops may have a whitelist for panels. Seen that only on a couple of older ones with LVDS, in that case you have to use a panel with very close characteristics (definition, bit depth, refresh rate) and swap (or flash) the EDID ROM chip; it"s a 24-series I2C ROM.

While it"s not a whitelist, some machines may have the EDID panel configuration statically defined in the BIOS, in that case you also have to use a panel with very close characteristics. It"s very rare on laptops, I think some Chromebooks with Coreboot did it� On desktop monitors it"s commonly the case as I said earlier, the panel configuration is in the scaler firmware on the mainboard.

There are certain combination of parameters that are extremely common, the 15.6" LVDS panel with LED backlight (integrated backlight driver), 1366x768 definition, "standard" shape (non-slim), connector on bottom left� This is typically used on your low to mid-range 15" consumer laptop from Acer, Toshiba, HP� 2008 to 2014 or something like that. So yeah, those are easy to find and won"t cause much trouble, there are loads of different models that are compatible.

And now, Apple: as expected, most of this doesn"t apply with Apple panels. You have to use the original panel on Macbooks. Connector and pinout can be proprietary, they use a backlight driver on the mainboard rather than on the panel, panel shape and dimensions aren"t like other laptops, they have an EDID whitelist, and you can"t even use a 2013/2014 Retina panel on a 2015 Retina even though they have the same characteristics because they decided that backlight should be controlled a bit differently� Same for newer iMac. On old iMac like 2006 models you could swap the panel but it was a bit involving: there is an EDID whitelist so you have to swap the ROM, they used a desktop panel for the 17" iMac so pinout is reversed, it"s thicker and has special mountings, and it has 2 CCFL tubes (laptops 17" panels have only one) so you have to connect a dummy tube behind the panel.

Touch panels are another beast, and I haven"t had to replace a fused panel yet but if you do, you have to use the original panel as well (since the digitizer is pretty much designed for a specific model). For non-fused panel (where you can separate LCD from digitizer) then you can use another model if it fits properly.

Hey everybody. I recently bought an Aluminum iMac with a 24 inch LG Philips brand model LM240WU2 SL B3 LCD Panel. The screen got cracked, and now I have a 1400 dollar paperweight. Apple told me that the computer, which IS under warranty, is NOT covered for the LCD panel because it was not hardware failure, but the fault of the EU (I always thought applecare covered broken LCD... more money wasted, I guess). They quoted me something astronomical for the screen replacement that, for the price, would almost be worth buying a new iMac.

My question is, what kind of 24 inch LCD Panels are compatible with this computer? It has 3 cables- a small, flat 4 pin connector which plugs in to a small receptacle chip glued to the top of the monitor, a larger pin connector that I assume is power, and the standard alligator clip cord that I assume is video data. I want to know what monitors are compatible and will work seamlessly with my computer. I can do the surgery myself. You can spare the words of discouragement. I"ve already opened it up and removed the broken LCD, and bought a replacement outer glass, so I know how to install the hypothetical replacement LCD.

My online searches for the LM240WU2 SL B3 have only yielded bulk retailers who want to sell 300 at a time, or "welovemacs" and their famous 400% markup. Any help would be appreciated. I"d like it to be glossy as opposed to matte, since that"s what it was before hand, but if you know ANY LCD panels that will work, I will look into them. Thank you.

A wide variety of compatible lcd panel options are available to you, You can also choose from original manufacturer, odm compatible lcd panel,As well as from tft, ips, and standard.

The FD70CV-M-C-6 is a special mission high-resolution panel mount 7” widescreen NVG Compatible Monitor on a pivoting, rotating arm. The LCD features NVG compatibility which can be switched to day or night mode using the rocker switch conveniently located at the top of the display.

FD70CV-M-C-2 – features NVG, SR, and 5 membrane buttons on the bottom front of LCD. Additional feature is a rocker switch on the right side of the membrane switch panel, controls the converter, switching between the HD-SDI loop out and VGA, Composite or HDMI inputs. The display accepts SDI/HD-SDI input.

FD70CV-M-C-6 – features NVG, SR, and 5 membrane buttons on the top front of LCD. Additional features include connectors for wired internal FD104DMT and 2 Composite and 1 VGA input. Uses FD104DMT mount.

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The TwoView Micro (dual display), SlimLine Micro and Rack Mount Hinge series consist of 1U and 2U high rack mount, flip-up and flip-down military-grade LCD monitors in a rack mount drawer. Options include sunlight readable displays, LED backlights, NVIS goggle compatibility, touch screens, multiple video inputs and more. They have been used in military applications such as:

The TwoView (dual display), SlimLine 1U and SlimLine Lite II series consist of 1U and 2U high rack mount, flip-up military-grade LCD monitors with integral keyboards and trackballs in a rack mount drawer. Options include sunlight readable displays, LED backlights, NVIS goggle compatibility, touch screens, multiple video inputs, keyboards and more. They have been used in military applications such as:

The Barracuda series consists of NEMA 4/6 and IP67 environmentally sealed rack mount, panel mount and standalone/VESA mount military-grade and COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) LCD monitors. Options include sunlight readable displays, LED backlights, NVIS goggle compatibility, touch screens, multiple video inputs and more. The marine-grade

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The Large Area Display 20 x 8 (LAD-2008) is an advanced cockpit display that features a fully redundant 20 x 8 in. active area LCD with no mullion and multi-touch screen technology. This display system incorporates patented optical design techniques to provide outstanding brightness and contrast ratio, with reduced reflections in high ambient conditions. NVG compatibility ensures situational awareness in all phases of flight, and the color gamut enhancement techniques combined with 16.7 million color-depth results in improved detection, recognition, and identification with sensor matching performance. The LAD-2008 also meets MIL-STD and DO-160 environmental standards, as well as EMI/EMC-compliant, which ensures reliability and performance in demanding applications.

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, flat-panel displays (including liquid-crystal displays) and projection displays using fixed picture-element (pixel) arrays.

One use of the term display resolution applies to fixed-pixel-array displays such as plasma display panels (PDP), liquid-crystal displays (LCD), Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors, OLED displays, and similar technologies, and is simply the physical number of columns and rows of pixels creating the display (e.g. 1920 × 1080). A consequence of having a fixed-grid display is that, for multi-format video inputs, all displays need a "scaling engine" (a digital video processor that includes a memory array) to match the incoming picture format to the display.

Most television display manufacturers "overscan" the pictures on their displays (CRTs and PDPs, LCDs etc.), so that the effective on-screen picture may be reduced from 720 × 576 (480) to 680 × 550 (450), for example. The size of the invisible area somewhat depends on the display device. Some HD televisions do this as well, to a similar extent.

The availability of inexpensive LCD monitors made the 5∶4 aspect ratio resolution of 1280 × 1024 more popular for desktop usage during the first decade of the 21st century. Many computer users including CAD users, graphic artists and video game players ran their computers at 1600 × 1200 resolution (UXGA) or higher such as 2048 × 1536 QXGA if they had the necessary equipment. Other available resolutions included oversize aspects like 1400 × 1050 SXGA+ and wide aspects like 1280 × 800 WXGA, 1440 × 900 WXGA+, 1680 × 1050 WSXGA+, and 1920 × 1200 WUXGA; monitors built to the 720p and 1080p standard were also not unusual among home media and video game players, due to the perfect screen compatibility with movie and video game releases. A new more-than-HD resolution of 2560 × 1600 WQXGA was released in 30-inch LCD monitors in 2007.

In 2010, 27-inch LCD monitors with the 2560 × 1440 resolution were released by multiple manufacturers, and in 2012, Apple introduced a 2880 × 1800 display on the MacBook Pro. Panels for professional environments, such as medical use and air traffic control, support resolutions up to 4096 × 21602048 × 2048 pixels).

When a computer display resolution is set higher than the physical screen resolution (native resolution), some video drivers make the virtual screen scrollable over the physical screen thus realizing a two dimensional virtual desktop with its viewport. Most LCD manufacturers do make note of the panel"s native resolution as working in a non-native resolution on LCDs will result in a poorer image, due to dropping of pixels to make the image fit (when using DVI) or insufficient sampling of the analog signal (when using VGA connector). Few CRT manufacturers will quote the true native resolution, because CRTs are analog in nature and can vary their display from as low as 320 × 200 (emulation of older computers or game consoles) to as high as the internal board will allow, or the image becomes too detailed for the vacuum tube to recreate (i.e., analog blur). Thus, CRTs provide a variability in resolution that fixed resolution LCDs cannot provide.

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