iMac screen re-purposing
Hallo,
A few weeks ago my old iMac decided to die, and the apple store said it was the logic board and it is not worth fixing. Now what is a young engineer to do with that but take apart the computer and try and find other uses for the parts? Unfortunately the only parts I might be able to use are the screen and the hard drive.
Now my problem comes in that I can not find the specifications for the screen, and I need those to figure out what all the pins on the cable do.
The panel is a LM171W02-TLB1 by LG
LG says to contact the manufacturer of the computer
and I can not find the pin layout for this product online, I can find similar ones but the pins are different in each sub model
I might be able to guess which data line does what but I will need to make my own power supply first and even then it is unlikely to be able to guess what all of the non-color data ones do(clock, and a few more i cant guess)
any input would be helpful
and is there any place where I can email apple for the pdf specifications?
an example of what I am looking for is at: http://www.beyondinfinite.com/lcd/Li...M171W02-A4.pdf
thanks
A few weeks ago my old iMac decided to die, and the apple store said it was the logic board and it is not worth fixing. Now what is a young engineer to do with that but take apart the computer and try and find other uses for the parts? Unfortunately the only parts I might be able to use are the screen and the hard drive.
Now my problem comes in that I can not find the specifications for the screen, and I need those to figure out what all the pins on the cable do.
The panel is a LM171W02-TLB1 by LG
LG says to contact the manufacturer of the computer
and I can not find the pin layout for this product online, I can find similar ones but the pins are different in each sub model
I might be able to guess which data line does what but I will need to make my own power supply first and even then it is unlikely to be able to guess what all of the non-color data ones do(clock, and a few more i cant guess)
any input would be helpful
and is there any place where I can email apple for the pdf specifications?
an example of what I am looking for is at: http://www.beyondinfinite.com/lcd/Li...M171W02-A4.pdf
thanks
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