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thecheat:

You absolutely will not be able to just splice a longer cord into a laptop LCD. LCD screens use a flexible plastic sheet with copper traces etched on it which are difficult to solder if you have enough space but the traces are usually 1/32" wide with just about as much space between them.

What you MIGHT be able to do is remove the hinges and mount the LCD panel on the bottom of the laptop - assuming there is enough ribbon cable in there. Usually the cable is wound around one of the hinges and there can be an extra inch or two of slack.

You're better off removing the panel entirely and using an external LCD, much less trouble to do that. If your panel is in good shape, you might be able to sell it on Ebay and recoup some of the money spent on the external screen.

thecheat:


--- Quote from: Bender on June 15, 2009, 05:14:37 pm ---you can flip the screen around so it faces up when the laptop is "Closed"
I don't know if you have enough room but if the laptop will fit in the space closed then it should work.
If you do it that way you shouldn't have to extend the cables
I did it on one of my projects and it worked great in the end (after a bit of work to get it apart and put back together again) and I can run the whole thing off the battery

It's a little hard to tell on this pic but the keyboard is right behind the screen, you just have to use a USB keyboard and mouse to work on it




What he said (while I was composing my post :) ). I did the same on a digital picture frame, the Dell I used ended up getting its motherboard hot-glued to the back of the LCD panel and works great.



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