Question on Using TVs

[twitami]

Anyone ever decase a TV for a cabinet? I found a couple 27" HDTVs at Best Buy (Samsung and Insignia) which are not to expensive. The cabinets have speakers on the sides of the screen, so will not fit in my cabinet. But measuring the space between them, it seems that the tube itself would fit in a cab with 24" of horizontal space. Any thoughts?

Brian

[TOK]

I started to decase a Toshiba for use in my vertical cab. It has a compenent input, and I was disappointed to learn it had a neck that extended clear to the back of the TV case and had a huge and flimsy circuit board attached. Also that the base of the case had molded in slots for the other boards. It seemed like if I de-cased, I'd have to basically leave everything oriented exactly as it was in the case anyway. The leads to the boards were very short, etc.

Different TV's could be totally different inside, but here's a peek for you anyway!
Its hard to tell from the angle of the pic, but that neck board sticks out past the input board about 6 inches.


I probably would have had to figure out how to decase it for a horizontal cab due to the speaker position. Since I mounted this TV vertically, the extra 6" of space I would have saved on the sides didn't matter.

[twitami]

Yeah, mine is for a horizontal cab...I might not have a choice. I have 24" to work with

[albert_c]

I posted a thread asking about advice for a good 27" television that could be decased but no one replied.  I don't want to take apart a random one and find out it's no good.

[releasedtruth]

Decasing isn't a very popular subject on the boards. It pops up now and then, but by far it's older TVs that people take the shot with, rather than new rather expensive ones. Speaker on the sides models including the Toshibas I know aren't a great option. As for store brands like Insignia, I can only assume they are set up similarly as other brands.

GT

[Scumgriever]

I pulled my tv out of its case today and while its going to take quite a bit of doing I'm pretty confident that I can get it into the cabinet ok. My friend spilt half a can of Bundy over the back of the tube so I'm not so confident that it'll work once its in there.

Anyway, It has a plastic plate that slides into runners on the case and holds all the pcbs except the litle button and IR ones. Once the case is open it slides right outbut unfortunately the leads are quite short meaning that the plate will have to stay in almost the same position relative to the screen.
I'm going to build a shelf to screw the plastic plate to and then slot it all in place.

I have an old 26" LIA which it is a teeny-tiny bit small for (about 1cm) but a couple of corner pieces should do it.

Unfortunately I'm having a bit of brain fade and can't for the life of me remember what brand or model it is. I wont be back at the workshop for a couple of days but when I am I'll check and let you know. It took me lots of TVs to find this one.
Thankfully in this uber consumerist society I found all of them dumped on the side of the road (6 in 4months, and thats just the ones that looked promising). I guess lots of people are richer than me.
Leaving the TV in its case meant getting to small a tv for me and having much too much space around the sides of the screen, this way is definately more work but I think it should be worth the sweat.

[slider2732]

In July i found a 25" TV outside someone's house..the idea was that i was on the lookout for something for my Atari 720 cab (big monitors being big bucks).
Knocked on the door and the lady was glad to get rid of it!

Model number escapes me but it was a wooden surround thing. I can look on the back of the cab if anyone wants to know...cos that model fitted great. I took the thing apart over an hour or so and moved all the controls round to the back while fitting it. Cut some small pieces of wood to further replace the hole in the rear, where the original monitor would have sat and the whole thing lined up well. All TV controls are easibly accessible etc.
One word though on salvaged roadside TV's....make sure to wear rubber gloves, not just for the electrical risks but because of the amount of sharp edges and dead creatures ready to infect a naked pair of hands !


Here's the TV going in:





and fired up running Xevious.

[grantspain]

slider2732-that really is the way to do it,nice one

[Scumgriever]

Just a super quick update.

The model number of the TV I was talking about before which has all the PCBs attached to a handy removable plate is an

**EDIT**
TEAC CT-M5928TXT
**EDIT**

Haven't finished putting it in yet but hopefully today...

[albert_c]

It you could show us some pics afterwards that would be nice.

 

[Scumgriever]

Yay, monitor is in and looks good so far.

It was a piece of cake really.

You can see in the photo from the back the plastic plate I was talking about. It's attached by the blue screw on the left and one on the other side. 

The sheet of metal that its sitting on was there from the original monitor (I'm not sure what it was for but suits me to a T). I'm going to support it so it sits at the same angle as the moitor with a couple of brackets tomorrow which will keep the TV guts neatly away from the rest of my cabs workings, and lower the pull on that blue and brown wire.

Looks promising so far except the TV sits a little low in the frame meaning the bezel doesn't quite reach it. I'm going to have to figure out a super deep bezel somehow... or just mount the TV to some blocks to raise it.

[Scumgriever]

Oops just checked the model of the TV I used and realised that I posted the wrong one. the TV is a TEAC CT-M5928TXT.

I'll edit the post above too.

Sorry for any confusion.