Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
EDIT: THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL VIDEO. I WILL DO ONE WHEN I FIND ANOTHER TV TO HACK OR IF I DECIDE TO TAKE DOWN ONE OF THE OTHER ONES TO SHOW WHAT I DID.
UPDATE: I figured out how to turn on the power supply. I connected the +5V rail to the on/off wire and the power supply came on. I had a meter on the 24 volt rail and when I touched the 5V to on/off it said 24 volts. And I connected the power on wire on the inverter they turned on and the backlight came on. I secured everything and eliminated unnecessary wires. I mounted this as a shop light. I did another TV like this and got it going too. The PS had all the pinouts written on the board and I touched 5V to PSon and BLon (cannot remember exactly) and the backlights came on. I tried this with an LCD monitor but it got fried. I am trying to make an awesome fluorescent light out of a trash picked LCD TV. I was able to do this with another LCD TV and is now serving as an awesome shop light but the power supplies in both TVs are different. Some of the CCFL bulbs in the trash picked TV were broken but not all and it should still work. the inverters are wired in a master and slave configuration and they both run on the 24 volt rail. This trick can be done with any LCD TV or monitor with CCFL backlighting and to do this you remove all the guts except the PSU the CCFL inverters and backlight. (Some have separate boards for power supply and inverter and some are a power supply and inverter in one board) And remove the LCD panel and every filter except the stiff white one. You can remove the outer plastic casing and leave on the inner metal case. I think it looks cooler that way. You can mount it in your shop or garage. According to Grants Pass TV Repair the average power usage is abut 100 watts but worth it. It gets a lot brighter once it warms up. Thanks for watching.
Grants Pass TV Repair's video on how to do this hack
youtube.com/watch?v=gPpy-HX9wFg
EDIT: THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL VIDEO. I WILL DO ONE WHEN I FIND ANOTHER TV TO HACK OR IF I DECIDE TO TAKE DOWN ONE OF THE OTHER ONES TO SHOW WHAT I DID.
UPDATE: I figured out how to turn on the power supply. I connected the +5V rail to the on/off wire and the power supply came on. I had a meter on the 24 volt rail and when I touched the 5V to on/off it said 24 volts. And I connected the power on wire on the inverter they turned on and the backlight came on. I secured everything and eliminated unnecessary wires. I mounted this as a shop light. I did another TV like this and got it going too. The PS had all the pinouts written on the board and I touched 5V to PSon and BLon (cannot remember exactly) and the backlights came on. I tried this with an LCD monitor but it got fried. I am trying to make an awesome fluorescent light out of a trash picked LCD TV. I was able to do this with another LCD TV and is now serving as an awesome shop light but the power supplies in both TVs are different. Some of the CCFL bulbs in the trash picked TV were broken but not all and it should still work. the inverters are wired in a master and slave configuration and they both run on the 24 volt rail. This trick can be done with any LCD TV or monitor with CCFL backlighting and to do this you remove all the guts except the PSU the CCFL inverters and backlight. (Some have separate boards for power supply and inverter and some are a power supply and inverter in one board) And remove the LCD panel and every filter except the stiff white one. You can remove the outer plastic casing and leave on the inner metal case. I think it looks cooler that way. You can mount it in your shop or garage. According to Grants Pass TV Repair the average power usage is abut 100 watts but worth it. It gets a lot brighter once it warms up. Thanks for watching.
Grants Pass TV Repair's video on how to do this hack
youtube.com/watch?v=gPpy-HX9wFg
