21 Jul
2016
21 Jul
'16
12:13 a.m.
No, I'm not convinced the EL repro isn't a driver electronics issue.
I'm just a little confused about why the issue congregates at the edges of
the displays. Any ideas why that might be?
I may try swapping the panels around this evening if I am feeling brave.
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
On 2016-Jul-20, at 12:52 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
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Ian Finder
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ian.finder at gmail.com
I have a few GRiD compass systems and some are
suffering from massively
decreased contrast on the edges of the displays:
[See the system on the left]
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIGGzUzgat-/?taken-by=tr1nitr0n
[Or this one:]
http://www.ripstick.com/USCM/images/Grid_Compass_1101_Laptop_in_Box_002.jpg
Meanwhile, other EL systems I have- like my HP integral PC- haven't
succumbed to this.
I have seen similar issues on amLCD displays in my Tadpole, Toshiba and
other machines, so this is something we all may have to confront.
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I was wondering if the folks here had theories?
I'm thinking moisture (or air) might be leaking in from the edges of the
glass panes, perhaps from a compromised seal- sorry for the silly picture
but you can see the composition of the display here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/6BXaLBtSzd/?taken-by=tr1nitr0n
Does anyone know how one might prevent this from progressing- storage
tips?
Could it be reversed?
Better yet, does anyone have ideas on how to rapidly dehydrate the
display?
Perhaps there is even a way to re-seal them.
I think all two-glass-pane displays that don't have a vacuum may
eventually
succumb to this.
Perhaps it is just oxidation and not moisture, but I'd love to hear any
theories.
Are you convinced this is a panel problem rather than a driver electronics
problem?
In one picture it looks like the sort of thing that happens when you have
to turn up the brightness (for some types of display), resulting in partial
illumination in other areas of the screen.
I've never had opportunity to repair or work on EL flat-panel displays,
I'm not familiar with the driving techniques and requirements, so this is
just a query/guess. (I see it's an X/Y matrix drive scheme, but the
voltages & timing & phasing I don't know about.)