Author Topic: carolcat dissects another computer monitor (IT BEGINS on page 3)  (Read 5840 times)

so around the start of the school year i was helping the EAST lab at my school troubleshoot computer problems (such service that has landed my "apprentice" and i an honorary seat in my district's IT department) and helped take out a bunch of faulty monitors
well the teacher was good friends with my sister and so she's pretty positive towards me and as such gives me a lot of extra privileges
these privileges include letting me take home a faulty monitor to dissect it

so the monitor sat around for like, two months before i finally got around to taking it apart
after about an hour's work, here are my results:


the overview of the mess i made


circuit board stuff


the silver circle thingies are the monitor speakers and the orange thing is the control board from the front of the monitor, the rest of the stuff in that bag is stuff like lcd number things, microchips, and wires from my dad's days in electrical engineering


the back of the screen itself, i haven't taken it apart yet due to the ominous warning about mercury being in the screen's fluorescent lamp


the front of the screen


the dumbass who kept trying to eat all of the screws

some of these pictures are bad so if you want better ones then let me know

discuss i guess and tell me if taking apart that screen will be the worst decision of my life or not
« Last Edit: December 08, 2013, 04:42:40 PM by carolcat »


i don't really feel like this would go in creativity
looks like it's just a regular LCD screen, no real reason not to take it apart (no reason to do so either, but well)

i don't really feel like this would go in creativity
looks like it's just a regular LCD screen, no real reason not to take it apart (no reason to do so either, but well)
i've never taken one apart before and it was broken anyways so i figured "lets see what it looks like"
i guess i was just a dangerous mixture of tired and bored and just wanted something interesting to do

poor cat D:
he eventually gave up on eating the screws when i got onto him a couple of times



I hope you're discharging the capacitors as you go along...

i'm pretty sure she used them to charge herself as she went along

...
carolcat is a robot, right

what have you done to *facepalm*'s brother.

i'm not getting this yet, are electronics a special interest to carolcat?

i'm pretty sure she used them to charge herself as she went along

...
carolcat is a robot, right
obviously
we all feed on pure electric power

This is the worst life decision you've ever made.

i'm pretty sure she used them to charge herself as she went along
...
carolcat is a robot, right
indeed

i'm not getting this yet, are electronics a special interest to carolcat?
mechanophilia
i want to forget hot robots basically

I hope you're discharging the capacitors as you go along...
uhhh i had it unplugged for months, does that count?

This is the worst life decision you've ever made.
wwel forget

I am jelly of your technical knowledge.

I am jelly of your technical knowledge.
all i really did was unplug some screws