cathode light back on LCD screen to light room?

battlingpig · 04-27-2007, 04:15 PM

Hi, a while ago i came accross a website which showed a picture of a persons pc screen which had a blue cold cathode tube at the back of it which had a homemade switch and was wired into the pc (i think onto a molex) i was just wondering if anyone else had ever tried doing this before and was wondering if anyone knew how to make one of those things actually work? thanks

PDonahoe · 04-29-2007, 08:46 PM

I used these to backlight my monitor. They plug into a regular AC outlet, and you can configure them in a variety of ways.

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/store...roductId=11158

PDonahoe · 04-29-2007, 08:55 PM

Here are what mine look like. You can see a row of them across the top, but I also have two hidden behind to monitor to give the blue glow behind the monitor.

minster9 · 05-05-2007, 08:04 PM

hmmm,interesting.

04-27-2007, 04:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
battlingpig Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2 OS: xp	cathode light back on LCD screen to light room? Hi, a while ago i came accross a website which showed a picture of a persons pc screen which had a blue cold cathode tube at the back of it which had a homemade switch and was wired into the pc (i think onto a molex) i was just wondering if anyone else had ever tried doing this before and was wondering if anyone knew how to make one of those things actually work? thanks

04-29-2007, 08:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
PDonahoe Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 113 OS: XP Pro SP2	Re: cathode light back on LCD screen to light room? I used these to backlight my monitor. They plug into a regular AC outlet, and you can configure them in a variety of ways. http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/store...roductId=11158

05-05-2007, 08:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
minster9 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 176 OS: windows 2000	Re: cathode light back on LCD screen to light room? hmmm,interesting.