Busting LCDs ( was: Re: just blew up my 17" monitor )
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Mon Nov 10 08:07:28 UTC 2003
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On Monday 10 November 2003 07:02, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The problem comes if the drive signal has a DC component. That will
> electromigrate the LCD crystals perpendicularly, towards the face or
There's something to this, since I dimly recall LCDs have weird tri-level
driving signals and the 'inversion interlace' thing to avoid any DC even when
the colour is static sounds familiar too.
> This might be something for video driver writers to be cognisant of.
Happily this is the kind of thing people avoid for epilepsy reasons :-)
Also sounded familiar from here....
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=76469&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
- -Andy
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