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Upgrading a monitor's panel?

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succulent95

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Hi there. I was thinking about a new project to do for next year, and something came across my mind. I've just added a graphics card to my desktop so I can use dual displays and I was thinking of how nice it would be to have a IPS display. I currently have a Dell 1907fp and an Hanns G HX191D.
So, I wondering if it would be possible to upgrade one of the monitors I already had, or possibly buy a nice used monitor off eBay and remove the panel and swap it for a nice IPS one? Or would I have to completely gut the monitor of everything and start from scratch, as it were?

(I've been looking at getting a used Xerox 19" off eBay, as I've always liked the design, and with its capacitor problems, it seems the perfect candidate to use as a project)

Many thanks in advance.
 
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You would have to start completely from scratch. Go look up the different panel types and you'll immediately see why; even before then, how do you plan on attaching the panel? No offense, but the kind of electronics work required is probably also beyond your skill and/or seriously not worth your time, even if you're an EE.
 
it would only have any sense to swap tn to ips on 120hz monitor.

23" lg 120hz => 23" eips might work !!!!111
 
No, it would not. The three panel types do different things when voltage is applied to the pixels; going from TN to IPS would not produce a good image, if it produced one at all. The panels are also going to have different impedances, etc. than what the processors on the control circuitry are used to, so they won't be able to really do anything with the new panel. This means the electronics have to be replaced basically wholesale, and you may as well just go out and buy a new monitor at that point. I have no idea if, say, HP would even let you buy the chips and stuff they use to build their monitors separately.
 
op idea wont work eg 6bit vs 8bit
my idea on other hand might
panels take data and clocks by lvds. dont see reason why lg used diffrent conector just to prevent such mod

need to study datasheets :rolleyes:
 
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