4 PSone defective screens. Ebay junk repairing

So I saw this ebay listing here while randomly browsing. Dont think I ever hit the buy it now button so fast in my life. 25$ for 4 of em.

Short story: I was able to get 3 of them fully working and now don't know what to do with em. I was also wondering if any of you could help me get the 4th one working. The screen and bulb are fully functional, but it will only display a black bar about an inch thick. Swapping around different parts I know its the motherboard that has an issue.



Long story: Screens a,b,c,d

Screen A has some motherboard issue where it will only display a black bar on the screen with no back light. As such I used the inverter to fix screen D

Screen B was in perfect condition functionally. but it's casing was destroyed and power cable cut. So I used the casing and connectors from screen A

Screen C the inverter had somehow lifted from the board on one side. I restored the trace by soldering a wire to the contacts the trace connected to.

Screen D had a burnt out inverter. It even deformed the plastic casing. Replaced it with the inverter from screen A and used the back casing from screen B as it was still good.

If anyone knows how to fix screen A let me know.
If you know what I can do with these screens now also let me know.






And just something interesting to note. Screen D had a different PCB color green than the others. The wires were also all red/white instead of white/blue like in the others. I wonder why that would be.

 

If you don't want to use them for handheld portable projects you can get decent money from them on forums that do, or ebay.

 

Yeah these screens seem to be the screen of choice for people making portables over at Bacteria's forum. You could always offer them up there.

 

Alright thanks I'll go check it out. I have the skill but not the tools to make a portable. Mainly missing anything that could make a body

 

Have a look at that forum. There's a lot of info including casing etc... might be a nice project to take on

 

I particularly have one of these and it's extremely useful (I prefer to keep it as it is originally instead of taking it apart to make a dedicated handheld thing...)

One idea that I had would maybe gut a dead PSONE and make it into a sort of A/V/RGB POD for the screen so it could be used as a portable general use monitor instead of making it into something that only does one thing. And gutting a dead PSONE makes it so the thing still has it's original connections, meaning it will work just fine when connected to a working PSONE. Does that sound good ?

 

Hi, I was wondering if you still have one of those screens? I need to fix my screen. But I dont have any repairing skills, so a plan B to found a replacement could be usefull.