Author Archive:  Mark Rejhon

While waiting for a BENQ XL2411T monitor to arrive for testing, peckB from esreality forums, sent me this gem of a URL: Semtech.com – Specialized backlight LED drivers This could present some interesting electronics to experiment with for strobed backlights,...

The BlurBusters Lab is expanding!  Two new developments: (1) A Casio Exilim EX-FC200 has been obtained, for high speed (480fps, 1000fps) capture of scanning/impulse/flashing backlight patterns of existing and future LCD displays. (2) An open-source motion-blur tracking camera dolly is...

One set of LED ribbons have now arrived. They are BRIGHT! Color purity is good; they are definitely backlight-quality and extremely unfiorm. I will be using 900 LED’s (22 lumens each) as a backlight in a single 24″ computer monitor —...

Three different brands of LED ribbons have now been ordered from several suppliers.  The current working goal is to create a backlight that is 150 watts per square foot, with 10,000 lumens per square foot.   The brightest ribbon I’ve ordered is...

Designing a scientifically proper scanning backlight from scratch, for an existing LCD computer monitor, requires disassembling LCD’s. There is an LCD parts store page that has info useful during my research, including a YouTube video on how to disassemble LCD panels...