{"id":96,"date":"2011-09-17T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"5e3e277f-1469-481c-818a-0ed3b820f618"},"modified":"2011-09-18T06:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T06:15:52","slug":"teach-your-kids-to-read-data-sheets-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Teach your kids to read data sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>So I just spent a frustrating afternoon fixing a laptop LCD.  My daughter dropped her eee pc and broke the screen.  She ordered the wrong replacement. After getting screwed on shipping and brokerage fees for the display, a $34 display became $100.  I did not want to  RMA this new wrong screen since itwould cost more than the display was worth in the first place.  I installed the new screen anyway.  It even worked except for the backlight.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I figured I had nothing to lose so I pulled the data sheets for both displays, old and new, and compared them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bambooz.pytalhost.net\/eeePC\/AUOptronics_A089SW01_V0.pdf\">Old display A089SW01 <\/a>?<a href=\"http:\/\/bambooz.pytalhost.net\/eeePC\/AUOptronics_B089AW01_V0.pdf\">New display B089AW01 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new display had an enable line for the backlight.  I put a pullup on the enable line, and now there is light.  yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just spent a frustrating afternoon fixing a laptop LCD. My daughter dropped her eee pc and broke the screen. She ordered the wrong replacement. After getting screwed on shipping and brokerage fees for the display, a $34 display &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=96\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}