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Title: replacing SL-5500 front-light with LED or similar?
Post by: sashby11 on May 30, 2004, 12:05:19 am

Just wondering if anyone has considered replacing their front-light with a newer LED light source or similar.  It seems this would dramatically enhance battery life, and solve screen brightness issues I\'ve read about.  Any thoughts on feasibility of this?  Thanks!

Title: replacing SL-5500 front-light with LED or similar?
Post by: matt on June 01, 2004, 04:45:06 am

Having just broken the frontlight in my SL-5500. I did consider this - briefly.
I thought about removing the inverter and powering a number of high-efficiency LEDs from the inverter inputs. I\'m not sure how uniform the light would be, or how the power consumption would compare to the CCFL.
Personally, I\'ve never had a problem with battery life of screen brightness from the original light.

Matt