replacing SL-5500 front-light with LED or similar?

[sashby11]

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!

[matt]

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