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Reusing old laptop display

Hi! I’ve recently discovered that you can repurpose an old laptop’s screen. So since I had an old dead Toshiba Satellite L50-A-1CU lying around I decided to extract the LCD panel and make it a new display.

Now, I’m not exactly the type of guy that knows the insides of computers like the palm of my hand. But still, I was able to extract the LP156WH3 TL S2 LCD panel.

The panel has a built-in 40 pin connector but it plugged into the motherboard with a 30 pin connector through a simple cable. With that in mind, I don’t know what controller board to get if a 40pin or a 30pin or even if that doesn’t matter.

Could someone help me?

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diogo.aleixo  great to reuse your panel. I always start of with the datasheet before trying to find a conversion LCD driver. So here is the one for your panel LP156WH3-TLS2.pdf. Then do a general online search and you’ll find something like this (no worries about the .ru it just pops up because I do my searches a bit different. The Aliexpress link comes up in the US version as well). It is listed as a fit for the LP156WH3 (TL) (S1) Here is the datasheet for that one LP156WH3-TLS1 Datenblatt, Spezifikation, Datasheet, Specification Check to see if the electrical connectors are identical. If so it’s a straight Plug and Play situation. If they are not, contact the seller and let them know the panel that you have. A lot of time they are willing to customize it to fit yours. This one sounds like a nice easy conversion and will allow you to use the old LCD for a multitude of things. Hope you’ll enjoy it

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Just did a quick check and all the connection on the 40 pin connector are identical. No reason that driver would not be a plug and play connection

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I wonder if there is a pre-done conversion kit that's available as a range of laptop display panels are widely used on lots of laptop models.

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@benjamen I have converted multiple old dispalys and the boards are pretty much all the same. The differnce is teh wiring of the panels LVDS connector. The cable that connects the driver board to the panel, is the secret. Hence the importance of the datasheets to compare. Not much of a standard for those and they can change even for the same type of panel with revision changes.

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