kickinwing Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I bought my Lynx about a year ago off Ebay and it didn't bother me at first, but I've just now got around to playing it alot and the screen is very bright. The contrast is turned to the lowest setting and it's still very bright. Is this a common thing amongst Lynx II systems? I was thinking about buying another system but not if it's going to be the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Does the brightness dial have any effect whatsoever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickinwing Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 makes it brighter. It's turned completely down now and its bright, about a quarter of a turn and the screen is completely whited out by light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 makes it brighter. It's turned completely down now and its bright, about a quarter of a turn and the screen is completely whited out by light. My first action would be to open the unit up and completely swab down the brightness potentiometer and see if that made any difference, 'cos it sounds to me like pot strip has lost some of its resistence, and is allowing too much power through to the backlight. This could also be caused by the resistance strip wearing out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickinwing Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 that was what i was going to do but I thought about it and just wanted to make sure that the brightness was my Lynx or all Lynx units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickinwing Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 i couldn't find an edit button, sorry for the double post, but I was going to open it up, the pedo meter and pot strip, no clue what your talking about but I should be able to figure out what is causing the problem..Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Potentiometers are basically variable resistors; the further up the strip the contact goes the less resistance the electricity experiences and thus the more power gets to the desired component (in this case the backlight). If the strip is worn then there's less resistance overall and more electricity will get to the component. If there's conductive gunk on the strip then electricity, taking the path of least resistance as it does, will likely conduct through the gunk, making the reistance strip useless. (There are always exceptions depending on the type of wear or the amount/placement of gunk, but generally speaking it's a good rule of thumb) I'd break out the Q-Tips and rubbing alcohol and have at it. Lord knows enough sweaty-palmed action can have a way of seeping through openings and whatnot. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliott Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 If cleaning doesn't help I might have a spare non working board you could canabalize one from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickinwing Posted March 18, 2005 Author Share Posted March 18, 2005 after i had my Lynx and my GameGear side by side, i determined that there is nothing wrong with it but just the technology at the time. I shouldn't have compared the backlit of a Nintendo DS to a Lynx. Plus I also determined that the brightness varied from game to game, like Tournament Cyberball is really bright, but Gates of Zendecon looks fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmas Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I know what you're talking about. The screen on a Lynx IS very bright, in my opinion, and from my past experience you have to get it at the right angle with the right adjustment for it to be perfect. Then again that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 That's the problem with those old DSTN screens; they have a very narrow viewing angle, so you have to hold them the right way to get a respectable degree of viewability, both for brightness and contrast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Yes, this is all true in my opinion too. I always felt that the Lynx screen was to "washed out" colorwise, and that you had to turn the brightness down, dim or turn out the ambient lightning, and then hold the Lynx at the correct angle for maximum contrast to get a decently clear, colorful picture. I had a friend who had a Game Gear and it was the same way. Though this seemed true of the old gameboy and gameboy color as well, but I always felt they were worse becuase of a total lack of backlightning; I'll take the extra power consumtion for the backlighting anyday. I even have a Pentium 1 notebook PC with a screen that reacts the same. The Lynx screen was good overall for it's day. I havee heard of people doing white LED backlighting mods which apparently save power and helps with the screen contrast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmas Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 A mod for the Lynx?? Where at? You got my curiousity up. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 A mod for the Lynx?? Where at? You got my curiousity up. :-) Well, I don't have any links to mod instructions or anything like that. This was a mod a read a discussion about right here, around a year or two ago. Someone was talking about working on a mod to replace the standard Lynx backlighting with the newer white LEDs. I have no idea if it was successful or not, but IIRC, this was not the first person to try it, they had gotten the idea from someone else. Maybe if you do a "Lynx backlighting search or something you could turn up the old thread. It may have links or such too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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