I hate to see newer TV's go in the garbage. Recently I was at our local firehall as they filled bin after bin with defective TV's as part of our towns cleanup. Many, if not most TV's were just having issues with the backlighting. I even brought a 55" model home to repair. Anyway, I had a 37" TV that had the older fluorescent tubes for backlighting. I watched as one, then two, then three of the tubes went out. Then the TV quit, no backlight. So I thought I would fix it with LED strips just for the fun of it.
At first I tried RGBW LED's because I had them on hand. They did not work well at all. Amoung other issues some of them came loose and fell against the screen becoming very visable.
Then I used some 12 volt LED strips. I added glue to make sure they stayed in place as well as stuffing the LED strip ends under the plastic edges at both ends. Total cost $18 for the LED strips.
Putting the TV back together...
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