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I recently bought a control board kit on ebay, so that I could try to turn my old Mac Book into an external monitor. When I received it, I tried it out and it worked so no problem up until I was making the casing for the monitor and I dropped the back-light inverter hard on the floor. So now it doesn’t work. My question is then: Can I take the back-light inverter, from my Mac Book and maybe do some wiring so that the new control board can send power to the old inverter? Below you can see the new control board + inverter and the old inverter from the original Mac Book (The one that is not connected to the control board) .
Kind regards -Kris
Kristoffer Oftebro-Svendsen from the controller board to the inverter the Red should be ground, Black should be 12V+ and Yellow will be on/off and adjust (brightness). Now we need to try to find out what the wiring is for the original inverter. From the Apple 607-1961 number it looks like your panel came out of a MacBook A1181 Use your multimeter and check for continuity between the two points on the image. That looks like the + for your inverter.
Do the same with the connector on the opposite end. If it is the - it should show 0 continuity. the 4 wires on your inverter should be VCC + Ground Light on Brightness adjust the inverter connector on your computers motherboard is shown in this schematic
Only issue with that is that the wiring harness does not follow the pinout on the board, but it does show you what you need to drive the inverter.
