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Budget/Alernative Garage Lights
A while back I purchased a pallet of nine salvage big screen tvs. I fixed three of them and sold them recovering my cost for all nine. I saved a 65"TCL for myself. The remaining tvs had cracked screens and not worth repairing so I removed the LED/LCD panels and mounted them in the garage as lights.
I gotta say it works rather well.  
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Hey, whatever works!
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Reminds me of chicken little.... When the sky falls
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Not sure I want to stand under 60-70 pounds hanging overhead.........
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Not a single one weighs more than 10lbs.
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That's a great way of repurposing those!
I'll have to pass that along to my brother. I think he has a junk TV he could use that way.
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Take the diffuser skins off and they'll be much brighter! I swapped out some bad LED strips behind the panel of my old 43 inch TV, they're literally just standard LED chip strips behind a high quality diffuser panel.
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Pretty clever idea!
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I'm more impressed with the contents UNDER the lights! Nice.
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Wow. You impress me again, Kevin!
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Kevin - Could you post a pic of one of the panels with the lights off so we could see how it looks?
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Wow great idea. Nice light!
What with price of tvs today, could buy them new and it'd still be cheaper than a decent light panel. |
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   This one is 57"X33"X1.5" And for those who have not lifted a TV since grampa got his first color console tv back in 1954 this one weighs in at 8lbs.
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The wall panels are great-it really is a pro body shop thing, and makes a big difference.
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Cool, Thanks for the pic!
Hope you enjoy your Christmas back in cold country!
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1982 Porsche 911SC 3.0L warmed over
My former car
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