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		13of40 on Feb 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper Maybe I'm remembering old tech, but doesn't that also have thousands of volts in it?

NavinF on Feb 22, 2022 [–]

You are! My first laptop ~15 years ago had a super thin (1mm?) fluorescent tube below the panel where the flex PCB would be. It used thousands of volts to start the backlight.

My panel (and anything from the last decade) uses LED backlights so I would not expect anything above 60V.

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