Now THIS is hot news about your MPC !!!!

On my search for the holy grail of customizing;
>another backlight color for the display<,
I discovered some *very* interesting facts today.

The 1k's display is an industrial grade graphic LCD, with LED (!!!!!) backlighting, rated for at least 100000 hours of use !

>AKAI obviously made a wise decision, after the experiences in the past with EL-Foil on various products and cold cathode tubes on the 2000(XL) LED backlighting by far has the longest lifespan. It will dim only a little over a huge timespan and LED's are totally shockproof.

>On top of that, it has extended range temperature specs. This means an extra integrated hardware controller compensates for very high and low ambiant temperature artifacts.

>Changing out the LED's to obtain a different color is useless, as there's another serious technical obstacle. I won't go into high-tech details, simply take my word for it.

p.s. Even as a highly trained engineer, It was a hell of a job to not render the whole display assembly useless. You're warned !

p.s.2 Maybe "MPC3000" who mentioned he's well informed on AKAI development of future products can share some of his knowledge with us as well ? Maybe as an AA (anonymous Akai) user...



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I have the technical doc on it but I do not recall the rated hours. The assembly is from Powertip.

The problem with the former models was not the cathode-tube light but from the LCD itself. I have lots of cathode tube lights that I give install for free if needed for the MPC2k series that I remove from other bad LCD assemblies.

The big advantage of the LED lightning is power. Takes less.

mpc3000 wrote:I have the technical doc on it but I do not recall the rated hours. The assembly is from Powertip.

as is the LED hour quotation.

In fact, I liked to hear what you know about the development of the next MPC product, and if there's anything for the 1k's internal expansion bay in the pipeline. Even a simple yes or no to the last question would be interesting.

regards

p.s. I DO read my PM


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getting me all hyped up over some LED! that i cant even change!
though I would love to change the colour to blue!

Penfold wrote:getting me all hyped up over some LED! that i cant even change!
though I would love to change the colour to blue!

You could be happy about the long lifespan though !
Your MPC's not gonna loose half of it's lighting power after 5000 hours of use like with EL-Foil.

And about the colour:
Keep an eye on my future posts.

err blue, were you that Photoshop enthousiastic ?

"And about the colour:"

I am pretty sure Powertip makes the same assembly in different colors.

mpc3000 wrote:"And about the colour:"

I am pretty sure Powertip makes the same assembly in different colors.

Not exactly, as the assembly is custom made for AKAI.
The LSI programming wouldn't be interchangeable

Thanks Ryth very very cool. I was afraid to leave mine on when not using because of this but now I'm not trippin. I thought that yucky color was strangely familiar haha. No moving parts (HD) and no EL. Brilliant.

They have the same exact screen...

i have both.

i don't know who, but a member of this forum, already changed out the 1000 backlight and changed it to blue. they posted pics and all. it was dope

abunchofsounds wrote:i don't know who, but a member of this forum, already changed out the 1000 backlight and changed it to blue. they posted pics and all. it was dope

ever heard of that japanese soldier that lived in the woods until the 90's, still believing, WW-II was still going strong ?

yeah, he was on some island in the pacific got shot down and all he saw were americans so he hid out.

ok we now its was a good photoshop effect.
but it is possible cause I had the same custom job done on my Xbox.

yeah i forget who it was who posted pics with the blue LCD. it was a joke though. at first he let it go for a day or so then told peopel he faked it, then a few months later he revived the same pictures when someone mentiond wanting to chnage the LCD's. it was fake, always was. i think youd have to do more than sodder some wires. anyways, someone dig it up, i dont know how to use search

anyway sm ycomment on this, dotn even worry about it. you know the shift+data wheel thing to adjust the contrast? as long as dark is dark when you adjust it all the way, then your fine, and will be for a long time. untill the darkest isn't dark, then you gotta worry.... i think anyways...

also when i take like a 30 min break or something, then come back to my MPC, the screen will go a bit darker, or ligher, and i gotta re-adjust it...?

and who cares.... dont worry about a screen. go make some beats.

the screen gets warmer the longer its on.
my screen is always cold on first boot, then after a hour or two and also when my room has heated up the screen needs to adjusted cause on first boot i could not see it.