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Former Member over 11 years ago

Hey,

I have a raspberry pi and I bought this little monitor for it: http://www.amazon.com/3-5-Inch-TFT-Monitor-Automobile/dp/B0045IIZKU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395790355&sr=8-1&keywords=Mini+Lcd+Screen+Raspberry+Pi

It has the same "type" RCA port as the pi, so I wanted to take the port of the pi and monitor so I didn't have to drag around extra stuff and I thought it would be easy and a learning experience.

Unfortunately it is not working, the pi itself seems fine the area around the port may be damaged, but the rest if not all still works. As for the monitor, I have no idea if it is still working, it has to have a signal to work and the pi/monitor isn't responding to each other. I've attached some photos of what they currently "look like".

Red is Positive

Black is Ground

Yellow is Video

White is Sound

Red and black I have been connecting to the battery (to power the monitor).

Yellow I have been connecting to the pi.

And I have not been using the white.

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    0 iagorubio over 11 years ago

    Hello Michael.

     

    Sorry for the delay, had a couple of hard days at work.

     

    Whatching the pictures again I am not so sure about what I told you because those cables don't seem come be from the RCA connectors.

     

    The power line are those cables with the fuse on them. If you unscrew the fuse holder you can use alligator clips to power the screen.

     

    Just grab the positive to the wire coming out of the fuse holder and the negative to the power RCA connector with care of not touching the pin into it.

     

     

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    May be in this other picture you can see it better,

     

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    You can solder the power lines directly into the connector on the PCB.

     

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    As for the connection for the signal cable I used an RCA cable, much easier than to get out the PCB RCA socket, but from my tests the pad on the Raspberry that's connected to the signal wire on the screen connector is the right one looking at the back of the Pi, left one looking from the front of it (In the picture is the one being touch by the black probe).

     

    image

     

    Remember this is a car device so it may need around 12V to work.

     

    Not much help I am sorry.

     

    Best luck with your project.

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    0 iagorubio over 11 years ago

    Hello Michael.

     

    Sorry for the delay, had a couple of hard days at work.

     

    Whatching the pictures again I am not so sure about what I told you because those cables don't seem come be from the RCA connectors.

     

    The power line are those cables with the fuse on them. If you unscrew the fuse holder you can use alligator clips to power the screen.

     

    Just grab the positive to the wire coming out of the fuse holder and the negative to the power RCA connector with care of not touching the pin into it.

     

     

    Fullscreen 3438.contentimage_176392.html Download
    <html><head><title>Jive SBS</title></head>
    <body><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
    <b>Error</b><br><font size="-1">
    An general error occurred while processing your request.
    </font></font></body></html>
    

     

    May be in this other picture you can see it better,

     

    Fullscreen 1385.contentimage_176393.html Download
    <html><head><title>Jive SBS</title></head>
    <body><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
    <b>Error</b><br><font size="-1">
    An general error occurred while processing your request.
    </font></font></body></html>
    

     

    You can solder the power lines directly into the connector on the PCB.

     

    Fullscreen 7242.contentimage_176394.html Download
    <html><head><title>Jive SBS</title></head>
    <body><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
    <b>Error</b><br><font size="-1">
    An general error occurred while processing your request.
    </font></font></body></html>
    

     

    As for the connection for the signal cable I used an RCA cable, much easier than to get out the PCB RCA socket, but from my tests the pad on the Raspberry that's connected to the signal wire on the screen connector is the right one looking at the back of the Pi, left one looking from the front of it (In the picture is the one being touch by the black probe).

     

    image

     

    Remember this is a car device so it may need around 12V to work.

     

    Not much help I am sorry.

     

    Best luck with your project.

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