Polaroid LCD-2000 Flat Screen TV running off XBOX 360 Power Brick

UPDATE: March 27 2011
As of this time I am using a universal remote for this TV. This will probably be the last update.

UPDATE: June 8, 2010
This TV is being used as a gaming TV it works great and I use it for gaming and watching DVDs. I just need to ask if they still have the remote to it and if not i'll just get a universal remote.


UPDATE: April 3, 2010
this TV is in my possession so its in good hands. I have made a video of me playing Bully on it and I will get that up soon. My XBOX 360 Brick and this TV are playing together just fine and it works like the day my friend bought it I love this TV. I might use this as a gaming TV so I can game while I watch TV I just need to get or build a stand for it b/c it doesnt have one just a wall mount. I am in the process of obtaining the wall mount I just need to get it from my friend.

UPDATE February 7, 2010:
This TV is officially mine. I talked to my friend yesterday about it and he's giving it to me b/c its not working for him and just taking up space and he has other TVs so I might be making another vid on this TV maybe playing GTA on it. Any ideas which GTA game I should play on this TV in the upcoming video?

This is a Polaroid LCD-2000 Flat Screen TV that a friend of mine brought over to fix and I tried to figure out whats wrong and it turns out that the power brick is dead. so I had this XBOX 360 power brick and turns out it also has 12 volts DC, I cut the cord off the dead power brick and wired it to the 360 brick and plugged it and my cable into the TV and as you can see the TV does work very well I was watching a little TV on it while it was hooked up. so I dunno what my friend wants to do with this TV we'll see what happens.

EDIT: the Power brick on the link I had up here sucks, the blue light on the TV flashes and the TV wont power up. so dont buy this brick if you have this TV, it sucks, use another power brick one with at least 10 amps of current or do this hack if you have a spare Xbox 360 power brick.

Well I hope you enjoy this vid. I will be posting it up on FixYa so the folks there can see it. please comment rate and sub. if you haven't and if you did already Thanks.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Polaroid
• LCD
• Liquid
• Crystal
• Display
• LCD-2000
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• TV
• 640x480
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• off
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• XBOX
• 360
• power
• brick
• 12VDC
• 16.5
• amps
• yt:quality=high

[HowToProductionsInc]

i got the same comcast thing florida lol

[coondogtheman1234]

@HowToProductionsInc

The DTA box? I hated those things, you could only get the signal thru the lossy RF connector and you couldnt capture the raw mpeg 2 stream. but its basically just a QAM tuner with upgradeable software.

[coondogtheman1234]

@VincentBProductions

Cool you mean like for a computer?

[coondogtheman1234]

@VincentBProductions

For me I didnt need the red and blue wires. But I left them exposed in case I had to touch em together but I havent had to do that. When I plug in the brick to the mains I hear a tiny spark from the AC plug (normal) that6 told me this thing was ready for action. I put my voltmeter on it and it said 11.9 or so volts so I took the cord off the old brick and wired it to this thing and plugged it into the TV and it came to life. I was stoked.

[coondogtheman1234]

@VincentBProductions

Funny my brick powers up when I plug it into the wall and the lights don't work on it but I don't care it runs my TV so I can play games. I do have the red and blue wires exposed just in case. what do those 2 wires do anyways? I don't know much on xbox 360s.

[coondogtheman1234]

@VincentBProductions

What do you mean? All this TV wanted was 12 volts DC and at least 6 amps. the Xbox 360 brick puts out almost 3 times what the TV wants and it's happy. still running strong. I imagine that you could run other 12V things you could even hook an accessory plug to it and charge your cell phone or ipod with it. I was going to build a 12V battery charger out of this brick until I acquired the TV. you could even run a car radio in the house off one of these.

[coondogtheman1234]

@Astalavista28

what's the voltage that's written on your old power brick to your TV? if its 12Volts DC then you can probably use one of these XBOX power bricks as long as it doesnt draw more amps than the brick can put out. the black is ground and the red or yellow is the positive (Mine was white and black).My XBOX brick puts out 16.5 amps which is more than twice the power the TV needs. my brick has a 3 conductor plug on it

[Astalavista28]

@ScottieNiven I have a power supply problem with my Polaroid FLM2601 hdtv. Using xbox 360 power brick the way you showed in the video, can I power up my TV? Another question, there is a cable going to the video board from power supply. How do you manage to make the connection between them when you used this technique?

[coondogtheman1234]

@ScottieNiven I dont have a need for that when I plug the brick in I got power. I dont need to do anything but that but I left the red and blue wires exposed in case it shuts off and I can just cross those 2. and my brick doesnt even have a fan b/c me being the curious george that takes things apart I took a peek inside and found no fan. how I got it open was I cut the middle out of a flathead bit to fit the screws on the brick then I replaced them with standard phillips.

[ScottieNiven]

@coondogtheman1234 In mine i disabled the protection circut, so it wont cut out, the light will go red then back to green. To do that you short it out, after it goes red remove the short and leave overnight, the brick will heat up and it will force itself to turn the fan on, and there you go.