What is a Screen Inverter?
Laptop computers have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially with the increase in available Internet connections. They are small, portable, and powerful, using an liquid crystal display (LCD) screen attached to a compact computer body. To get the LCD screen functioning in a laptop while minimizing hardware and weight, a screen inverter is used to power the screen from the body of the computer. Powering a laptop LCD is the primary function of the screen inverter and as laptop technology improves, the inverter boards become smaller and of better quality. The screen inverter is a circuit board that passes the power current from the body of the laptop computer to the LCD, powering the backlight and allowing you to see the images on the screen. While a seemingly simple task, the screen inverter can be one of the most common items to fail in a laptop computer. When this happens, it is sometimes difficult to determine if the backlight is burned out in the LCD itself or if the
