• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know, I have a lot of old laptops with perfect screens, and usually some soldering dies first. My previous monitor’s inverter died, not the panel, it was perfect. Burn in is only a serious problem on oleds, rare on tft. Other parts will die before the screen in a car

    Modern analog speedometers are just small servos, displaying digital data from the computer, actually an lcd has far less parts, far fewer point of failures

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      apparently they use small stepper motors for the dials, it’s why there’s a homing sequence at the start (where all the dials go to 0)

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      Other parts will die before the screen in a car

      Yeah, your laptop ain’t gotta survive upwards of ~160 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit parked in the summertime sunlight. Heat not only kills babies and puppies, it also kills electronics…

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      2 days ago

      Also the old way with a cable was always fucking up and getting stuck or just being way off. Digital ftw.

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        Yup, has multiple 80s VWs that had broken speedos a one point or another, and US old cars tended to have fluttering wildly inaccurate speedometers too. Have had good results with most stepper motor based garages do far but most of them are under 12 years old that ive seen.